Prayer Cycle torrent

Jonathan Elias' "Prayer Cycle"

Featured performers: Alanis Morissette, Salif Keita, Richard Bona, Yungchen Lhamo, Perry Farrell, The American Boychoir, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Mah Damba, James Taylor, John Williams, Ofra Haza, Linda Ronstadt, The English Chamber Orchestra & Chorus

Track Listing:
Movement I: Mercy
Movement II: Strength
Movement III: Hope
Movement IV: Compassion
Movement V: Grace
Movement VI: Innocence
Movement VII: Forgiveness
Movement VIII: Benediction
Movement IX: Faith

A few of my favorite lyrics:

1. Mercy
We have slaughtered
In the garden of beauty
Digging graves instead of planting
Mercy for the crucified
A bitter justice
Begging eternity for love

We're nothing
We're everything

I am nothing
Yet I am everybody

We're nothing
And yet we are

Wisdom lights up life's road

I know you




2. Innocence
They sleep in darkness
In cooled oxygen structures
Invisible
Limitless

They lay awake waiting
in smooth concrete beds
Uranium fed.

My children are still sleeping
from here

I once believed in natural law
before the silos

I once believed in all that is holy
Before the silos
Before the trinity

Dark night of the soul
Forgive us, that we did not
understand.




3. Faith
My unborn forgive me
I only wish I had the strength to bring
you into this world
more faithful.