Emmanuel Chant

[Image: 'Passafist' Front Cover]

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I've climbed a mountain
To search for a fountain
'Cause I'm in bad, bad need
When will you come to me?

Touch my body
Touch my body
Breathe your life into me
Breathe your breath into me

Touch my body
Touch my body
Breathe your breath into me
Breathe your life into me

Come on
Come on

Touch my body
Fix my body
Breathe your breath into me
Breathe your love into me

Touch my body
Touch my body
You gotta breathe your breath into me
Breathe your life into me

Breathe your breath upon me
Breathe your breath upon me
Breathe your life upon me
Breathe your life upon me

Touch my body
Touch my body
Touch my body
Fix my body

Touch
Touch
Touch

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About The Song

From Rebel Artists Become Passafist, Syndicate Magazine, July 1994:

"Emmanuel Chant" is very different from the rest of the songs on the record. The lyrics are more emotional, more psalm-like.

Perkins: That's exactly what it's supposed to be. Do you remember a movie called Soylent Green? It's like a post-apocalyptic society and the population has gotten so far out of control... it's like that old hippie poster that's an illustration from above and basically people are standing or sitting on top of literally every inch of space on the earth.

With all the mayhem that's going in the world right now, it really kind of reminds me of some of those prophetic films about what it would be like if things continued on. And it's almost like we're getting there. That song, to me, is really like a prayer going up from the cacophony of life as we know it and are getting to know it with all its various injustices and pains and atrocities. Out of all the noise, there's this prayer for personal resolution.