Holy Now

When I was a boy, each week On Sunday, we would go to church And pay attention to the priest He would read the holy word And consecrate the holy bread And everyone would kneel and bow Today the only difference is Everything is holy now Everything, everything Everything is holy now When I was in Sunday school We would learn about the time Moses split the sea in two Jesus made the water wine And I remember feeling sad That miracles don t happen still But now I can t keep track Cause everything s a miracle Everything, Everything Everything s a miracle Wine from water is not so small But an even better magic trick Is that anything is here at all So the challenging thing becomes Not to look for miracles But finding where there isn t one When holy water was rare at best It barely wet my fingertips But now I have to hold my breath Like I m swimming in a sea of it It used to be a world half there Heaven s second rate hand-me-down But I walk it with a reverent air Cause everything is holy now Everything, everything Everything is holy now Read a questioning child s face And say it s not a testament That d be very hard to say See another new morning come And say it s not a sacrament I tell you that it can t be done This morning, outside I stood And saw a little red-winged bird Shining like a burning bush Singing like a scripture verse It made me want to bow my head I remember when church let out How things have changed since then Everything is holy now It used to be a world half-there Heaven s second rate hand-me-down But I walk it with a reverent air Cause everything is holy now