Your Peace Will Make Us One

Audrey Assad opens with language borrowed straight from "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" — "mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord" — but redirects the whole song away from that hymn's martial imagery: "you are speaking truth to power, you are laying down our swords." Where the original hymn marches, this one disarms.

"Dismantling our empires til each one of us is free" names systems, not just individual hearts, as what needs to change, and "your peace will make us one" repeats as the refrain that ties every verse's specific image back to the same claim.

Isaiah's vision of swords beaten into plowshares, nations no longer training for war, gives the song's disarmament imagery its scriptural root, and Paul's declaration that Christ himself is our peace, who has made formerly divided people one, gives the title its exact theological source. The repeated "Glory! Hallelujah!" keeps the song rooted in worship even while its lyrics stay focused on peace as something political as well as personal.