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Gloria

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Christmas Eve when I was four years old, I had a dream that my father and I were in my wealthy great-uncle's giant mansion. He had an escalator inside, and my father was sucked inside and died. I woke up and ran to the living room, where he and my mother were wrapping all of the presents labeled "from Santa." And yet, that crushing blow to my belief in Santa Claus was overshadowed by my great relief.

I see a lot of that same bittersweetness in the story of the Incarnation. This is a song about that.

Recorded live at UpState for their 2017 Christmas series.

lyrics

In the dead of night I could not sleep
I watched you die in a waking dream
I ran outside saw you by the tree
Was no man in red there with gifts for me

Peace on the earth
Goodwill to all
Oh Son of God,
Make all things whole

In the dead of night, shepherds watch their sheep
Pagans trace the star chasing what they've seen

Peace on the earth, goodwill to all
Oh Son of God, make all things whole

Gloria

Peace on the earth, goodwill to all
Oh Son of God, make all things whole
Hope on the earth, goodwill to all
Oh Son of God, make all things whole

In the dead of night, as the whole earth sleeps
The Son of God comes to save all things

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released December 18, 2018
Engineered and mixed by Adam Raschka

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NTVTY South Bend, Indiana

South Bend Post folk from SPACESHIPS' Nathaniel FitzGerald. Hushed, ambient music for thinking about dying.

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