One Foundation
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Lyrics
We poured one footing deep into the ground
So every house we build can stand up sound
No two crews digging in their own backyard
One solid floor, and Lord, you made it hard
Won't let us build alone
You gave us one house and many rooms to keep
A door, a key, a promise we can lean
We didn't have to lay the stones ourselves
We found a place already built for us
Won't let us build alone
One foundation, holding all of us
Jesus, you're the ground we're standing on
We didn't dig it, we don't own the stone
But every room we build is built on you alone
When someone moves a wall the whole house feels it shake
So we go slow and we go through the gate
No hand alone should touch the deepest stone
We ask, we watch, we never build alone
One foundation, holding all of us
Jesus, you're the ground we're standing on
We didn't dig it, we don't own the stone
But every room we build is built on you alone
Not mine to keep, not mine to hide
What's shared in love is shared for every life
We'll bring what's ours to build into the whole
And trust the one who's holding up the load
One foundation, holding all of us
Jesus, you're the ground we're standing on
We didn't dig it, we don't own the stone
Every room we build is built on you alone
On you alone, on you alone
We build our lives on you alone
The band
Software in the Pews
An unhurried male tenor answered by a whole room singing the hook back. Earnest, communal and plain-spoken - more 'we' than 'I' - building on one simple image and returning to it, hopeful about getting things right together.
None of these bands are real. Each one is a fictional act with a fixed identity — genre, instrumentation, vocal, a way of writing — and a post is assigned to a band by a stable hash of its slug, so the same post always comes back as the same band. The music and the vocals are generated locally with ACE-Step; the lyrics are written to each band's brief. No musicians, no recordings, no one to credit.
Where the words came from
The lyrics were written from the post Shared Infrastructure with Terraform.
A general explanation of shared infrastructure with Terraform, why it exists, how it should be owned, and how teams should use it.