10. 'Were You There'- Luke Vassella 'By The River' song series 2024

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Were You There- Words & Music by Luke Vassella 2021 (a song for Australia’s Earth Overshoot Day, Monday 22nd March, 2021)

Were you there?
Were you there
When the stars were flung into space
When there was darkness on the face
of the deep
And did you weep
At the birth of the galaxies
At the universe of possibilities?

Brace yourself like a human being
And come to me
I’ll question you and you will answer me
Were you there? then how would you know?
Don’t you understand
How I love you so

Were you there?
Were you there, did you lay the earth’s foundation
With joy and jubilation at the scene?
Or have you been
To the gates of the shadow of death?
Though you are a mist, though you are a breath

Brace yourself like a human being
And come to me
I’ll question you and you will answer me
Were you there, then how would you know
Don’t you understand
How I love you so

O brace yourselves though the earth give way
Though the mountains melt away
Kingdoms will rise and empires will come and go
O my people be still....
Be still and know

Were you there
When the people gathered on the hillside
Did you hear their prayer....?

Brace yourselves like human beings
And come to me
I’ll question you and you will answer me
O my people what have you become?
O my creation, what have you done?