HOLY NOW

When I was a kid/ each week/
Sunday we would go to church/

Listen to the preacher speak/
He would read the holy word/

Consecrate the holy bread/

Everyone would kneel and bow/

Today the only difference is/

Everything is holy now/
Everything/ everything/ everything is holy now.

Sitting back in Sunday School/
We would hear about the time/

Moses split the sea in two/

Jesus made the water wine/

Used to make me sad to know/

That miracles don't happen still/

But now I see them everywhere I go/

'Cause everything's a miracle/

Everything/ everything/ everything's a miracle.

Wine from water is not so small/

But an even greater miracle/

Is that anything is here at all/

So, the challenging thing becomes/

Not looking for the miracles/

But finding where there isn't one.

When holy water was rare at best/

It barely wet my fingertips/

But now I have to hold my breath/

'Cause I'm swimming in a sea of it/

Then my world was in the lost-and-found/

Heaven's second-rate hand-me-downs/

But now I'm walking on sacred ground/

'Cause everything is holy now/

Everything/ everything/ everything is holy now.

Read a questioning child's face/

To say it's not a testament/

Well that'd be mighty hard to say/

See another new morning come/

To say it's not a sacrament/

I'll tell you that it can't be done.

This morning I walked outside/

Saw a little red-wing bird/

Shining like a burning bush/

Singing like a scripture verse/

Made me want to bow my head/

I remebered back when church let out/

But so much has changed since then/

Everything is holy now/

Everything/ everything/ everything is holy now/

Everything/ everything/ everything is holy now.

Peter Mayer
Recorded by David Wilcox ("Live at Workplay Theater")

http://www.davidwilcox.com/