C.S. Lewis Song by Brooke Fraser!

Aug 16, 2011 by Lancia E. Smith

Brooke Fraser is an exceptional song writer and singer whose music has been an inspiration to me for the past several weeks while editing and preparing images from the C.S. Lewis Foundation’s triennial Oxbridge conference. Good friend and Lewis scholar Andrew Lazo introduced this song to me while we were staying at The Kilns this year with other Foundation staff members before Oxbridge began. From the moment I heard it I was enchanted.

The lyrics are superb and are based on C.S Lewis’s famous quote in Mere Christianity which reads in full this way:

“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and help others do the same.” This is one of my most cherished quotes by Lewis and equally deeply shared beliefs. I have it framed in my own home as a daily reminder of this truth.

Brooke’s lyrics read as follows and I love every word!

If I find in myself
Desires nothing in this world can satisfy
I can only conclude
That I, I was not made for here

If the flesh that I fight
Is at best only light and momentary
Then of course, I’ll feel nude
When to where I’m destined I’m compared

[Chorus]
Speak to me in the light of the dawn
Mercy comes with the mornin’
I will sigh and with all creation groan
As I wait for hope to come for me

Am I lost or just less found
On the straight or on the roundabout of the wrong way
Is this a soul that stirs in me
Is it breaking free, wanting to come alive

‘Cos my comfort would prefer for me to be numb
And avoid the impending birth of who I was born to become

Speak to me in the light of the dawn
Mercy comes with the mornin’
I will sigh and with all creation groan
As I wait for hope to come for me

For we
We are not long here
Our time is but a breath
So we better breathe it
And I
I was made to live
I was made to love
I was made to know you

Hope
Is comin’ for me
Hope
Is comin’ for me
Hope
Is comin’ for me
Hope
He’s comin’

Speak to me in the light of the dawn
Mercy comes with the mornin’, mornin’
I will sigh and with all creation groan
As I wait for hope to come for me, for me, for me, for me…

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