All That Is Hidden (AOV 1/127)

This song by Bernadette Farrell has a gorgeous tune and with a fair old range too. It has a touch of the show tune about it. You can listen to the original here and the choral work makes me think it would be better as a solo. This amazing uptempo and enthusiastic rendition is incoherent enough to just about confirm it as does this breathless version.

So here is a song I’ve never played that I actually think is a great song and none of the versions I’ve heard do it justice.  It would be a great tune for Easter.

It can be purchased for download at OCP.

Verse 1

If you would follow me,
Follow where life will lead:
Do not look for me among the dead,
For I am hidden in pain, risen in love;
There is no harvest without sowing of grain.

Refrain:

All that is hidden will be made clear.
All that is dark now will be revealed.
What you have heard in the dark
Proclaim in the light;
What you hear in whispers
Proclaim from the housetops.

Verse 2

If you would honour me,
Honour the least of these:
You will not find me dressed in finery.
My Word cries out to be heard;
Breaks through the world:
My Word is on your lips and lives in your heart.

Refrain

Verse 3

If you would speak of me,
Live all your life in me.
My ways are not the ways that you would choose;
My thoughts are far beyond yours,
As heaven from earth:
If you believe in me my voice will be heard.

Refrain

Verse 4

If you would rise with me,
Rise through your destiny:
Do not refuse the death which brings you life,
For as the grain in the earth
Must die for rebirth,
So I have planted your life deep within mine.

Refrain

© Bernadette Farrell 1986, 1988.