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Wash Me Clean
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Nov 9, 2026 updated
Peace To All Who Enter Here album
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Song Meaning
Water carries the opening of Josh Garrels' "Wash Me Clean": the singer asks to be washed, dried "in the warm sun," cleansed of "all iniquity" and baptized "in the Holy Spirit sea." The petitions are plain and personal, covering the heart, the mind and the soul, with a plea that wickedness would flee.
A short refrain then widens the view from one person to creation. Barren fields sprout trees, the deaf and blind hear and see, and the dead "raise and begin to breathe." Those lines echo the restoration promised in Isaiah 35, and the second verse keeps asking for restoration, peace and light in the dark, ending on the "sweetest song I've ever known."
The closing lines turn to the groaning earth and the sons of God who "declare to be the full and glorious family," close to Paul's picture in Romans 8 of creation waiting for the children of God to be revealed. Personal cleansing and cosmic renewal sit side by side, so the prayer for one heart reads as part of a much larger rescue.
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Wash me clean
In the warm sun dry me
Cleanse my heart
From all iniquity
Baptize me
In the Holy Spirit sea
Renew my mind
That wickedness may flee
Barren fields will sprout trees
Deaf and blind will hear and see
Dead will raise and begin to breathe
Restore my soul
Holy Spirit take hold
Bathe me in
Your peace and let it flow
Grant me hope
In the dark have your light shown
Sing your love
The sweetest song I've ever known
Barren fields will sprout trees
Deaf and blind will hear and see
Dead will raise and begin to breathe
Earth groans in pain to see
Sons of God declare to be
The full and glorious family