“Closer Than You Know” is a beautiful tune by James Maher MSC and is No 24 in AOV NG, but again I’m struggling to find it a liturgical place. Perhaps just as a Eucharist song and let everyone figure it out for themselves.
‘Without beauty, without majesty (we saw him),
no looks to attract our eyes;
a thing despised and rejected by all,
a man of sorrows and familiar with suffering …’ (Is 53:2b)
Verse 1
I am here, your God revealed,
Behind the veil,
Closer than you know.Humble lamb, fragile flesh,
Crying out,
Closer than you know.Refrain
I am here, close to you.
Tear the veil and see.
Your every step, your every breath,
I share eternally.Verse 2
Disfigured face, wounded fool,
Rejected sign,
Giving all I am.Torn away, tortured soul,
Sacrificed,
Giving all I am.Refrain
Verse 3
I am here, your God revealed.
Crucified,
Closer than you know.Abundant love, enduring hope,
Opened up,
Closer than you know.Refrain
© James Maher msc 2007.