From the recording What I Heard, What I Saw
"What I Heard, What I Saw" was born from nearly a decade of wrestling with, and re-discovering, some of the stories which fed Kristen’s youth. Pulled from the pages of the gospel of Mark, these songs render flesh and bone, ache and longing to the outcasts, prophets and would-be followers that inhabit those ancient stories. More than that, the album is a confessional: a candid retelling of Kristen’s own journey stumbling through hard questions towards faith, finding meaning in the grit and dust of roads unknown. Collaborating with award-winning producer/guitarist Murray Pulver (The Bros. Landreth, Steve Bell, Red Moon Road), Kristen offers a folk meditation on these challenging narratives which have informed deep conviction and creativity among the religious and non-religious alike for generations.
Lyrics
Are you ready for the sun?
Or were you sleeping on your own?
I had hoped to be the one to raise these bones
Have you heard the stories child?
Did you learn to write your own?
Would you tell it to your children as they get grown?
Here by the river
I’ll stand my ground
And down in the water
I will be found
Sure as the Jordan rolls
Sure as the Jordan rolls on
So you’re ready for new day come
For every mountain to come on down
And for the fire that’s burning up your sacred town
Here by the river
I’ll stand my ground
And down in the water
I will be found
Sure as the Jordan rolls
Sure as the Jordan rolls on
Come let the waters lift up your head
All you you lofty ones, be laid low
Let the valleys raise a highway headed home