Wash Me Clean

This song started when I was playing the keyboard and thinking about Psalm 51 and its expression of confession and the need for spiritual cleansing. The place I was sitting looked out a window at ground that happened to be recently covered in snow. Things then magically aligned where the snow I was looking at fit with the psalm’s words, “wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow,” and the song took root from there.

I’ve stumbled, I’ve fallen down

the past bears its weight

I see now where I went wrong

I’m telling it to you

you know everything I’ve done

nothing’s hidden to you

you are blameless when you judge but

your mercy is ever new

create in me

a clean heart o God

wash me clean

whiter than the snow

how easily I go astray

I’ve been bent from the start

a contrite heart you won’t despise

don’t let me go from you

from the dust, my life you breathed

put a new, right spirit in me

from the dust, my life you breathed

make me new, then I will sing