I cannot tell you how much I love the Wooden Heart album by Listener. Dan Smith's lyrics are amazing. I shared a bit of what I thought about the track Wooden Heart a while back, here.
However right now, their song You Were A House On Fire is what...is what is moving me...challenging me...helping me to see and understand the world a little better. Here's the audio.
The whole song is amazing, but the parts that really get to me is in the second verse. It reads:
We all write songs about life, we just sing them different.
you sing the words but you don't know the song
and you expect us all to sing along? how selfish.
- for me it speaks about thinking my way is the only way...that for a long time I have been "selfish"...not listening to the way others sing their songs...and because they don't sing it my way, it think it's wrong...that needs to change. basically, I need to listen better.
the lengths that we go to, to put so much distance between us is staggering
- here is pretty self explanatory. crazy how much time, $, & energy we spend to isolate ourselves from each other...and then just as much of the same trying to meet others...something is not right.
I can't decide if I should knock down your door or on it say the word and I'll take an axe to your heart or a pin prick
- this part is just full of emotion that i don't know why, but connects with me. just the conflict he is struggling with as to how to rescue this person. should he come crashing in? or wait to be invited in?
cut right through the dark, let it spill out the contents on our knees sorting through the remnants pour out your hate in my hands, I'll let em slip through my fingers - i just love the the 3rd line here. beautiful.
You can find the whole song w/ lyrics here at Listener's Bandcamp Page...and while you're there you can check out the rest of their album as well!
Also, here's a live performance of the song with a little intro to the song itself. And as you'll hear Dan say, "hope you love it."
So I've been trying to go through the bible this year with Youversion.com & it's been pretty good, I must say. I do miss my readings some times, but so far, I've been able to catch up on most of them. One thing that I feel has been a theme for me this year is 'to remember' because as one lyric from Listener's Wooden Heart says, "We only have what we remember"...and I don't want to be robbed (or rob myself) of what the LORD has given me (family, friends) and what He has been showing me in this season of my life. Now, there are a few...well, maybe a lot...of misspellings and grammar errors, so I apologize in advance. But as I've looked back, here is a small sample of what I feel the LORD has been showing me as I've read and journaled. Just click on the links below...and if you have any thoughts, let me know. I'd love to talk it out with you...cause I might be still working through some of it myself.
To those of you who read the blog from time to time, you probably have heard this one already. But for those of you who have just started reading...this'll be new. I just uploaded another song.
It's called You & I and basically I wrote this for Tiana. Just to say that I love her and I always will love her no matter what lies ahead. Thanks for reading and thanks for listening!
- J
So I made a Facebook Musician/Band page and uploaded some songs...really rough demo's. 2 for church, 1 for Tiana. (side note: I messed up on some of the recordings, but I'm just way too lazy to do it all again...and not savvy enough to be all tricky like real sound engineers.)
Anyway, I'll be updating the blog from that page now instead of using the regular one, so if you want updates from Facebook it'd be better to 'like' the page. You can click here for the link, or up on that screen shot above.
