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Credits below copied from YouTube credits. So much thanks to Luke, Evan, Drew, and Liz for creating Apartment Sessions and choosing this song! Lyrics available below, or by using closed captions (CC) in the video above.
Season 3: Episode 1 – No Miracle (Susan Gascho-Cooke)
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‘I wrote “No Miracle” at least ten years ago after a particularly hard day at work as a hospital chaplain. I needed words for the frustration but also wonder of life out beyond whether “miracles can really happen” or not. The chorus was inspired by a greeting card I found and sent to a friend. The image on it looked like an image from Alice in Wonderland — a girl surrounded by emptied tea cups with the words, “The human heart is insatiable, and I didn’t know! I didn’t know!” I sent it to a friend, and now have no idea how to credit the creator of the greeting card.’ – Susan Gascho-Cooke
Music & Lyrics by Susan Gascho-Cooke
Arrangement by Luke McGinnis and Drew Krasner
Original arrangement by Russell Weeks
Susan Gascho-Cooke – vocals, violin
Katie Martucci – violin, vocals
Georgia Sackler – Nashville guitar, vocals
Dylan Mckinstry – tenor banjo, vocals (*credited incorrectly in the video credits, sorry Dylan!)
Courtney Stewart – vocals
Luke McGinnis – guitar
Jamie Mohamdein – bass
Sebastian Chiriboga – drums
Kevin Kuh – violin
Sam Quiggins – cello
Drew Krasner – clarinet
Kyra Sims – horn
Jakob Reinhardt – mandolin
Chien Chien Lu – vibraphone
Evan Tyor – lapsteel
Mixed and mastered by Evan Tyor
Engineered by Jen Kraus and Evan Tyor
Filmed by Liz Maney and Jeanette Moses
Video edited by Liz Maney
Apartment Sessions Animation – Brian Plautz
Session Title Handwriting – Susan Gascho-Cooke
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Apartment Sessions is created & produced by Luke McGinnis, Evan Tyor, Drew Krasner, and Liz Maney
No Miracle (Lyrics)
I have only tears to baptize
only fumbling hands to bless
one little fish and a handful of crumbs
I have waited here … no miracle comes
your body is tired, my spirit is weak
you ask me to pray, I ask your forgiveness
if Heaven proves false I promise that we
will rival that Feast in my kitchen
we’ll fry bitter onions in the fat of the land
toast the strange brew of time and neglect
turning to wine our own water and weeds
and hiding the truth of the vigil
oh the human heart insatiable is, and I didn’t know, I didn’t know …
oh the human heart insatiable is, and I didn’t know, I didn’t know …
did I lead you where you would never have gone?
did I find you where you already were?
like Hansel & Gretel we are hungry and lost
for we squander our bread on the journey
then you flash me green irises, sweet as a wink
mine swim in their own salty brine
we are just babies beneath all the years
so fat with such empty bellies
oh the human heart insatiable is, and I didn’t know, I didn’t know …
oh the human heart insatiable is, and I didn’t know, I didn’t know …
I have only tears to baptize
only fumbling hands to bless
one little fish and a handful of crumbs
I am waiting here … for a miracle … come