Hunter Hayes - Flashlight

The Shield was another of the Fear's names. According to Laughter, it means he shields the seed of Abraham the way a man starting a fire shields the flame. When Sarah was about to die childless, the Fear gave her a son. When Abraham was about to slaughter the son, the Fear gave him the ram. He is always shielding us like a guttering wick, Laughter said, because the fire he is trying to start with us is a fire that the whole world will live to warm its hands at. It is a fire in the dark that will light the whole world home.

- Frederick Buechner, The Son of Laughter

Country music has a long list of classic songs for Easter, but the spirit is alive with new songwriters as well.  Hunter Hayes is the youngest male artist to reach #1 on the Billboard Country chart.  This song is from his 2014 album, Storyline.  It fits not just Easter, but the other 364 days of the year too.

Flashlight (Songwriters: Hunter Hayes, Troy Verges, Barry Dean)

I get lost sometimes, like everybody else,

Lose track of my lifelines, lose track of myself

And there's all kinds of reasons to be scared and run away

It's a good time for sad times like heaven couldn't be

Farther from the places, that heaven always finds me,

If nobody cares, tell me how is it I keep getting saved this way

It's a sunrise from a lonely night

Like a smile in a stranger's eyes

It's the moments that save my life,

nobody knows about like flashlights

there's just enough hope when it shines,

to go one scared step at a time

When the world's too dark I find, your flashlight, yeah

I'm glad nobody's counting, and Lord I'm glad you don't keep score

My prayers are all the same, as the ones I prayed before

Thank you, but forgive me, my rough around the edges heart is yours

And the moments where you swear I'm just screaming at the sky,

It's the strangest conversation or a friend just stopping by

and it's funny when I realize all the places that your miracles can hide

It's a sunrise from a lonely night

Like a smile in a stranger's eyes

It's the moments that save my life,

nobody knows about like flashlights

there's just enough hope when it shines,

to go one scared step at a time

When the world's too dark I find, your flashlight, yeah

Like a sunrise from a lonely night

Like a smile in a stranger's eyes

It's the moments that save my life, nobody knows about

Like flashlights

and there's just enough hope when it shines, to go one scared step at a time

When the world's too dark I find, your flashlight

Oh, who am I?

Dust and water,

Touched by the Divine

Tell me who, who am I?

you keep shining on me, shining on me, yeah

shining on me

It's the moments that save my life nobody knows about

It's like a flashlight

(there's just enough hope when it shines)

And it's just enough hope when it shines,

(to go one scared step at a time) to go one step at a time

(when the world's to dark I find your flashlight)

When the world's too dark I find your flashlight

It's a sunrise from a lonely night

It's a smile in a stranger's eyes

It's the moments that save my life nobody knows about

Like flashlights

It's just enough hope when it shines, to go one scared step at a time

When the world's too dark I find, your flashlight

(Like a sunrise from a lonely night

like a smile in a strangers eyes) who am I

(it's the moments that save my life nobody know about

like flashlights) oh yeah

(it's just enough to hope when it shines,

to go one scared step at a time

when the world too dark I find)

you keep shining your light, you keep shining your light, eh eh

I'm just finding your flashlight

Today the world awaits, expectant.  But there is still a light to mark our way.