U2’s new single “Street of Dreams” opens and closes with a prayer to God.
Easy to miss when you first hear it, but the lyric video puts it front and center.
📽️ Official lyric video of “Street of Dreams” with Psalm 61
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You may know it as:
“Hear my cry, O God;
Attend to my prayer.
From the end of the earth I will cry to You,
When my heart is overwhelmed;
Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.”
(Psalm 61:1-2 NKJV)
But in The Message it is:
“God, listen to me shout,
bend an ear to my prayer.
When I’m far from anywhere,
down to my last gasp,
I call out, ‘Guide me up High Rock Mountain!’”
(Psalm 61:1-2 MSG)
Psalm 61 is beloved for its honest cry from a place of distance and overwhelm — asking God to be our unshakeable refuge and lift us to higher ground.
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