THEY WILL BE SET FREE
Poem lyrics by Victor Hafichuk
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan 1976
Melody by John Capek October 2021
Lyrics modified slightly for song by John Capek in October 2021
I wrote a poem, The Call in Prince Albert in 1976. Forty-five years later, in October of 2021, I sent it to John Capek in Nashville to see if he wished to do anything with it. Within 2 days, he returned it to me with a melody and chorus. He sang the lyrics, added a chorus, and renamed the work, They Will Be Set Free. The introduction of the original poem was as follows:
The Call
Little did I know when the Lord told me He would show me His people through His eyes that I was one of those people, that I would be shown not only by seeing as an observer but as partaker as well. And He too is a partaker of the sufferings of His people. “I am hurting, I am hurting!” He said to me. I know too well the pain, the death and hell we must all face, the iniquity we must be shown in ourselves and be purged of by fires. I have identified and do identify with His people. I just did not think, though I surely believed I was His, that I was, by nature, a partaker of all the sins and vanities of His people and therefore a partaker of the fruits of them as well.
When the Lord shows one something, He shows him not by mere observation but subjection. Only then can we know, understand, and relate.
One day while praying…. quite dignified
I was forced… to be relieved
And in an old cabin, the Lord. signified
What in me.. He had conceived.
I will show you My people by My eyes
Their suffering and sorrow you’ll see
They live in weeping and gnashing and cries
But proclaim that they are free.
CHORUS
I will show you My people by My eyes
Their suffering and sorrow you’ll see
Yet all evil will fail from this world one day
Within Christ… they will be set free
They will be set free.
In their stoves burns no fire…. to give them heat
…The wind blows through the walls
From broken glasses… and broken plates they eat
..And off its hinges the front door falls.
Their power is void while idols abound
Vain professions are on their tongue
No floor ‘neath their feet covers the ground
Their possessions are no more than dung.
CHORUS
I will show you My people by My eyes
Their suffering and sorrow you’ll see
Yet all evil will fail from this world one day
Within Christ. they will be set free
They will be. set free.
These are His people…. the Lord lets me see
People for whom He does hurt
His desire for them…. is that.. they be free
Raised up to the sky from the dirt.
“A critic you are,” said one man to me
I didn’t like the thought
But now a critic I know I must be
Though for this I have not sought.
CHORUS
I will show you My people by My eyes
Their suffering and sorrow you’ll see
Yet all evil will fail from this world one day
Within Christ they will be set free
They will be set free.
INTERLUDE
CHORUS
I will show you My people by My eyes
Their suffering and sorrow you’ll see
Yet all evil will fail from this world one day
Within Christ they will be set free
They will be set free.
The Truth.. I desire. in my.. innermost being
Not only for me but for others
But Satan comes and keeps them…. from seeing
And life in their hearts he smothers.
Yet one day will come when all evil will fail
From this world in Christ
The righteous will be the head not the tail
When they’ve come to their sacred tryst.
CHORUS
I will show you My people by My eyes
Their suffering and sorrow you’ll see
Yet all evil will fail from this world one day
Within Christ they will be set free
They will be set free.
CHORUS
I will show you My people by My eyes
Their suffering and sorrow you’ll see
Yet all evil will fail from this world one day
Within Christ they will be set free
They will be set free.
They will be.. set free
They will be. set free….
