The Mystery of Your Gift

Reveries / Listening Pleasures

"It's the courage to turn when the pages have burned
And your story now seems at an end.
Seasons stay and seasons go
Sending your memories adrift.
It's the beautiful longing, embrace the unknown
That's the mystery of your gift."


This beautiful song "The Mystery of Your Gift" is featured in the film BoyChoir released in 2015. Josh Groban recorded and co-wrote it with Brian Byrne, featuring The American Boychoir. After watching the film, I was blown away by the song. As one passionate for choral singing, a choir member since I was a child and now a chorister with the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs in the autumn of life, I find the lyrics extremely meaningful and the tender singing by Josh Groban poignantly touches my soul.

It's not important to me that the movie has inaccuracies, for example, about Handel's Messiah. Contrary to what the movie implied that there were no boy soprano parts, Handel actually wrote the soprano arias for boys and those parts were sung in Dublin and at the Coram Benefit Concert. 

The BoyChoir (film) and its featured "The Mystery of Your Gift" (song), offer an inspiring message on growth, change, and the love that binds us together. "Seasons stay and seasons go, sending your memories adrift... and the lessons you gave to me: before you can fly, you must fall. It's the beautiful longing, embrace the unknown, that's the mystery of your gift." 





The Mystery of Your Gift (Lyrics) 

A single note passes out of the ashes
A flickering ember begins
It's the courage to turn when the pages have burned
And your story now seems at an end.

Seasons stay and seasons go
Sending your memories adrift.

It's the beautiful longing, embrace the unknown
That's the mystery of your gift.

And the echoes of your melody will always live in these walls
And the lessons that you gave to me, before you can fly, you must fall
It's the beautiful longing, embrace the unknown
That's the mystery of your gift.

There's a voice in the shadow calling for more
There's a rhythm that beats from within
Lending your voice to the warmth of the song
There's a strength in the choir of one
Pure as the voice that sees the place where the weight of your past may now lift
It's the beautiful longing, embrace the unknown
That's the mystery of your gift.

And the echoes of your melody will always live in these walls
And the lessons that you gave to me, before you can fly you must fall
So sing higher & higher, a thousand new voices ring through
If you sing out of the fire, the courage you need comes from you.


Related Links / Resources:

The Mystery of your Gift (original) by Josh Groban. Choir: American BoyChoir. Accessed April 2, 2018.

The Mystery of Your Gifts (Lyrics).  www.metrolyrics.com. Accessed April 2, 2018.

The Mystery of Your Gift. www.jwpepper.com. Accessed April 2, 2018.



Video Credit:

The Mystery of Your Gift. YouTube, uploaded by TUPIC. Accessed April 2, 2018. 




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