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By request from an old friend. I wrote this song in a 20th century philosophy class while my mind wandered into theological topics. 1996. Originally recorded with my band IF in 1998. This version w/Misses and Mystery (that's my wife Eshinee singing the parts) in 2002. My friend Marco Klaue rode his bike down from Vancouver (to Seattle) to play flute. You can hear us teasing him in the background at the beginning and ending of the song.
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Lyrics
I have seen the sunset
flash green through sunset sea.
I have seen the spinning atom
and the galaxy.
I’ve walked barefoot through the Amazon,
touched a rainbow centipede.
Seen the work of a God who sees us
in ancient stone cathedrals,
and stained glass in the sand,
in monuments and pedestals
and what man has made of man;
every documentary
and every book I understand
brings me back to a God who receives us.
Chorus
So I keep coming back, keep coming back
I keep coming back to Jesus.
I keep coming back, keep coming back
I keep coming back to Jesus.
I don’t know how Jesus wept
or understand why he prayed,
I don’t know the why of angels
or how a death can save,
I don’t know why I want
or I give what I gave,
but I don’t believe a God who deceives us.
I can ask the why of church
when philosophers disagree
on the puzzle of the parables;
they make vain degrees,
say the psychologists tell us
it’s a numbing fantasy,
but I keep coming back,
I keep coming back
(chorus)
I’m feeling I’m finding future shock,
wisdom out of babes,
with a joystick science,
shooting down the aged,
seeing only simple words
flying across the page,
and all this is supposed to free us.
The medium is the message,
divine communication cool,
something about eternity
and a golden rule;
the medium is the message—
at a throne they say he’ll rule,
so I keep coming back, I keep coming back
(chorus x2)
flash green through sunset sea.
I have seen the spinning atom
and the galaxy.
I’ve walked barefoot through the Amazon,
touched a rainbow centipede.
Seen the work of a God who sees us
in ancient stone cathedrals,
and stained glass in the sand,
in monuments and pedestals
and what man has made of man;
every documentary
and every book I understand
brings me back to a God who receives us.
Chorus
So I keep coming back, keep coming back
I keep coming back to Jesus.
I keep coming back, keep coming back
I keep coming back to Jesus.
I don’t know how Jesus wept
or understand why he prayed,
I don’t know the why of angels
or how a death can save,
I don’t know why I want
or I give what I gave,
but I don’t believe a God who deceives us.
I can ask the why of church
when philosophers disagree
on the puzzle of the parables;
they make vain degrees,
say the psychologists tell us
it’s a numbing fantasy,
but I keep coming back,
I keep coming back
(chorus)
I’m feeling I’m finding future shock,
wisdom out of babes,
with a joystick science,
shooting down the aged,
seeing only simple words
flying across the page,
and all this is supposed to free us.
The medium is the message,
divine communication cool,
something about eternity
and a golden rule;
the medium is the message—
at a throne they say he’ll rule,
so I keep coming back, I keep coming back
(chorus x2)
Cori Ander
A good production. Sounds also like very interesing lyrics which I would
want to be able to read. Even if the singers are pronouncing the lyrics
quite clear here, there are lots that I can't hear because I am not a native
english speaker, (I may even have to look up some terms in a dictionary).
It would be interesting to be able to read the lyrics and then I would be
able to also comment that part of the song.