God Laughs Songtext
von Joe Henry

I′ve torn a page from a fallen white sail
I've drawn a map of the world
While legend and key take the measure of me
And flag I knit to unfurl
My head in my hand, my back to the land
I step out on the sea and slip under
And God laughs herself into thunder

The stain of the sky has bled to my hands
A tear moving through a hard letter
The words coming free to conspire with me
A story I know I′d tell better
Opening frames, uncoupling names
I rearrange all to my vision
And God laughs herself beyond reason


Now, who gave the dark such power to sing?
The black bird in the heart taking over
It came through a door that's locked and secure
To scare up a song in my lover
I've built a wall, as if it was all
I needed to hold back the hour
And God throws a laugh from her tower

Oh, soon may it come, the surrender to only this love
And all of its terror
May we be consumed by the mystery, this room
And the fire can only make clearer
Oh, may we come clean with all that we mean
And all that we need now to see through
And may God laugh with you, see you as true
And may God see herself within me too