Category: <span>Music</span>

Published September 30, 2009 by

Sometimes it pays to listen again

I call you
From the comet’s cradle
I found you
Trembling by yourself
When the night falls
Lightly on your right-wing shoulder
Wonderful know-it-all
Slightly where the night gets colder

Oh, conscience,
Where will you carry me?
I found you
Star of terrifying effigies
When the night falls
I carry myself to the fortress
Of your glorious cost
Oh, I may seek your fortress

When the night falls
We see the star of wonder
Wonderful night falls
We see you
We see you

I see the stars coming down there
Coming down there to the yard
I see the stars coming down there
Coming down there to my heart

I see the stars coming down there
Coming down there to the yard

These days, days, days run away
Like horses over the hills

Sufjan Stevens

and beautiful visualisations of his music

Christianity Music

Published September 2, 2009 by

To lighten your day

Curiosity was far greater than our fear
It felt so simple, so prodigious at the same time

Incredible things are happening in the world
Magical things are happening in this world

Across the river there are all kinds of magical instruments
While we really keep on living like monkeys

Incredible things are happening in the world
Magical things are happening in this world, yeah

-Peng! 33 (Iron & Wine)

Music Words

Published July 21, 2009 by

Beginning

A year and half ago I was close to convincing my little sister to sing a version of the song below We are a Beginning at our wedding – in the end we chose a My Friend the Chocolate Cake song (slightly adapted) which suited the voices/band (or something) better. I really love these words. I was listening the other day and thinking about how they are applicable to the start of each day. I love the concept of rest (Not just because I love my bed so much!), but the idea of stopping everything: thought, action etc. and in some way starting over again when you wake up. Or stopping in the middle of the day for a period long enough to find a cleaner angle, one centered properly on God who is not bound by time. We too rarely or consciously do this.

May our standing ask permission
To be a kind of benediction
To a love we know is bigger than ourselves

The spirit and your witness
Is bearing light upon our weakness
Giving weight to what we cannot see alone

We come with what we are
We come with what we’ve done
We come with what we are
We are a beginning

In faith we look to Comfort
She is laying her old hands upon our souls as we discover
We are waking more to hope

Your committed celebration
Is part of our salvation
Holding on to what we know we cannot hold alone

Because we are not that strong
Sometimes afraid of what we’ve done
We are not that strong
But we are a beginning

We are a beginning

Pray for the bravery
To act upon the kindness of forgiveness
And the mystery of clarity sometimes
Mercy is grateful to go under all our failures
Thanks be to Christ for severity
That’s kissed us on our cheeks

May our standing ask permission
To be a kind of benediction
To a love we know is bigger than ourselves

Because we are not that strong
Most times afraid of what we’ve done
Oh we are not that strong
But we are a beginning

We are a beginning
We are a beginning
We are a beginning

Christianity Life Music

Published June 20, 2009 by

Laughing With


About a month ago I tried posting this music video (or the song rather) but it was, unbeknown to me a dodgy one and so it got pulled from You-tube. Here’s the real deal. I really love this song, I think it’s very telling. Christians should start listening to more music than they find in Koorong (Their Christian bookshop). Yes the rare moment there can be good – thanks to those brutally honest guts like Derek Webb, (Who’s music has been booted out of such stores before), but there is a world waiting to be discovered where God exists in more beautiful and mysterious ways. As for being subtle, this song is not particularly so but could be taken a number of ways, there is something about it that rings clear with honesty.

Life Music

Published June 12, 2009 by

Rebecca Songs

I have found a Rebecca song! It is by Iron & Wine and I rather like it. Know any other ‘Rebecca’ish’ songs? Wow I’m self indulgent.

Belated Promise Ring

Sunday morning, my Rebecca sleeping in with me again
There’s a kid outside the church kicking a can
When the cedar branches twist she turns her collar to the wind
The weather can close the world within its hand

And my mother says Rebecca is as stubborn as they come
They both call to me with words I never knew
There’s a bug inside the thimble, there’s a band-aid on her thumb
And a pony in the river turning blue
They say,” Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take”
My Rebecca says she never wants a boy
To be barefoot on the driveway as they wave and ride away
Then to run inside and curse the open door

I once gave to my Rebecca a belated promise ring
And she sold it to the waitress on a train
I may find her by the phone but with a fashion magazine
She may kiss me when her girlfriends leave again
They say, “Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take”
I think I could never love another girl
To be free atop a tree stump and to look the other way
While she shines my mother’s imitation pearls

Sunday evening my Rebecca’s lost a book she never read
And the moon already fell into the sea
Saw the statues of our fathers in the courthouse flower bed
Now they blend with all the lightning-tattered trees
They say, “Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take”
My Rebecca said she knew I’d want a boy
A dollar for my boardwalk red balloon, to float away
She would earn a pocketful to buy me more

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