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Selah

by David Åhlén

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1.
Linger 02:10
Let me linger
 here in Your presence
 Linger
 I’ve seen Your glory
 Linger, Holy Spirit

 I can feel You
 Your hand when You heal me
 Feel You
 Your cheek when You hold me
 I feel you, holy Spirit

 Let me linger
 Here in Your presence
 Linger
 I’ve seen the eyes of Jesus
 and I found rest

 I can feel You
 Your hand when You heal me
 Feel You
 Your cheek when You hold me
 I feel you, holy Spirit
2.
There’s a wind blowing it’s a new day There’s a fire in our hearts it’s a new way Save the oil in this late hour Hold me close in Your arms In Your arms Father There’s a wind blowing it’s a new day I see glory coming New Jerusalem
3.
How I love the way
 You fill me
 with heat 
and Jesuselectricity

 How I love the way you 
fill me
 With joy
 right into 
 my darkest hour

 How I love the way
 You shine
 Christlight
 through my body

 How You sing out
 Your song
 Your lullaby

 How I love the way
 You breathe
 Your peace
 upon us

 When we sit there on 
the couch
 and gaze 
into light

 How I love the way
 You fill
 my tongue
 with the language
 of unknown words

 Revealing Your secrets
 to me
 through me
 to us
4.
On the verge 02:39
On the verge hear the sound of His wings shut your eyes If you try your might fly hold your hands up high God is love God is here God is everywhere If you try you might fly give yourself to the wind now
5.
Draw us near 02:13
Draw us near draw us deep into Your healing love Let us dwell within Your holy love Jesus draw us near Bring us rest Lay our heads upon Your shoulder Lord Let us rest and let us dwell there Lord Jesus bring us rest Lord of light and Lord of hope draw us deep into Your healing love Let us dwell within Your holy love Jesus draw us near Bring us rest Lay our heads upon Your shoulder Lord Let us rest and let us dwell there Lord Jesus bring us rest
6.
Ps 27 03:11
Just one thing have I asked of ADONAI Only this I will seek To live in the house of ADONAI all the days of my life To see the beauty the beauty of ADONAI He will hide me in the folds of His tent he will set me high on a rock Then my head will be lifted up above my surrounding foes I will sing I will sing sing praises to ADONAI Listen ADONAI to my voice when I cry show favor to me answer me “My heart said of you, ‘Seek my face’” Your face ADONAI I will seek I will seek I will sing I will sing sing praises to ADONAI
7.
Rivers 02:26
Surrounded by Your love Rivers, rivers Your Spirit in my veins Rivers, rivers The gaze into the sun Jesus, Jesus No shadows in my eyes Jesus, Jesus I’m standing by the cross Rivers, rivers Covered by Your blood Jesus, Jesus
8.
Be still 02:58
Be still
 and know
 Be still 
you’ll know

 He will be there
 he will be right there

 Believe
, believe
 don’t you doubt
 believe

 He will be there 
in light
 He will shine through you

 Be healed
 be healed
 receive
 be healed

 He will be there
 he will be right there

 He will be there
 in light
 He will shine through you
9.
Yeshua 03:27
YHWH spoke out His word We saw Him 
felt His Sh’khina glory

 Morning star
 Root and offspring of David
 All things came to be through Him

 Yeshua
 Mashiach Lamb of God
 Purified us with His blood
 purified us through fire

 Light of this world
 Lover of our soul, we’re waiting
 the Spirit and the bride cries out:

 Come Yeshua
 Mashiach Yeshua 
Mashiach

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JESUSELECTRICITY

David Åhlén announces his new album Selah

Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can I flee from your presence?

In the video for David Åhlén’s single “We Sprout in Thy Soil” (released 2009 by Compunctio) it’s the 70s, and a people moves through the city. They have sideburns and megaphones. The sun streams and they clasp each other’s shoulders. “Jesus Is Lord,” the banners say, “Hallelujah,” Jesus Is Our Hope.” They are the Jesus people, walking toward Kungsträdgården, Stockholm. And above these flickering images hovers David’s voice. Now sheer as the thinnest light; now deep as a well. He has a voice that invokes immediate attention and “not a single second feels redundant,” PM Jönsson wrote in reference to the full-length album in the magazine Sonic and placed it on his best-of-year list. Many voices agreed, both in the Swedish and foreign press.

If I take the wings of the morning and settle at the farthest limits of the sea, even there your hand shall lead me

Four years later, David Åhlén releases a new album, Selah, on his own label, Mishkan. This past winter, the Åhlén family moved to Stenkumla parsonage on Gotland, where the album was recorded. If you listen carefully, you can hear the children and the ocean winds yanking at the old windows. But mostly, you can hear David’s unique voice and finger-picked guitar. At times sprinkled with music from Andreas Eklöf’s zither or American Timbre’s harp. Percussionist Peter Stolpestad plays minimally, charging every beat with presence. Several voices sing in the background and a few piano notes chime from Andreaz Hedén and Alma Hedlund Emilsson. Then they all take a backseat and it’s back to the Voice and the Guitar. The Voice—so fragile in falsetto, yet large enough to fill cathedrals.

If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me, and the light around me become night,” even the darkness is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day, for darkness is as light to you.

It’s been forty years since the sideburns and megaphones, but the same people still moves. David Åhlén is one of them. And the prayers which are his songs are still the same as then: About seeing heaven break forth. About lighting up this world with a different kind of light—Jesuselectricity.

/Nils Lundkvist, poet och editor for the Swedish culture magazine Cre

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released September 8, 2013

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