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Let Love Lead You Home

from Recognition by Carolyn Arends

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Let Love Lead You Home
Words by Laura Funk and Carolyn Arends
Music by Carolyn Arends
Based on the poem “When It Comes” by Laura Funk

Every day the chaplain comes
To sit beside the dying
She listens when there are no words
And helps with the goodbye-ing
And when they ask her how to die
She says she’s never tried it
But then she takes them by the hand
And whispers in the quiet

When it’s time for you to leave
Gather all the love you’ve known
The love you gave, the love received
And let it lead you home
Oh, let love lead you home

Sometimes there are photographs
They look at them together
A wedding dress, a bassinet
A tree every December
And if the family can come
They tell so many stories
And with their laughter and their tears,
They make that room so holy

Chorus

Well sometimes all the memories
Have faded past retrieving
And sometimes there’s no loved ones left
To come and do the grieving
But the chaplain knows their song plays on
Though only God can hear it
And so she takes them by the hand
And whispers for the Spirit

Chorus

© Running Arends Music/ASCAP and LauraFunk/SOCAN

credits

from Recognition, released January 22, 2021
Randall Stoll—drums
Miles Hill—acoustic bass
Spencer Capier— mandola, violin, vocals
Carolyn Arends—vocals, guitar (Martin New Yorker)
Roy Salmond—electric guitar (Epiphone Casino)
Kent Wallace—flugel horn, horn arranger
Brent Mah—tenor sax

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Carolyn Arends Vancouver, British Columbia

"One of the most affecting communicators in any genre." - Billboard Magazine

Carolyn Arends has released 14 albums and is the author of 3 critically-acclaimed books. 15 of Arends’ songs have become top 10 radio singles on the Canadian pop and US Christian charts. Arends has earned 2 Dove Awards, 3 Juno Nominations, and was recognized as the West Coast Music Awards’ Songwriter of the Year. ... more

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