Song
I Will Pray (Orabo Interlude) (Piano Sessions Version)
From the release: Piano Sessions
Lyrics
I will pray to the Lord with my mind,
and I will pray with my spirit too.
Let it not be only my voice that sings to God
while my thoughts wander elsewhere,
pulled off-course and drifting,
caught up in empty distractions.
Song Meaning
“I Will Pray (Orabo Interlude) (Piano Sessions Version)” is a direct English meditation on the short hymn fragment Orabo mente Dominum. Its entire concern is the integrity of prayer. A voice may sing sacred words while the mind wanders through empty distractions, so the hymn promises to pray with both mind and spirit. The song preserves that compact teaching without adding a narrative around it. Each line names either the desired unity or the familiar experience of attention slipping away. The gentle piano does not dramatize distraction as failure; it creates room for the mind to return. As an interlude, the track also explains the instrumental “Orabo” heard earlier on the album, supplying in words the practice that the wordless piece embodied. Prayer becomes neither performance nor mere sound, but the repeated gathering of the whole person toward God—voice, thought, desire, and spirit brought back into one offering.
Song Inspiration
The traditional Ambrosian hymn fragment Orabo mente Dominum, a six-line prayer that joins mind, spirit, and voice while warning against attention drifting into empty distractions.
From the Source
Supporting passages from the Augustinus Vox Standard Version (AVSV). Select a source to read it in context.
I shall pray to the Lord with my mind;
I shall pray likewise with my spirit,
lest the voice alone sing to God
while our understanding, drawn elsewhere,
wanders and goes astray,
preoccupied by empty chances.
And perhaps these are the two trumpets through which Paul sounded by the divine Spirit, saying: “I shall pray with the spirit; I shall pray also with the mind. I shall sing with the spirit; I shall sing also with the mind” (I Cor. XIV, 15); for the one without the other appears by no means to possess a perfect summons.
Additional Details
Song Style: very soft intimate solo piano, delicate contemporary classical, gentle flowing arpeggios, tender emotional melody, quiet reflective mood, warm natural piano tone, sparse minimalist performance
Suno Model: v5
