The Song Passion 2012 Missed Out On...or...An Anthem For the Church

Yesterday David Crowder*Band released their final album as a band, a massive two-disc, 34 track offering based on the format of a requiem mass and having an equally long title: "Give Us Rest (a requiem in the key of C [the happiest of all keys])."  Stylistically it is somewhat disjointed (like blind men describing an elephant, listening to one track does not give you an idea of what style of music the whole is) however together they present one giant work that extolls the greatness of God, his mercy, his grace, and his glory.

For me personally, after 24 hours with the album and a couple listen-throughs there is one track that jumps out and really resonates with me: "After All (Holy)."

Listening to it's driving rhythm and soaring choruses it got me thinking a little bit...At the Passion 2012 conference they had 45,000 college students gathered in the Georgia Dome for the purpose of lifting high the name of Jesus.  They had some gifted speakers and some incredibly talented musicians, including the David Crowder*Band, who played their last concert and last set together during one of the sessions.

To close out their last set DC*B played a new song that isn't off of Give Us Rest, but rather another great track that I look forward to hearing on the upcoming Passion 2012 album.  But instead of that song could you imagine hearing 45,000 college students singing "After All (Holy)," belting out "Ho------oh-oh-oh------oh-oh-oh-----oh-oh-ly" in unison?

But as mightily awesome as that praise would be, imagine if this became an anthem for the heart of the Church, praising God along with the angels in his throne room who day and night cry out "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord almighty!  The whole earth is filled with his glory!"  What if the Church saw a renewed sense of awe in, an awakening toward, and a longing for the greatness and glory and holiness of God that ignites a fire in our hearts, puts a song (like this one) on our tongues, and puts movement to our hands and feet to reach out so that others could also be brought into the knowledge of the glory of God?

Because while the words are short and simple, the implications for a people who wholeheartedly believe and proclaim them are not...


Lyrics:
I can't comprehend
Your infinitely beautiful and perfect love
Oh I've dreamed dreams
Of majesty as brilliant as a billion stars
But they're never bright enough
After all, You are...

Holy
Oh Holy
Holy, Holy, Holy

I will sing a song for you
My God with everything I have in me
But it's never loud enough
After all, You are...

Holy
Oh Holy
Holy, Holy, Holy

Heaven and earth are full, full of your glory, glory
My soul it overflows, full of your glory, glory
Oh blessed is he who reigns, full of your glory, your glory
My cup, it can't contain all of your glory, your glory
Hosanna we are found,
After all, you are...


Holy
Oh Holy
Holy, Holy, Holy

I can't comprehend
You're infinitely beautiful