Hat in My Hands | An Original Catholic Song About Baptism

A song about coming up the aisle at forty with nothing to offer and getting baptized anyway. ✝️ "WATER AND THE WORD" shirt → https://www.etsy.com/listing/45655195... ────────────────────────────── I created this about the people who come into the Church later in life — the ones who show up with a whole life behind them and think that disqualifies them. It doesn't. Jesus doesn't care how long you took to get there. You are loved. This is song 1 of 7 in a series I'm creating, one for each of the sacraments. ▸ LYRICS I came up the aisle with my hat in my hands Forty years of hard living on me Every man in that place knew what I'd done And not one of them looked away clean The priest asked me what I was asking for I said mister, I don't rightly know I just know I can't carry it one more mile And I got nowhere else to go He said, then kneel down here at the edge of it And let the water do what I can't Water and the word That's all it took Poured out on a man Nobody would look at Went down a stranger to my own name Come up belonging Water and the word Water and the word It ain't a bath and it ain't a show It ain't a promise a man can keep God moves in the ordinary things Same as He always did with the weak A little water, a little oil Some words a working man can say And heaven reaches down through the plain and poor And don't take nothing away So pour it out on this ruined head And let the old thing stay dead [Chorus] My mother's been dead nineteen years Never saw me come to this Used to leave the porch light burning Long after she gave up the wait But there's a Father I never earned Standing where that light used to be Christ went first and He held the door And He didn't shut it behind Him I still wake up the same tired man Still got the same crooked bone But there's a difference in a stranger's fall And a son who falls at home So I'll come back down this aisle again Every time I lose the thread 'Cause the water only had to work the once And it worked on this old head [Chorus] ▸ ABOUT THIS RECORDING I write these lyrical ideas. AI helps me record them — it's how someone without a studio, a voice or a band gets an idea out of his head and into the world. This video is labeled as altered or synthetic content. ▸ RUINED ROOF Original Catholic songs about the parts of faith nobody writes songs about. Subscribe →    / @ruinedroof   ▸ SHIRTS https://www.etsy.com/listing/45655195... #CatholicMusic #Baptism #OriginalSong