Deliverance (Piano/Vocal)

9 Apr 2018 · 3 min

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The piece is a lyrical monologue set to piano and vocal performance that explores the speaker’s experience of exile and longing for deliverance. The narrator describes being severed from tribe and chance, feeling hopeless in a foreign land, yet maintains hope that miracles will bring deliverness. Repeated refrains emphasize moral imperatives—"if you want truth, be a man of truth" and "if you want peace, live in peace"—suggesting personal responsibility for these virtues. The song speaks of a hidden path of tradition and a journey back home, portraying deliverance as the culmination of overcoming fear, doubt, and exile. The overall tone is reflective and hopeful, with a steady, prayer‑like cadence that reinforces the yearning for return and peace.

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supplication, there will be deliverance. Severed from my tribe and from my chance, a hopeless man in a foreign land. But when I see everything's a miracle, there will be deliverance. If you want truth, be a man of truth. If you want peace, live in peace. In just a while, we'll see the end of the exile. In just a while, deliverance. Buried under years of fear and doubt, a hidden path of sweet tradition. When I take the journey back home, it will be deliverance. If you want truth, be a man of truth. If you want peace, live in peace. In just a while, we'll see the end of the exile. In just a while, deliverance. If you want truth, be a man of truth. If you want peace, live in peace. Peace, live in peace. In just a while we'll see the end of the exile. In just a while we'll see the end of the exile. In just a while, the end of the exile. In just a while. Deliverance.