Kind Word- 2020 (Bedroom Demo #204) (Patreon)

Kind Word

from the album Avocado Faultline

Words & Music by Terry Scott Taylor
©2000 Zoom Daddy Music (BMI)

Chorus:
Kind word
Lookin' for a kind word in a
dark world
under a mean spell
The golden rule is
you get what you give
So I'll wish you well
Make sure you have heard
a kind word
Kind word

I know it isn't much
but a blade of grass
can crack the pavement
And if enough of us
would go against the grain
in time we'd be a green field
dressed in God's own
finest raiment
soakin' up the sunshine
and laughing in the rain

(Chorus)

I see the cardboard boxes,
the fragile houses of the lost
I see the endless line of crosses
carved by hands of hate and war
I see the broken children
fists of blinding rage
have tossed us
Can we start with just
this little thing
that may lead to something more?

(Chorus)

They say a single prayer
can move a mountain
and I know a little faith
can turn the tide
The need to love
and to be loved
can soon become a fountain
that forms a river flowin'
deep and wide

What will it take to free us
from distant hearts
and downcast eyes
To see the face of Jesus
in a stranger on the street?
Who will water seeds of holiness
In someone we've despised
Will heaven tell
ours were the words
that washed His hands and feet?

(Chorus)

guitar and vocals: T.S. Taylor

note:

Even though it was written well before social media name calling and vitriolic public discourse had become as lethally pandemic as COVID-19, ‘Kind Word’ seems to me to be even more relevant in regard to our current difficulties. I would argue that while COVID-19 is capable of killing the body, it is hatred which has the power to kill the soul, and it is this existential threat which we should most fear. There is no need to belabor the song’s message here; it’s plain and simple: Be kind, gracious, and empathetic to others, which is another way of saying “love your neighbor as you love yourself,” including your enemies.