An amazingly beautiful song

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Ben Harper....Blessed to be a Witness. This totally has changed how my mind has understoon what the word witness means. I've always associated it with the way evangelicals use it. I think that with faith being something that some people are not sure of and that some people are not sure whether or not there is a God or if Jesus was real, Ben here is saying that he is so lucky to know for sure. For whatever reason he does know in his mind that there is a God and he feels blessed to be so sure. Anyway, that's how I see the song. It's on Diamons on the Inside. Give it a spin.


Corcovado parted the sky
And through the darkness on us he shined
Crucified in stone
Still his blood is my own

Glory behold all my eyes
Have seen
Have seen

I am blessed to be a witness

Some have flown away
And can't be with us here today
Like the hills of my home
Some have crumbled and now are gone

Gather around for today
Won't come again
Won't come again

I am blessed to be a witness

So much sorrow and pain
But still I will not live in vain
Like a question never asked
Is wisdom waisted on the past

Only by the grace of God
Go I
Go I

I am blessed to be a witness