Holy Now Songtext
von Peter Mayer

When I was a boy each week
On Sunday we would go to church
Pay attention to the priest
And he would read the holy word
And consecrate the holy bread
And everyone would kneel and bow
Today the only difference is

Everything is holy now
Everything, everything
Everything is holy now

And when I was in Sunday school
We would learn about the time
Moses split the sea in two
Jesus made the water wine
And I remember feeling sad
Miracles don′t happen still
But now I can't keep track


′Cause everything's a miracle
Everything, everything
Everything's a miracle

Wine from water is not so small
But an even better magic trick
Is that anything is here at all
So the challenging thing becomes
Not to look for miracles
But to find them where there isn′t one

When holy water was rare at best
It barely wet my fingertips
But now I have to hold my breath
Like I′m swimming in a sea of it
It used to be a world half there
Heaven's second rate hand-me-down
But I walk it with a reverent air

′Cause everything is holy now


Read a questioning child's face
And say it′s not a testament
That'd be very hard to say
See another new morning come
And say it′s not a sacrament
I tell you that it can't be done

This morning outside I stood
I saw a little red-winged bird
Shining like a burning bush
And singing like a scripture verse
It made me want to bow my head
I remember when church let out
How things have changed since then

Everything is holy now
It used to be a world half there
Heaven's second rate hand-me-down
But I walk it with a reverent air
′Cause everything is holy now