Blind Eyes (Mark 4:24-25)
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Who’s the Lord of creation?
What’s the hope of salvation?
Why then flow with the mainstream
Despising the dream?
There’s a haze across your horizon:
Whispered echoes from Eden;
No one seems to know wrong from right,
So how they should fight,
Sound asleep in the light!
Blind eyes, hastening from the battle,
Blind eyes, drifting through the day;
How can your lamp that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale? Blind eyes!
Why surrender your talent
Safely under the pavement?
Warriors shall receive so much more
On heavenly shores.
He who strives to furnish true freedom
Wholly seeking God’s kingdom
Reconstructs broken schemes of man
Wherever he can,
So fulfilling God’s plan!
Blind eyes, hastening from the battle,
Blind eyes, happy to sleep all day;
How can your lamp that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale? Blind eyes!
Lyrics: Steve Layfield (freely reconstructed from ‘Bright Eyes’ by Mike Batt in 1978)
