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The World Is Open to Be Made

from What Cares I for Praise? by Trevor Felix

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The World Is Open to Be Made

Come up all you ones of every rank and station
Come and hear the proclamation
With quickened steps and deep determination
I tell you we shall cover this whole nation
They undertook impossible, a feat no one believed
But when it all was said and done the mountaintop it was achieved
History, it won’t wait
The world is open to be made
Lewis, Clark, and guide with babe
The world is open to be made

Summer heat still, not a single breeze
Ravens flyin’ overhead, locusts trillin’ in the trees
Two battle bands are stretched as far as eye can see
And out of the camp rides our general and he says,
“Let us charge now all together. It will be death for many men
But from the slaughter of your brother will come rebirth in violence.”
Storm the fortress crash the gate
The world is open to be made
Transformation, change of shape
The world is open to be made

Little prairie house weathered and worn
Underneath its roof a baby boy is being born
Destined for ignorance and growin’ up poor
He says to himself, “ I know there’s more.”
Leavin’ home with not a thing and hoppin’ on a train
He headed for the east coast to make himself a name
Déjà vu, forgotten fate
The world is open to be made
What I get I gotta take
The world is open to be made

August of ’63, a march upon the Capitol
Underneath a monument he stood upon the hill
With shakin’ speech the changin’ was filled
The sermon he spoke was delivered to chills
His voice is gone, his body’s past , his words and deeds are still alive
Time of hate is yet to pass, fear still blinds many eyes
Free at last, free at last,
Thank God almighty free at last
Once you break the chains of hate
The world is open to be made

21st century in these United States
For a little boy in the fifth grade it’s just another day
Then hi-jacked planes crashed into the World Trade
The buildings are gone but the memory won’t fade
Of open mouths cryin’ out and tears on every face
It became extremely clear that no one was safe
Planet Earth’s a crazy place
The world is open to be made
I gotta meet it face to face
The world is open to be made

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from What Cares I for Praise?, released June 1, 2014

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