The contrast is the center of the song: fire and covenant above, gold and mixture below. Moses doesn't excuse the sin, but he returns to YAHUAH in fasting and intercession for the people and for Aaron.
Scripture connections: Deuteronomy 9:9-10,18-20; Exodus 32:4-5
Lyrics
Smoke kissed the summit
Gold bit the sand
Bread left the prophet
Water left his hand
Word fell from Shamayim
While the calf took its stand
Covenant weight
On a fasting man
Above the finger carved command into stone
Below old bondage started asking for a throne
Delay lit the question
Pressure found a priest
YAHUAH spoke covenant
The camp crowned a beast
We The Assembly
Let's go
Covenant weight
Mixture below
Fire on the mountain
Gold in the soul
No bread in his mouth
No water in his hand
One man fell low
For a stiff-necked camp
Covenant weight
Tables in his hand
Fire wrote the Word
While the calf took a stand
Don't call it clean
When the command said no
Covenant weight
Mixture below
Moses went up
Where the thunder had a voice
Where the cloud had a border
And flesh had no choice
Forty days under weight
Forty nights in the flame
No bread on his tongue
But the Word fed the man
No water in his body
But the commandment flowed
Two tables in the fire
And the covenant was known
His hunger ain't image
His weakness ain't show
That's a man under weight
Where Qodesh words go
The camp couldn't see him
But the mountain still spoke
The prophet was receiving
What the people almost broke
We The Assembly
YAHUAH
Read
Deuteronomy chapter nine verses nine through ten
When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone
Even the tables of the covenant which YAHUAH made with you
Then I abode in the mount forty days and forty nights
I neither did eat bread nor drink water
And YAHUAH delivered unto me two tables of stone
Written with the finger of ALUAH
But down at the bottom
The silence got loud
Delay started preaching
To a restless crowd
They said make us mighty ones
Make something we can see
The man that brought us upward
Where could he be
Gold came from bondage
Now bondage had a face
Mitsrayim left their feet
But hid inside their praise
Aaron felt pressure
The people pressed hard
But pressure in the camp
Doesn't cancel the charge
He shaped it with tools
Then gave it a place
Built it an altar
Put a feast on its face
They didn't say
We hate YAHUAH
That would've made it plain
They borrowed Name language
And attached it to shame
That's how mixture moves
It doesn't always curse
Sometimes it sings loud
With rebellion in the verse
We The Assembly
YAHUAH
Read
Exodus chapter thirty two verses four through five
And he received them at their hand
And fashioned it with a graving tool
After he had made it a molten calf
And Aaron built an altar before it
And Aaron made proclamation and said
Tomorrow is a feast to YAHUAH
Who gave rebellion an altar
Who gave the calf a day
Who dressed old bondage up
And called it the way
Who put feast on the mouth
But command on the floor
Who said the Name with the lips
While the form went to war
Don't call the calf clean
Cause the feast got a Name
If the form wasn't commanded
Then the fire ain't the same
Don't bring old worship reflex
Into covenant space
Don't put Mitsrayim's shadow
On a delivered face
Then Moses came down
With the tables in hand
Mountain still trembling
Sin in the camp
He saw the calf
He saw the dance
He saw covenant bleeding
In the people's hands
The stone hit the ground
Cause the people broke first
The idol got burned
And the gold met thirst
He ground down the thing
They had lifted up high
Made the camp drink the witness
Of the lie they called clean
Then he turned back upward
Not soft with the sin
Didn't hide the guilt
Didn't make it thin
He fell before YAHUAH
With fear in the breach
No bread in his mouth
No water in reach
He prayed for the people
He prayed for Aaron too
Wrath stood at the border
But intercession moved
Moses wasn't excusing
He was telling the truth
Carrying covenant weight
For a camp with no fruit
We The Assembly
YAHUAH
Read
Deuteronomy chapter nine verses eighteen through twenty
And I fell down before YAHUAH as at the first
Forty days and forty nights
I did neither eat bread nor drink water
Because of all your sins which ye sinned
For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure
Wherewith YAHUAH was wroth against you to destroy you
And YAHUAH was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him
And I prayed for Aaron also
Covenant weight
Mixture below
Fire on the mountain
Gold in the soul
No bread in his mouth
No water in his hand
One man fell low
For a stiff-necked camp
Don't call it clean
When the command said no
Covenant weight
Mixture below
The mountain had covenant
The camp had mixture
Moses didn't rename the sin
He carried covenant weight before YAHUAH
Don't call the calf clean
Don't give rebellion an altar