Never Before Music and lyrics by Deanna Witkowski as appears on the 2009 sacred jazz recording, From This Place SSA a cappella (with piano reduction) Duration: 3’05” In the traditional service of lessons and carols, each passage of scripture is followed by a musical response. This three-part women's a cappella piece was composed for just such a service at All Angels’ Church (NYC) in 1998, as a response to the story in which an angel announces to Mary that she will bear the Christ child.
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Never Before The angel said the Lord is with me: The Lord is with me in a way he’s never been before; His Spirit is my lover, his son shall fill my womb With holiness and joy And with life that I can feel kicking at my insides. The Lord will stay with me in a way he’s never stayed before; He will suckle at my breast and let me hold him in my arms. He will run to me when he cuts his finger Or wonders aloud at his Father’s creation in a brightly colored butterfly. Oh, who is this child Lord who comes from up above, Whose eyes will look beyond my own to a destiny I do not know? Oh, who is this God boy whose hands shall clasp mine And whose tears I shall wipe away with trembling fingers of my own? The Lord will leave me in a way he’s never left before; As a king whose time has come, as a son his mother loved, As a boy whose laughter has filled my heart And as a baby whose tears I have cried as if they were my own. The angel said the Lord is with me.
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