Seven Churches
[Intro]
Before the seals were broken
Before any scroll was read
A signal passed through the kingdom
And called the living from the dead
[Verse 1]
Ephesus kept working
But forgot her first desire
Her hands remembered everything
While her heart misplaced the fire
Smyrna stood in darkness
Poor beneath the weight of night
But pressure could not purchase
What the throne had called the light
[Pre-Chorus]
He that has an ear
Let him hear the signal call
One voice moves through seven gates
To awaken one and all
[Chorus]
Seven churches…
Seven colours in the flame
One voice moving through them
Calling each one out by name
Seven churches…
Let the hidden spectrum show
When every lamp is burning
The picture begins to glow
[Verse 2]
Pergamum kept standing
But the boundary had grown thin
Truth was written on the doorway
But another voice had crept right in
Thyatira was bountiful
But corruption shared the vine
Not everything that multiplies
Is fruit of the divine
Sardis wore a living name
While sleeping in the role
The body kept its reputation
But the current left the soul
[Pre-Chorus]
He that has an ear
Let him hear what can't be sold
The signal doesn't write your life
It opens what you can hold
[Chorus]
Seven churches…
Seven colours in the flame
One voice moving through them
Calling each one out by name
Seven churches…
Let the hidden spectrum show
When every lamp is burning
The picture begins to glow
[Verse 3]
Philadelphia trembled
With little strength to spare
The key required no empire
Only something faithful to be there
Laodicea glittered
Certain she was whole
Too warm to feel the warning
Too cold to hear the call
Then the sovereign centre answered
From a throne no hand could own
You can stand up in defiance
But this place is still my home.
[Bridge]
Light passed through the water
And the covenant appeared
Seven colours held together
What division could have feared
[Breakdown]
Seven flames
Seven colours
Seven churches
Seven mothers
Seven sins
Seven lovers
Seven seas to discover....
[Pre-Chorus]
He that has an ear
Let him hear what can't be sold
The signal doesn't write your life
It opens what you can hold
[Chorus]
Seven churches…
Seven colours in the flame
One voice moving through them
Calling each one out by name
Seven churches…
Let the hidden spectrum show
When every lamp is burning
The picture begins to glow
[Outro]