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lyrics

JACOB’S WRESTLE

I’m wrestling in this dusty place
A moonless night – can’t see your face
I’ve no idea who you might be
And what it is you want from me
I fight so hard - I fight so long
This wretched night goes on and on

You see I’ve always won my whole life through
But now I meet my match in you
And then something new, you’ve wounded me
And turn around as if to flee

And dawn has come and now I see
No normal man fights here with me
And so I beg for you to stay
To bless me here at break of day

Your look cuts to the heart of me
You seem to like what you can see
You like my restless mind, you like my strong desire
You like all of my smarts – all of my fire

What’s done is done you will not stay
With my true name I limp away
All that I am you turn it to
This larger life you call me to
And now I bless that dusty place
Where I once saw my true love’s face

Things that are lighter, things that are clearer
Don’t have the power of that perplexing night
Worth every second of that long dark struggle
To find myself clasping and clasped by light

With less of me there’s more of you
But more of you makes more of me

Things that are lighter … things that are lighter

Celia Kemp/John Coleman © 2018

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from STONES THAT SING, released June 26, 2020
Scott Targett keyboards
Al Future harmony vocals
John Coleman lead and harmony vocals, acoustic guitar

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John Coleman Hobart, Australia

John Coleman is an Australian singer/songwriter in the acoustic folk/rock tradition who has produced eleven albums of original songs The most recent is Falling Into Light - a collection of songs for meditation - his final collaboration with Noel Davis. Many of John’s songs are inspired by and explore the spirituality of the L’Arche and Quaker communities to which he belongs. ... more

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