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Holy

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Song Meaning

Dunsin Oyekan's "Holy" opens by directly quoting Isaiah's temple vision — "In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord, and the glory of the Lord fill the temple" — before the song does anything else, setting the whole piece inside a specific biblical scene rather than a generalized worship mood. The verses stay inside that vision: glory everywhere, angels ascending and descending, worship rising to the throne, echoing both Isaiah's seraphim and Jacob's ladder. The chorus borrows the seraphim's own words back — "Holy, Holy is the Lord of Host" — turning the congregation into the choir standing in that throne room rather than an audience singing about it. What makes the song distinct is its extended bridge, which stops describing the vision and starts arguing a theology of declaration: "How to be Holy is to declare Him Holy, because as you declare that He is Holy, it just rubs off on you." That's a specific claim — holiness as something transferred through the act of naming it — which is why the song spends so long simply repeating "Holy, Holy" in English, Yoruba ("Mimo Mimo l'oruko re" — Holy, Holy is Your name), and tongues. The repetition isn't filler; it's the mechanism the bridge just described being carried out in real time.

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In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord

And the glory of the Lord fill the temple

Verse

I can See the Glory of the Lord

All over and everywhere

I can See the Glory of the Lord

All over and everywhere

I can See Angels all around

Ascending and Decending

I can See worship going to the Throne

And Jesus, Glorified

Chorus

So We cry Holy, Holy is

The Lord of Host

Holy, Holy

We cry Holy, Holy is

The Lord of Host

Holy, Holy

Verse

I can See the Glory of the Lord

All over and everywhere

I can See the Glory of the Lord

All over and everywhere

I can See Angels all around

Ascending and Decending

I can See worship going to the Throne

And Jesus, Glorified

Chorus

(So we cry Holy)

We cry Holy, Holy is

The Lord of Host

Holy, Holy

We cry Holy, Holy is

The Lord of Host

Holy, Holy

We cry Holy, Holy is

The Lord of Host

Holy, Holy

We cry Holy, Holy is

The Lord of Host

Holy, Holy

We cry Holy, Holy is

The Lord of Host

Holy, Holy

We cry Holy, Holy is

The Lord of Host

Holy, Holy

We cry Holy, Holy is

The Lord of Host

Holy, Holy

We cry Holy, Holy is

The Lord of Host

Holy, Holy

(So we cry)

We cry Holy, Holy is

The Lord of Host

Holy, Holy

We cry Holy, Holy is

The Lord of Host

Holy, Holy

We cry Holy, Holy is

The Lord of Host

Holy, Holy

We cry Holy, Holy is

The Lord of Host

Holy, Holy

[Bridge]

Holy, Holy

(Mimo Mimo L’oruko re)

Holy, Holy

(I declare You are)

Holy, Holy

We cry Holy, Holy is

The Lord of Host

Holy, Holy

I cry Holy,

I cry Holy, Holy

How to be Holy is to declare Him Holy

Because as You declare that He is Holy

It just rubs off on You, That’s all

You are Holy

This is Your moment, You are Holy

Father, You are Holy

You are Holy, Jesus

(Speaking in Tongues)

You are Holy, Jesus

Olorun agbaye o, You are Holy

Olorun agbaye o, You are Mighty

Olorun agbaye o, You are Powerful

You are merciful

Everybody say we cry Holy

We cry Holy, Holy is

The Lord of Host

Holy, Holy

We cry Holy, Holy is

The Lord of Host

Holy, Holy

Holy

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