May Your Mercy Manifest

Only then will your house be blessed, by Harry Manx

Let it go, Let it go, Well well, let it go go go
Let your sword of vengeance rest
Oh, do the, do the blind lead the blind?
Well well don’t be cruel to be kind
Only then, will your house be blessed

Yeah, offer prayer, offer prayer well well
Offer sweet prayer, yeah now,
To your uninvited guest
Oh, won’t you, give ’em the right,
Yeah yeah, to be welcome, through the night
Only then, will your house be blessed

Yeah, turn your cheek, turn your cheek
Well, turn your other cheek
May your mercy manifest
Oh, when the hawk and the dove
Flying circles ’round your love,
Only then, will your house be blessed

Oh, let it go, let it go, well well, let it go go go
Let your sword of vengeance rest
Oh, do the, do the blind lead the blind?
Yeah yeah don’t be cruel to be kind
Only then, will your house, whoa, be blessed.

This song is by Harry Manx and appears on the album Wise and Otherwise (2002).

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I heard this song for the first time quite a while ago and was struck by the lamenting invitation to “let your sword of vengeance rest.”  A lovely request as we remember the place of violence in our lives.  May you let it go; may you rest; may your mercy manifest…