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Sleep in Heavenly Peace
02:16
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It’s Christmas time
It’s a new start
Remove the snow
Mend the broken hearts
That still lay awake from the year before
Thinking softly, tired and worn
It’s Christmas time
The lights are hung
They blink in beat
No end to what's begun
The songs are here
They’re singing now
Of Christ the babe and his family
Silent night, holy night
All is calm, all is bring
Virgin mother and a child
Holy infant, tender and mild
Sleep in heavenly peace
Covered with blankets deep under the snow
Open your heart to the silence below
Take up your spirit and lay it here
We’ll sleep away the rest of the year
Sleep Sleep, In heavenly Peace
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The Spider's Star
02:10
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After two gruesome years
Pale and austere
I’m humming the old refrains
With half a heart
They just don’t ring out the same
Ornaments crowd the tree
Strings of lights brazenly
Illumine my eyes
When the quiet finds me
I see
A Christmas Star
Not formed by human hands
She’s building a home
Silver and frail
Weaving a wordless prayer
Changing the death of the old
Into brutal, glorious life
The spider hangs her star
Spin a web
A minaret
A transient
Hiding place
A monument
To impermanence
This ornament
Of lace
Her silent dance
Her violent plans
Obedient
All her days
This poetry
This song I weave
So feebly
I raise
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Faithful Strangers
01:44
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It's a long time waiting for a sign
And it gets cold on starry nights
But wait and see what God can do
Those faithful strangers in the east
They lived their lives like they're the least
They walked for years just to see
Jesus born into this world
Mary blessed A plan unfurled
To give us hope and joy renewed
Are they long gone now? It seems
That they’ve been turned into a theme
A song for all of us to sing
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before the sun begins to rise
the inner way make straight -
unbending seem the days sometimes -
this agonizing wait -
it is the dark, the time of dark,
no sleepers are awaking -
my crooked heart is cavernous,
the space is for the taking
and must i be the jailer
of my own imprisoned world?
can there be a day I’ll see
the flag of hope unfurled?
sweep clean the upper room within
without the world knowing -
for in a womb, the uncontained,
the seed of God is growing -
he seeks a yes, would grant a no,
but will not brook a maybe -
infinite gravity, infinite light
in the finite weight of a baby
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The Visitation
02:22
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Blessed are you who are highly favoured
The Lord is with you
My soul magnifies the Lord
And my spirit rejoices in God
For he has regarded my lowly state
And generations will call me blessed
For he has done great things for me
Blessed are you who are highly favoured
The Lord is with you
He is merciful throughout generations
With his strength, he scatters the proud
He lifts the humble and brings down the mighty
He fills the hungry and sends away the rich
And remembers his servant, Israel
Blessed are you who are highly favoured
The Lord is with you
Ave, María, grátia plena,
Dóminus tecum.
Magnificat anima mea Dominum
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All Together Now New York
Simple fun Christmas music with friends for everyone!
All Together Now recommends:
Songs For Christmas Time
by Lowland Hum
It's a great selection of songs from two great people. Their harmonies really bring it home. We listen to it at every Christmas get-together.
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Songs for Christmas
by Sufjan Stevens
There is too much to be said about this album. Let it suffice that our Christmas project may not have happened if it weren't for this collection.
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The Light Came Down
by Josh Garrels
I remember the excitement among our group when we heard Josh Garrels released a Christmas album. Well, that original hype did not burn out. After many listens, we still love this Christmas album.
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by Lambs & Wolves
Charming German indie pop with the keen melodic sensibilities and melancholic undercurrent of some of the style's best practitioners.
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Virtual Heaven
by Infinity Crush
Despite its themes of isolation and loneliness, Caroline White's latest batch of folk-pop confessionals is an LP brimming with confidence.
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