Folk & Field | A Musical Study on Community & the Kingdom of GodSample

BROTHER’S BLOOD

Lyrics:

I was sleeping in the garden when I heard her call my name

In her eyes a stranger’s fire burned a wicked flame

So I took her hand, and we took a bite

And we sealed our brothers’ fate that night.

Blood, blood my brothers’ blood it covers my hands.

Me, I had an evil father, my blood was poison from the start. 

And I was jealous of my brother. Pride and hatred filled my heart

So I took his hand and I took my knife, now his blood condemns my guilty life.

Blood, blood my brother’s blood, it covers my hands.

I was murdered by my brothers. They hated me.

See, their blood had made them killers their whole family. 

So they took my hands and they took my blood, when they hung me on a cross of wood.

Blood, blood my brothers, it covers your hands.

But rather than cursing them for their murderous choice 

the innocence of my blood speaks a louder, pardoning voice. 

For I gave my life willingly. I gave my love by choice

When I took my hands and I took my blood, and I covered up, 

I covered up

yes, I gave my body, I gave my blood, to cover up, to cover up

Blood! Blood! My brothers! blood!

It covers you, it covers you!

Blood! Blood! My sprinkled blood!

It cries for you, it cries for you!

Oh come, brothers come!

I will show you to my Father

So come, brothers come!

I will call you mine!

Oh come, brothers come!

We must go to our Father!

So come, brothers come!

I am not ashamed to call you mine!

’Cause brothers, you are mine.

Themes: The Curse of Sin, The Cross, The Story of Redemption, We are Children of God.

Thoughts to consider as you listen and read through this study: Adam was a sinful evil father for the human race. Through him, we have inherited a sin nature. Our sin nature leads to murderous intent toward our brothers as seen in the example of Cain and Abel, and because of this, the blood of our brothers remains on our hands. Up until this point, the album only speaks of who we are without Christ—powerless murderers in every way with a thirst for death. However, in this song we see how the love of Christ interrupts the destructive streak that is running wild through our human family. Through Christ’s death, he gives us a new bloodline; grafted into the lineage and line of the royal family of Christ the King.