The fourteenth track on Gungor’s album One Wild Life: Body, this song borrows its lyrics from The Book of Hours: Love Poems to God by German poet Rainer Maria Rilke.
[Verse]
Oh how we love you, the gentlest of Ways
Who ripens us as we wrestle with you
On the day that you made us, you created yourself
And we grow sturdy in your sunlight
[Chorus]
The great homesickness we could never shake off
The forest that always surrounded us
You, the song that we sang within every silence
The dark net threading through
I love you
[Outro]
Oh, I love you
Oh, I love you
The Great Homesickness was written by Michael Gungor & Lisa Gungor & Rainer Maria Rilke.
Gungor released The Great Homesickness on Fri Sep 30 2016.