Week 23 - Michael Morrow - Cover My Eyes

My Diary for last week: Wednesday: wrote a 4-verse poem (‘I asked God for a wave, and he sent me the tide’). Thursday: re-wrote the poem. Saturday: took my favourite line from the poem (’Show me where the rain is born and where the thunder hides’) and wrote an entirely new poem, then set it to a tune. Sunday: Realised the rhythm of my poem would only ever make for a bad tune. Changed the rhythm and wrote a new tune. Wrote it on my guitar, sitting on a bass amp in the storeroom behind the kitchen at church because youth group had the run of the rest of the place. Songs analysed: 4 Beatles songs, 1 Norah Jones song, 1 Jeff Buckley song. Psalm I’ve been wrestling with: Psalm 139. Book that’s had the most impact on me this week: The Screwtape Letters. Thanks Julie for sitting with me while so I could record the song in one take, late on Sunday night. Thanks to Adelaide Metro for the beautifully-timed train at the end. I am not like you I am flesh and bone God, you are like water And I am stone Show me where the rain is born And where the thunder hides But if you show your glory Cover my eyes You don’t have to chase Even when I run Even if I rise On the wings of the dawn I could search the ocean depths To find a place to hide But you will be there waiting Cover my eyes I’m a see-through man When you search my life Underneath my skin To the heart inside Every thought I’ve ever had Is written up in lights But if you show your glory Cover my eyes I was not yet born When you wrote my days Carried from the womb To the lonely grave On this road from dust to dust I need a guiding light But if you show your glory Cover my eyes 2026 Copyright All rights reserved