Intro (Quiet Lament – Slow, Tender Start) (piano, muted trumpet, clarinet, brush drums) Lead (soft, weary): Where can I turn for peace? Where is my solace now? When other sources cease to make me whole… (choir hums underneath: "mmm, cease to make me whole) Lead: When with a wounded heart, anger or malice, I draw myself apart… Searching my soul… (choir quietly repeats: "searching my soul") Verse 2 (Reflective Groove – Questioning Tone) Where, when my aching grows? Where, when I languish? Where in my need to know — where can I run? Where is the quiet hand to calm my anguish? Who … who can understand? He. Only One. (choir hums underneath: "mmm, the Only One) Bridge (Turning Point – Realization) Lead (softly, like discovery): He answers privately … Reaches my reaching … In my Gethsemane, Savior and Friend. (the choir says quietly, "O, yes, Jesus my friend) Lead (hope rising): Gentle the peace He finds for my beseeching — Constant He is and kind … Love without end. (choir hums underneath: “Mmm, love without end…”) Instrumental Break (The Prayer Awakens – Joyful Dixieland Swing) (trumpets, clarinet, trombone, drums, banjo & piano riff) Verse 3 (Full Band – Hopeful Joy) Where can I turn for peace? (choir echo: Turn for peace!) Where is my solace? (choir: He is near!) When storms of pain and sorrow start to roll? (choir: Child, He’s in control!) Lead (smiling now): Oh, there’s a hand that calms my anguish, A voice that whispers low … “I’m here, my child, you’re not alone.” (Choir hums: "mmm ... child, you're not alone") Chorus (Swing Lift – Call & Response) Lead (call): He answers privately — Choir (response): Reaches my reaching! Lead: He answers tenderly — Choir: He’s teaching, ever teaching! Lead: Gentle the peace He gives each day, Choir: When I bow my head to pray. (Choir repeats softly: "to pray, oh ... the peace that comes) (band shifts into brighter New Orleans groove; tambourine joins on backbeat) Final Verse (Triumphant & Warm – Faith Found) Constant He is and kind, (choir: ever kind!) Love without end! (choir: with no end in sight!) When my world falls apart, He mends again. (choir: and again, and again!) The trumpet may cry, the river may bend — But His mercy, it don’t ever end! (Choir repeats loudly: "it don't ever end!") (trumpets: bright harmony riff) Outro (Peaceful Ending – Reflective and Bright) Lead (gentle): He answers privately… Reaches my reaching… Choir (soft harmony): Love without end… Lead (final line, softly smiling): And I think to pray again. (band ends on bright G6 chord) (trumpet: gentle hold note) (clarinet: upward grace run) (banjo: final pluck) (piano: soft gospel cadence))
