Until Jesus Calls Me Home

I've slowed the passage right down and for the life of me I cannot hear "God's sweet eye of songs". My thoughts ... "sweet eye of songs" doesn't really fit the rest of the lyrics - being the only fairly obvious metaphor in what is otherwise a pretty direct, literal song.

There's a gap in the phrasing after what sounds like a soft landing of "sweet" and then he starts singing the next word with something that sounds like a D.

So if it is "sweet eye", the phrasing reads like "God's swee/[gap]/teye", which seems unusual considering the absolute vocal mastery on display throughout the rest of the song.

Finally, what is said to be "eye of" rolls through three notes, and ends on a soft N sound. Which again, would be very strange if Sam somehow didn't stick the landing on a F sound on the word "of".

It sounds very much like "God's sweet dying songs" - but while that seems to fit what is audible, it doesn't make much sense at all.

But I also can't accept the "sweet eye of songs" reading which seems to be the only reading circulating anywhere online.

So I rather think the line is "God's sweet [?] songs"

eye IN songs? Any ideas?

It's Zion songs.

I stretched the phrase out over a sequence of slower and slower repetitions and sounded out what I was hearing with the phrase on loop and I realized I was saying Zion.

The "D" sound isn't a T on "sweet" that's for some reason tacked on to the start of the word "eye" - it's just hitting the Z in Zion hard enough that it sounds like dZion. Try saying it! Saying it slowly if trying to hit the Z softly you end up saying sZion. If you come at the Z a little harder - come up at it from the throat - you get dZion (or even nZion). But you can't really slow it down - The Z needs to come out at a sufficient pace that the s/d/n sounds slur together and you get Zion.

Zion songs.