Look Closely // Episode 1 from Cody Tragesser on Vimeo.

The first installment of Look Closely – A celebration of the lunar elements in culture.

Very, very grateful for Cody Tragesser’s efforts here.

Some clarifying comments on the 1st episode:

- “God … who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.” (1 Tim. 6:17)

- The fundamental question in “In the End” is “There’s nothing more to life than love, is there?”

- In 1 Corinthians, Paul says: “When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.” (1 Cor. 13:11) The song’s lyrics are: “Have we put these childish things away?”

Producer: Cody Tragesser

Director: S.G.R. Webster

Production Assistant: Hannah Webster

Transcript.

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Flood Waters

Higher than the yonder mountain and deeper than the sea
From the breadth of the east unto the west
Is the love that started with a seed

Stronger than the wildest horses and the rising tide
The chords of death hung so heavy round our necks
Will be left at the great divide

Flood waters rise, but it won’t wash away
Love never dies, it will hold on more fierce than graves

Farther than the pale moon rises upon the open plains
Past the time of the longest blood line
There shines an immortal flame

Somewhere in between forever and the passing days
There’s a place moth and rust cannot lay waste
This is grace, the face of love

Flood waters rise, but it won’t wash away
Love never dies, it will hold on more fierce than graves

- Josh Garrels

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It’s the price I guess
for the lies I’ve told
that the truth, it no longer thrills me

Why can’t we laugh,
when it’s all we have?
Have we put these childish things away?
Have we lost the magic that we once had?

In the end, in the end, there’s nothing more to life than love, is there?

In the end, in the end, it’s time for us to lose our weary minds.

Will you dance with me,
like we use to dance,
and remember how to move together.
You are the torch,
and it all makes sense.

I’ve waited here for you forever
I’ve waited here for you forever

In the end, in the end, there’s nothing more to life than love, is there?

In the end, in the end, it’s time for us to lose our weary minds.

We’re lost ’til we learn how to ask.
We’re lost ’til we learn how to ask.
We are lost’til we learn how to ask.

So please, please, just ask.

In the end, in the end, there’s nothing more to life than love, is there?

In the end, in the end, it’s time for us to lose our weary minds.

There’s nothing more to life than love, is there?

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Walking along the high tide-line
Watching the pacific from the side-lines
I wonder what it means to live together
Looking for more than just guide-lines

Looking for signs in the night sky
Wishing that i wasn’t such a nice guy
I wonder what it means to live forever
I wonder what it means to die

I know that there is meaning to it all
A little resurrection everytime i fall
You’ve got your babies, i’ve got my hearses
Every blessing comes with a set of curses
I’ve got my vices, i’ve got my vice verses
I’ve got my vice verses….

The wind could be my new obsession
The wind could be my next depression
The wind goes anywhere it wants to
Wishing that i learned my lesson

The ocean sounds like a garage band
Coming at me like a drunk man
The ocean tells me a thousand stories
None of them are lies

I know that there is meaning to it all
A little resurrection everytime i fall
You’ve got your babies, i’ve got my hearses
Every blessing comes with a set of curses
I’ve got my vices, i’ve got my vice verses
I’ve got my vice verses….

Let the pacific laugh
Be on my epitaph
With these rising and falling
And after all,
It’s just water and i am just soul
With a body of water and bone
Water and bone….

Where is god in the night sky?
Where is god in the city light?
Where is god in the earthquake?
Where is god in the genocide?

Where are you in my broken heart?
Everything seems to fall apart
Everything feels rusted over
Tell me that you’re there

I know that there is meaning to it all
A little resurrection everytime i fall
You’ve got your babies, i’ve got my hearses
Every blessing comes with a set of curses
I’ve got my vices, i’ve got my vice verses
I’ve got my vice verses….

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Standing knee-deep in cold water, swiftly moving
Somehow I knew I lost something

Waiting waist-deep I saw a book there, in the river
Waiting for me to find it there
I tried to read it, neck deep, treading water
The tide pulled me out to sea

Then with water in my eyes
The words began to rise from their place
They were beautiful and dread
I reached for them and fed on each phrase
They were honey on my lips
Then a bitter twist in my side
I knew they’d lay me in my grave
“Is there no one who could save me?” I cried
Sinking down deep through cold water and heavy silence
Shadows stirring in the gloom
What things lay sleeping down deep in the darkness?
Woke then to find me in my tomb

Then with water in my eyes
The words began to rise from their place
They were beautiful and dread
I reached for them and fed on each phrase
They were honey on my lips
Then a bitter twist in my side
I knew they’d lay me in my grave
“Is there no one who could save me?” I cried

And when I lost all hope to look
Someone took that heavy book from my hands
All its weight they set aside
After they had satisfied its demands
I felt white and black reverse
And the lifting of a curse from my heart
Then like one receiving sight
I beheld a brilliant light in the dark

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