Open Hands | An Ecclesiastes-Inspired Original Song

<p>Let this day be a gift, not a prize.</p><p><br /></p><p>Open Hands is an original Modern Mind, Ancient Book song inspired by Ecclesiastes—ordinary bread, honest work, companionship, grief, and learning to receive life as God's gift without pretending we understand it all.</p><p><br /></p><p>Original poetic lyrics include brief excerpts from Ecclesiastes 3:11, 3:13, and 4:9 (Berean Standard Bible). The opening line of this description is an original song lyric, not a Bible quotation.</p><p><br /></p><p>AI-assisted original lyrics, music and vocals created with Suno; AI-generated cover artwork. Selected and produced for Modern Mind, Ancient Book.</p><p><br /></p><p>LYRICS</p><p>I kept a light on after midnight,</p><p>One more number, one more mile.</p><p>Had a pocket full of tomorrows,</p><p>Hadn't heard you laugh in a while.</p><p>All the things I thought would fill me</p><p>Left no room to let you in.</p><p>I could hold a whole day's wages,</p><p>Couldn't hold a handful of wind.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can't see beginning to end,</p><p>But I can sit beside a friend.</p><p><br /></p><p>Open hands, open hands,</p><p>Let this day be a gift, not a prize.</p><p>Bread to break and work to do,</p><p>Time to look into your eyes.</p><p>I can't keep the sun from sinking,</p><p>I can love while it is high.</p><p>Open hands, open hands,</p><p>Let this day be a gift, not a prize.</p><p><br /></p><p>There's a coat beside the doorway</p><p>That nobody wears these days.</p><p>We don't rush to fill the silence,</p><p>We don't make the hurt explain.</p><p>“Two are better than one,”</p><p>So I'll sit here till you rise.</p><p>We can share the bread between us,</p><p>Leave the questions here tonight.</p><p><br /></p><p>Open hands, open hands,</p><p>Let this day be a gift, not a prize.</p><p>Bread to break and work to do,</p><p>Time to look into your eyes.</p><p>I can't keep the sun from sinking,</p><p>I can love while it is high.</p><p>Open hands, open hands,</p><p>Let this day be a gift, not a prize.</p><p><br /></p><p>“He has made everything beautiful in its time.”</p><p>Still I cannot see the whole design.</p><p>God, teach me reverence in the days I spend,</p><p>To keep Your words when I can't see the end.</p><p><br /></p><p>Open hands, open hands,</p><p>Let this day be a gift, not a prize.</p><p>Bread to break and work to do,</p><p>Time to look into your eyes.</p><p>I can't keep the sun from sinking,</p><p>I can love while it is high.</p><p>Open hands, open hands,</p><p>L