Oh Hallelujah

by Trevor Morgan, Sony/ATV Milene Music / Years Later Music (ASCAP) and John Mallory, Spin Cycle Music (ASCAP)

My heart is bearing the scars
Of living in the last days
But in my soul
I know that you are
The one that (should be “who”) I await

Oh Hallelujah!
Glory Amen
Oh Hallelujah!
You’re coming again

My eyes can’t take what they see
And it just gets harder everyday
Make me a witness
For what is to come
And what’s passing away

Oh Hallelujah!
Glory Amen
Oh Hallelujah!
You’re coming again
You’re coming again

You came as an innocent child
In the silence of night
But to a world in wonder
On a cloud of thunder
You’re coming back to make things right

Oh Hallelujah!
Glory Amen
Oh Hallelujah!
You’re coming again

Oh Hallelujah!
Glory Amen
Oh Hallelujah!
You’re coming again

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1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

I love the old spirituals of the church – “Amen,” “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot,” “Nobody Knows” – and I wrote this chorus with those songs in mind.

A simple statement of belief and worship was all I was going for, but when I played this chorus for John Mallory he had the idea of lyrically taking it to another level. What we ended up with was a song of struggles and scars, but also one of hope and praise.

Musically, this song really took shape as we were tracking it. The intro was something that we all just started noodling with before the tape rolled, and we liked it so much that it stuck. After the take was finished, we all sensed that we had something pretty special on our hands.

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