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The View from the Window
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A raw country-gospel lament from the betrayed one’s side of the garden: a wife watches vows collapse, recognizes the ache of a trusted person turning away, and looks to the Savior who was betrayed by a kiss. Seven days of honest grief, wise boundaries, Christ’s compassion, mercy God grows, and hope for wounds that do not fully heal this side of heaven.
"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help."
A song for the road you're on.
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The View from the Window Dirt Road Gospel Music DirtRoadGospelMusic.com [Verse 1] I stood at the window in the half-lit room Watching the garden where the roses still bloom Your hand on her waist like it used to be mine Your mouth on her mouth under soft summer vine The same lips that promised forever to me Now stealing a secret I wasn't meant to see [Chorus 1] It's just a kiss in the garden But it cuts like a knife through the bone You traded my trust for a moment of heat And left me standing here all alone I know how it feels when the night closes in When the one you love most sells you out with a grin It's just a kiss in the garden But it feels like the end of the world [Verse 2] I counted the seconds, I held my own breath While the man that I married kissed someone to death Not death of the body, but something cut deep The quiet collapse of the vows we would keep My hands started shaking, my stomach turned cold Every soft word you ever spoke now feels sold [Chorus 2] It's just a kiss in the garden But it cuts like a knife through the bone You traded my trust for a moment of heat And left me standing here all alone I know how it feels when the night closes in When the one you love most sells you out with a grin It's just a kiss in the garden But it feels like the end of the world [Bridge] Two thousand years back in another dark place A man who had walked with You kissed Your own face Not with affection, but silver and pride A signal to soldiers that You were the prize You knew what was coming, You still let him near While the ones You had chosen all scattered in fear [Final Chorus] It's just a kiss in the garden Whether mine or the one that You knew The pain is the same when the trusted one turns And the night tastes of blood and of truth So I stand at this window with tears on my face And I think of the Savior who took my place He called Judas "friend" while the torches drew near Lord, I don't have that kind of mercy in here [Outro] It's just a kiss in the garden… But some wounds never fully heal