I CAN KEEP THE PEACE NO MORE

This original composition was written in one inspired hour on a winter's afternoon in 2008, while listening to Blood On The Tracks. Sung from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, the song contains dozens of scriptural references. (If you're into that sorta thing...)

Verse 1
Forty days of desert: Matthew 4:1-2
Forty days of flood: Genesis 7:12
An ocean made of sand: Exodus 14:21-22
A promise made of blood: Exodus 12:23
We gave it all away for something more: Mark 1:18

Verse 2
Yearning for someone to come and make the part a whole: Psalm 22

Verse 3
Lead me through the wilderness: Numbers 32:13
Tell me you’re The King of Everything, The Chosen One: Luke 10:16, Luke 22:70, John 3:13, John 8:12, John 8:58, John 10:11, John 14:6

Verse 4
Another day of famine: Mark 6:8
Another day of feast: Luke 9:14
Another day of wise men looking for you: Matt 2:1, John 3:1-21, Matt 16:1-4,

Verse 5
My sword is in my scabbard: Luke 22:36
You are getting lost amongst the poor: Matt 14:14-15, Mar 5:31

Verse 6
Walking on the water: Matt 14:25
Drowning in the land: Matt 13:2
Introduce the tax man to whore: Luke 7:34

Verse 7
Treasure in the soil: Matt 13:44
Camel through the eye: Mark 10:25
Handshake in a temple: Luke 22:4
Lover’s kiss goodbye: Mark 14:45
Bring not peace to me, just bring a sword: Matt 10:34

Verse 8
Cursed is the man who hangs from a tree: Deut 21:23
Thirty coins to buy a man a life of slavery: Exodus 21:32, Zechariah 11:12-13
A symphony of silver on the floor: Matt 27:5

Verse 9
One sun is a-rising, one son is betrayed: Mark 15:25
One son flees the crowd to find a quiet tree with shade / Tie that rope to hold me: Matt 27:5

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