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Holy Darkness

EnglishComposer: Dan Schutte

Inspired by St. John of the Cross

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Song details

Liturgical use
communionothers
Musical form
hymn

Intro: G - D/F# - Em - Em7/D - F - Am - Dsus - D

                G      D/F#         Em   Em7/D
REF:      Holy darkness,   blessed night,

                    C      D              Gsus  G
          Heaven's answer hidden from our sight.

             G/F#  Em    Em7/D          C     C/B        Am7       D   Gsus G
          As we  await You,   O God of silence,   we embrace Your holy night.


           D            D/F#        Em              E                   Am Am7/G
1. I have tried you in fires of affliction; I have taught your soul to grieve.

           D     D/C          G/B   Em    C             Am      Dsus D
   In the barren soil of your loneliness, there will I plant My seed.


2. I have taught you the price of compassion; you have stood before the grave.
   Though My love can seem like a raging storm, this is the love that saves.


3. Were you there when I raised up the mountains? Can you guide the morning star?
   Does the hawk take flight when you give command? Why do you doubt My pow'r?


            Cdim    B7      Em               C         D       Bm   Em
4. In your deepest hour of darkness, I will give you wealth untold.

             Cdim    B7          Em              FM7    Am       Dsus  D
   When the silence stills your spirit, will My riches fill your soul.


(same chords as v.4)

5. As the watchman waits for morning, and the bride awaits her groom,
   So we wait to hear Your footsteps, as we rest beneath Your moon.

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