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Complete 1975-2006: Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the Future
Hymn

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Patti Smith Group

Hymn

Release date: 1st May 1979

From Complete 1975-2006: Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the Future

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About This Track

"Hymn" is a track by Patti Smith Group, from the album Complete 1975-2006: Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the Future, released 1st May 1979. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

Hymn

[Verse]

When I am troubled in the night

He comes to comfort me

He wills me through the darkness

And the empty child is free

To take his hand, his sacred heart

The heart that breaks the dawn, amen

And when I think I've had my fill

He fills me up again

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Track details

From Complete 1975-2006: Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the Future

1979

Album

Complete 1975-2006: Lyrics, Reflections & Notes for the Future

Patti Smith Group

Release year

1979

—Poppies
—Broken Flag
—25th Floor
—Fire of Unknown Origin
—Come Back Little Sheba
—Ghost Dance
—Easter
—Citizen Ship
—Distant Fingers
—Hymn
—Godspeed
—Radio Ethiopia/Abyssinia
—Pumping (My Heart)
—Seven Ways of Going
—Revenge
—Pissing in a River
—Path That Cross
—Wave
—Somalia
—Space Monkey

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Credits

Writer: Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith
Producer: Todd Rundgren
Credited: Lenny Kaye, Patti Smith, Todd Rundgren