The Basin And The Towel lyrics

In an upstairs room, a parable Is just about to come alive And while they bicker about who's best With a painful glance, He'll silently rise Their Savior Servant must show them how Through the will of the water And the tenderness of the towel And the call is to community The impoverished power that sets the soul free In humility, to take the vow That day after day we must take up the basin and the towel In any ordinary place On any ordinary day The parable can live again When one will kneel and one will yield Our Saviour Servant must show us how Through the will of the water And the tenderness of the towel And the space between ourselves sometimes Is more than the distance between the stars By the fragile bridge of the Servant's bow We take up the basin and the towel And the call is to community The impoverished power that sets the soul free In humility, to take the vow That day after day we must take up the basin and the towel