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if I make it back home alive, I’ll eat my black hat.
let’s face the facts: I’ve grown tired and fat.
lightning bolts crackle across my chest, my neck, my back.
the spirit is willing but the flesh is under attack.
gotta stay on track like I’ve practiced,
gotta stay woke, gotta preach against wackness.
my de facto approach is nothing short of magic.
if there’s such a thing as a charmed life, then I’ve had it.

DO YOU STAND BY THE WORDS YOU WROTE? (yes I do)
DO YOU STAND BY THE WORDS YOU SPOKE? (yes I do)
DO YOU TOIL UNDER JESUS' YOKE? (yes I do)

five years on a boat, you might know about the sea.
ten years gardening, you might know about the weeds.
but a whole life with Christ is not enough time
to deeply know the divine---
we are beggars, truly, we are beggars.
you and me are beggars, we're just searching for bread.
through the truth we are fed, in the words that were said,
giving life to the dead, even here in the bed.
I pray one day I will rise again.

DO YOU STAND BY...

who would not be sad and afflicted
at the loss of such a precious man as my Martin?
he did great things not just for a city or a single land,
but for the whole world.

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from HERE I STAND: a Lutheran mixtape, released April 29, 2017
Written, performed, and produced by Andy Pokel, with:
Joe Davis, vocals
Daniel Greco, vocals
Elise Pokel, vocals

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Andy Pokel Minneapolis, Minnesota

Andy Pokel is a church musician and seminary student who lives in Minneapolis, MN with his wife and son.

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