Name: Listening Now
Duration: P00H04M12S
Description: Listening Now “describes a war that’s just ended and destroyed everything in its way, and I am left standing among the ashes,” he says. It examines how “the spiritual path can be tricky, and you have to find out how to really listen intentionally” to God.

Listening Now

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Listening Now “describes a war that’s just ended and destroyed everything in its way, and I am left standing among the ashes,” he says. It examines how “the spiritual path can be tricky, and you have to find out how to really listen intentionally” to God.

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Hands are up, lay my weapons down
In the carnage of the battleground
There’re no heroes anymore
White as smoke, black as ash
It’s so clear in the aftermath
But all is fair in love and war

Through my heart, through my veins
It’s a language that I can’t explain
But I’m starting to make it out
Words of love, words of hope
Though they go unspoken
And I couldn’t hear them then, didn’t know how
But I’m listening now

Silence sinks into the eastern sun
Echoes call across the canyon
But bloodshed makes for hallowed ground
When you swing the sword, you have to follow through
Feed the fire though it’s burning you
Can’t be stopped till it dies out

There’s no way of knowing till you do

Through my heart, through my veins
It’s a language that I can’t explain
But I’m starting to make it out
Words of love, words of hope
Though they go unspoken
And I couldn’t hear them then, didn’t know how
But I’m listening now

CHORUS

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from Listening Now, released December 10, 2016
Owen Kortz & Kaia Nutting

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Owen Kortz Denver, Colorado

Owen Kortz is an award-winning songwriter from Denver, Colorado. He is a founding member of the Singer/Songwriter Program and LYNX National Arts and Media Camps at the University of Colorado at Denver, where he is on faculty.

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