Puller – Saviour of the Fools (from Happy Christmas Vol. 1)
How often do you here of a band being so proud of a song that, well after the group has broken up, they create a website dedicated to the song. That’s just what Mike Lewis, formerly of Puller, did. Unfortunately, the site only existed briefly in 2011, so if you want to see if now, you need to visit the The Wayback Machine.
I never really got much into the band. I liked the What’s Mine At Twilight album and #1 Fan was fun, but given the amount of time that I spent in my adolescence listening to Tooth & Nail, I never really connected with their music. That said, I love this song.
I’ll just leave you with the lyrics:
So endless I’ve been taken away as patience yields to anger
As a world moves and bends to waves of sin that will not end
Weightless I fall from Grace, take the pause and wish it away
So many will be present so few will see and know.
Oh Savior of the Fools, Oh Savior of the Fools
Tapered lives that burn within surrendered to a life less lived
A crowd of rolling thunder that cannot make a sound
A day of a downcast fool, who finds a chance inside a baby’s eyes
When no one else will live, misunderstood as him.
Oh Savior of the Fools, Oh Savior of the Fools
And in my weakness I vanish with air,
To bow and tremble at the power in His hands
And in my darkness I’m visited again, by the still small voice Who calls
A fool to be a hero for Love
For Love, For Love, For Love, For Love, For Love
Christmas lights and trees can’t heal, broken lives and hearts that feel
The loneliness of fallen dreams, that leaves nothing at all
Moments pass a star to rise, a Baby’s born but born to die
To leave this world a light that cannot be taken out
Oh Savior of the Fools, Oh Savior of the Fools
And in my weakness I manage to relive,
The tear filled eyes of wise men standing in awe of Him
And in my darkness I’m visited again, by the still small voice that was born
On a silent night, to bring a life, for Love
For Love, for Love, for Love, for Love, for Love
Words by Mike Lewis
Oh yeah, Stavesacre also covered this and it’s excellent. Some days I like it better than the original. The link below is the only place that I’ve seen it other than a digital sampler that you got by buying some thing from zambooie.com one Christmas season. I think that I bought something just to get the sampler to here the song.