Every now and then, a song comes along that feels less like a performance and more like a prayer — a piece of music that doesn’t just entertain but intercedes. Eddy Mann’s “It’s Time, Lord,” released October 6, 2025, is one of those songs. Drawing inspiration from Psalm 7, Mann delivers a heartfelt and timely message that balances pastoral compassion with prophetic urgency, reminding listeners that the world’s wounds can’t be healed without divine intervention and human humility.
Mann, a seasoned Philadelphia-based singer-songwriter and worship leader, has long built his music around the intersection of faith and everyday life. On “It’s Time, Lord,” he brings those sensibilities into sharp focus. The song’s refrain — “It’s time, Lord, it’s time / It’s time to an end to the violence” — is as simple as it is devastating. It’s the kind of lyric that doesn’t require explanation. You feel it. You hear it on the news, see it in your community, and carry it in your spirit. Mann captures that ache and turns it heavenward.
Musically, “It’s Time, Lord” is built around the ukulele, Mann’s chosen instrument of peace. Its gentle strumming serves as the anchor for a full, yet unobtrusive production — bass, percussion, and atmospheric textures that move with quiet purpose. The arrangement is tastefully restrained, letting Mann’s voice and message lead. That balance — between beauty and burden — is where the song lives. It’s polished enough to sit comfortably in contemporary Christian playlists, yet honest and raw enough to belong in the lineage of socially aware folk gospel.
Mann’s voice is neither booming nor flashy, but there’s a spiritual authority in its softness. He sings with the kind of conviction that doesn’t need volume. His tone conveys empathy, grief, and hope in equal measure — a pastor’s heart in a troubadour’s frame. As the song unfolds, the prayer deepens: “Hear our humble prayer… Shield our weary hearts…” Each repetition feels like a deepening of the soul’s cry. It’s worship through lament, a sacred discipline that modern Christian music too often overlooks.
From a theological standpoint, “It’s Time, Lord” functions as both lamentation and confession. It’s a song that acknowledges human complicity in the world’s brokenness while yearning for the renewal only God can bring. Mann doesn’t point fingers outward — he points upward and inward. The spiritual posture of the song echoes the prophets, who cried out not in judgment but in solidarity with a fallen people. That makes “It’s Time, Lord” not just a prayer for peace, but a call to repentance and action.
There’s a rare courage in a song this gentle. In a culture saturated with spectacle, Mann offers sincerity. “It’s Time, Lord” doesn’t aim for the charts — it aims for the conscience. And in doing so, it fulfills one of the deepest callings of Christian artistry: to give voice to the voiceless, to pray for those who’ve forgotten how, and to remind us that God’s presence is often found not in the thunder, but in the still small strum of faith.
–Bryan Combs
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