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The Forgetting Part

from Love & Justice EP by Taryn Chase Hofert

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This is one song I wasn't sure fit on this album, but I knew I needed to record it. I wrote it a few months before we started recording the album- I had been mulling over the topic of grace quite a bit.
In the midst of writing this song, I had the opportunity to listen to a great author/speaker, Rob Bell, talk about the story of The Prodigal Son. He talked about the fact that it was completely culturally unacceptable for the father of the Prodigal Son to run down the street to greet his son. At that moment, I knew what the bridge of this song had to be.
God's grace is culturally unacceptable. His mercy is inexplicable. His forgiveness is other-worldly. I am not sure if it's necessarily a corporate worship song, but for me, recording this song was one of the most worshipful experiences I've had in the past year.
So, thank you, God - for sweeping me off my feet...daily. Thanks Rob for being the mouthpiece of such incredible insight. I've always loved Michiganders.

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The forgetting part’s the hardest part to get/There is no escaping the tapes inside my head/They say “you’ll never change,you’ll always be the same”/just another day to replay/You can’t see the cloud affixed above my head/I take it everywhere my hovering regret/Oh, for just a day to escape its shadow cast/To reconcile with myself at last/The way I live is almost as if I’m out for revenge against myself//chorus This is love-to be seen for who you are not what you were/This is grace-to be held as though you never made mistakes/This is You-drowning me in Your forgiveness//Like a broken record, it haunts me/Like a tape in my head, it taunts me/Like a knife in my heart, it’s tearing me apart-wounding daily/Then in my frailty//You come, You run/ into the middle of the street-You embrace me//You lift the needle from my record/In the silence I can hear /Your voice singing in my ear//This is love-I see you for who you are not what you were/This is grace-let me hold you all your past has been erased/This is me dancing with you in forgiveness

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from Love & Justice EP, track released December 18, 2010
written by Taryn Hofert
©2010 Dreams & Bones (ASCAP) All rights reserved.

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