Wiser Than Our Machines

INTRO – PALM-WINE GUITAR, SOFT ORGAN Mmm... before the screen lights up, let me lift my eyes... VERSE 1 The phone was glowing 'fore my feet could find the floor, A thousand voices bidding at my morning door. But the first hour is holy — it's the rudder of the day, So I gave it to the One who taught my heart to pray. They rank what I should love, they guess what I will do, But they never held the ridge at dawn, never walked with You. PRE-CHORUS Oh, they can count my steps — they cannot walk my road. They can weigh my words — they cannot bear my load. CHORUS We will be wiser than our machines, More than the pattern, more than the screen — They cannot love, they cannot kneel, They cannot pardon, they cannot heal. Made from the dust but crowned with the flame, We are not profiles — He calls us by name! Wiser, wiser than our machines. VERSE 2 It can be corrected, but it never can repent, It can be reliable, but never covenant. It can sing a thousand hymns and never bow its head, It can end a running process — but it cannot rise from dead. No life to lay down, no cross to carry through — Only a soul can be given, so I'm giving mine to You. CHORUS BRIDGE – CHOIR SWELLS The servers never sleep — but neither does my Keeper! The feeds run all night — but His watch runs deeper! One is watching to predict me, One is watching to protect me — He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep! (Onyame Adom! By His grace we go out, by His grace we come in!) FINAL CHORUS – FULL CHOIR, HORNS We will be wiser than our machines, More than the numbers, more than the screens — They do what we order, faster each day, But we were made for the narrow way. Do justly, love mercy, walk humbly and free — The Maker stays wiser than the made will ever be! Wiser... wiser than our machines. OUTRO – GUITAR AND VOICES FADING Soli Deo Gloria... mmm... Onyame Adom...