{"id":1605,"date":"2004-11-22T11:01:11","date_gmt":"2004-11-22T15:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2004\/11\/22\/yahweh\/"},"modified":"2004-11-22T11:01:11","modified_gmt":"2004-11-22T15:01:11","slug":"yahweh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2004\/11\/22\/yahweh\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahweh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a788'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The album-ender.&nbsp; Prayer.&nbsp; It&#8217;s no wonder that I return to them for advice on living, listening, and God.<\/p>\n<p>Take these shoes<br \/>Click clacking down some dead end street<br \/>Take these shoes<br \/>And make them fit<br \/>Take this shirt<br \/>Polyester white trash made in nowhere<br \/>Take this shirt<br \/>And make it clean, clean<br \/>Take this soul<br \/>Stranded in some skin and bones<br \/>Take this soul<br \/>And make it sing<\/p>\n<p>Yahweh, Yahweh<br \/>Always pain before a child is born<br \/>Yahweh, Yahweh<br \/>Still I&#8217;m waiting for the dawn<\/p>\n<p>Take these hands<br \/>Teach them what to carry<br \/>Take these hands<br \/>Don&#8217;t make a fist<br \/>Take this mouth<br \/>So quick to criticise<br \/>Take this mouth<br \/>Give it a kiss<\/p>\n<p>Yahweh, Yahweh<br \/>Always pain before a child is born<br \/>Yahweh, Yahweh<br \/>Still I&#8217;m waiting for the dawn<\/p>\n<p>Still waiting for the dawn, the sun is coming up<br \/>The sun is coming up on the ocean<br \/>This love is like a drop in the ocean<br \/>This love is like a drop in the ocean<\/p>\n<p>Yahweh, Yahweh<br \/>Always pain before a child is born<br \/>Yahweh, tell me now<br \/>Why the dark before the dawn?<\/p>\n<p>Take this city<br \/>A city should be shining on a hill<br \/>Take this city<br \/>If it be your will<\/p>\n<p>What no man can own, no man can take<br \/>Take this heart<br \/>Take this heart<br \/>Take this heart<br \/>And make it break<\/p>\n<p>Lyrics: Bono &amp; The Edge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The album-ender.&nbsp; Prayer.&nbsp; It&#8217;s no wonder that I return to them for advice on living, listening, and God. Take these shoesClick clacking down some dead end streetTake these shoesAnd make them fitTake this shirtPolyester white trash made in nowhereTake this shirtAnd make it clean, cleanTake this soulStranded in some skin and bonesTake this soulAnd make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day2day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5G3PH-yahweh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}