Glorious Ruins

G — Em — C — D

G

No one writes a comfort book this cold,

Em

Where narrow paths are lined with iron and bone,

C

Where gardens sweat and sons cry out in vain,

D

And love means walking straight into the flame.

Em — C

I didn’t come here looking to believe,

G — D

I came because the evidence won’t leave.

G

We are glorious ruins,

Em

Made in the image, cracked at the core,

C

Neither the darkness nor the light alone

D — G

Can explain what we’re reaching for.

Em

Every other ladder asks you climb,

C

This one was lowered — here, to the ground.

D — G

If the stone was rolled, then nothing else matters.

C — D — G

If it wasn’t, none of this is found.

G

A lamb in Egypt, a servant bruised in verse,

Em

Seven centuries before the hammer’s curse —

C

Too precise for legend, too early for a lie,

D

Too specific for the fog of prophets’ eyes.

Em — C

And Peter went to his cross upside down,

G — D

James turned a skeptic’s silence into sound.

G

We are glorious ruins,

Em

Made in the image, cracked at the core,

C

Neither the darkness nor the light alone

D — G

Can explain what we’re reaching for.

Em

Every other ladder asks you climb,

C

This one was lowered — here, to the ground.

D — G

If the stone was rolled, then nothing else matters.

C — D — G

If it wasn’t, none of this is found.

Am

What makes sense of Bach and genocide?

C

A child laughing, a child left to die?

Em

The secular can’t hold both at once —

D

Only broken glory answers why.

Am

I won’t pretend the suffering is solved,

C

Or that the exclusions sit clean on the shelf,

Em

But no worldview carries more of the weight —

D — Dsus4 — D

He entered the darkness, He went there Himself.

G

We are glorious ruins,

Em

Made in the image, cracked at the core,

C

Neither the darkness nor the light alone

D — G

Can explain what we’re reaching for.

Em

Every other ladder asks you climb,

C

This one was lowered — here, to the ground.

D — G

If the stone was rolled, then nothing else matters.

C — D — G

If it wasn’t, none of this is found.

G — Em — C — D (repeat, fade)

”…beautiful and broken. Beautiful and broken.” (spoken/whispered)

Production Notes:

∙ Intro/Verses: Solo fingerpicked acoustic guitar, barely-there piano

∙ Chorus: Cello enters, brushed snare

∙ Bridge: Strip back to voice + single piano note

∙ Final Chorus: Full band crash — electric guitar shimmer, low organ, bass, full drums

∙ Tempo: ~62 BPM — deliberate, unhurried​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​