DON'T BREAK ME OPEN

(Risking the Way of the Cross - from "A Question of Caring")

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This is a song by Peter Casey and Michael Lehr from the Reflection “Question Of Caring” song-cycle.
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The following quote is from the study booklet that accompanied the album.

"My inner self was a house divided against itself. When I was trying to reach a decision about serving the Lord my God, as I had long intended to do, it was I who willed to take this course and again it was I who willed not to do it ...

And the closer I came to the moment that was to mark the great change in me, the more I shrank from it in horror."

From "The Confessions of St Augustine"

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Lyrics (by Peter Casey)

Don't break me open; I may not stand the pain,
And the wounds on my body may not heal again.
Don't break me open, don't break me open,
For I may not heal again.

You say life means dying, but I feel alive now.
Have I passed through already? Have I missed it somehow?
You say home means leaving to journey with you,
But I'm asking you, how many don't make it
And never come through?
Don't break me open.

Don't break me open; I may not stand the pain,
And the wounds on my body may not heal again.
Don't break me open, don't break me open,
For I may not heal again.

It's the heroes who make it; the forgotten who fail.
I don't feel such a hero - I can't live out your tale.
You say home means leaving to journey with you,
But I'm asking you, how many don't make it
And never come through?
Don't break me open,
(Don't break me open),
Don't break me open.

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