Kalmar's Song

from Shaping Season, Vol. 1 by Benjamin Daniel

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lyrics

Maker, please
Is there still time for redemption?
She still sings
And I can hear her words echo through my heart
I sang them back to keep from being torn apart
But it changed the structure of my very bones
A wolf surfaces from the seeds I’ve sown
Like some twisted inversion of spring, it grows
I cannot run, I cannot rise above
I was a son
Oh! I was king and I was loved!

Someone, please!
Someone please change me back
I can’t leave
I can’t leave everything I lack
I wear it on my body now
Fur and fangs and claws come out
My own brother might become a crime scene
Everyone just keep away from me
Just keep away from me
Just keep away from me

Did you see the cloven
Did you tend to his wounds?
Would you have had compassion if you’d not known the tomb?
I know your heart is fraught with fear and violent shame
Still royal blood abides in there
Remember your name
What you see in the mirror is a temporal skin
And greater is the Maker than the monster within
4am, the chicken pen, the blood in your fangs
He saw and knew you even then
Your path is the same
And home cannot be redefined, whatever you bring
His kingdom isn’t fazed by you, so you’re still a king
We all are heirs and monsters in the tempter’s wake
But God will make a flourish of whatever he breaks

Remember your name
Remember your name
Remember your name
Remember your name

Behold, the Maker’s greatest pleasure!
You are loved beyond all measure

credits

from Shaping Season, Vol. 1, released April 17, 2020
Benjamin Daniel - Vocals, acoustic guitar, piano
Allen Odell - Production, keys, BGVs

Lyrics and story adapted from the book "The Monster in the Hollows" by Andrew Peterson

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