To the Hilt

a song of interest

Is anyone else around here a fan of this song?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSNqZK4rvZw

*snicker*

far away

come, thou fount

Come, thou Fount of every blessing,  	
tune my heart to sing thy grace;  	
streams of mercy, never ceasing,  	
call for songs of loudest praise.  	

Teach me some melodious sonnet,  	
sung by flaming tongues above.  	
Praise the mount! I'm fixed upon it,  	
mount of thy redeeming love.   

Here I raise mine Ebenezer;  
hither by thy help I'm come;  
and I hope, by thy good pleasure,  	
safely to arrive at home.  	

Jesus sought me when a stranger, 
wandering from the fold of God;  
he, to rescue me from danger,  	
interposed his precious blood.   

O to grace how great a debtor  
daily I'm constrained to be!  	
Let thy goodness, like a fetter,  	
bind my wandering heart to thee.  	

Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,  	
prone to leave the God I love;  	
here's my heart, O take and seal it,  	
seal it for thy courts above.  

Is there irony in the fact that this song began to play itself over in my mind within a minute after hanging up with him tonight for what could be the last time? Or is it His way of comforting me? The last verse truly resonates with me as it says, "Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love. Take my heart, O take and seal it, seal it for Thy courts above."

Let this be my prayer.

on stars

"Stars" as sung by Switchfoot

Maybe I’ve been the problem
Maybe I’m the one to blame
But even when I turn it off and blame myself
The outcome feels the same

I’ve been thinking maybe I’ve been partly cloudy
Maybe I’m the chance of rain
And maybe I’m overcast
And maybe all my luck’s washed down the drain

I’ve been thinking about everyone, everyone
You look so lonely

But when I look at the stars, when I look at the stars
When I look at the stars, I see someone else
When I look at the stars, the stars
I feel like myself

Stars looking at a planet, watching entropy and pain
And maybe start to wonder
How the chaos in our lives could pass as sane
I've been thinking about the meaning of resistance
Of a hope beyond my own
And suddenly the infinite and penitent begin to look like home
I've been thinking about everyone, everyone you look so empty

But when I look at the stars, when I look at the stars
When I look at the stars, I see someone else
When I look at the stars, the stars
I feel like myself

Everyone, everyone feels so lonely
Everyone yeah everyone feels so empty

When I look at the stars,
When I look at the stars,
When I look at the stars,
I feel like myself
When I look at the stars
The stars
I see someone

hundred

I was browsing through the latest music selections, eyeing the lists up for songs that appeared to be clean and by bands I had not heard of. I rested upon the title, "Over My Head". It rang a bell. I selected it, listened. It was one that I recognized, but I had not recognized the name of the band: The Fray. I searched AOL's music database to see if I could listen to any of their other songs, and fortune favors the bold. ('Tis not a relevant statement, but for some reason my mind just dredged it up from unvisited depths.)  The Fray had apparently had a concert broadcast through AOL recently, and I was thereby able to view the video for each of their songs, deciphering them with a separate screen of lyrics supplied by their official site.

So far, what I have listened to has been fairly clean, and somewhat melancholy. It is also heavily piano-driven, something you don't find very often in today's popular music. (Well, actually, you don't find much in today's standards of popular music, but let's not get me started there.) One caveat: I wish he would open his mouth up a little bit more to pronounce some songs a little better. I'll cut him some slack, though: it is a concert, and he does happen to be playing the piano while he's singing (again, not something you see a lot of). The style reminds me somewhat of The Swift, a contemporary Christian band that features a lot of piano, but still has the soft rock sound.

They keep breaking into a guitar / piano duets and solos in various parts of their songs... if this is not just a concert exclusive, and they do so on the recorded versions... I need to buy their CD. They just went through a section with just the electric guitar and the piano, and you can see the fervor with which he is playing and... hmm. I don't know. It's just powerful. Now, for the purpose I was planning to post the lyrics of this latest gem:

Hundred
© 2003 Slade/Conway

The how I can't recall
But I'm staring at what once was the wall
Separating east and west
Now they meet amidst the broad daylight

So this is where you are, and this is where I am
Somewhere between unsure and a hundred

It's hard I must confess
I'm banking on the rest to clear away
Cause we have spoken everything
Everything short of I love you

You right where you are, from right where I am
Somewhere between unsure and a hundred

And who's to say it's wrong
And who's to say that it's not right
Where we should be for now

So this is where you are, and this is where I am
So this is where you are, and this is where I've been
Somewhere between unsure and a hundred

broken

Chris Daughtry's version was spinning in my head, and I needed to find the original. Here are the lyrics. They just.. fit.. right now.

"Broken" - Seether (featuring Amy Lee)

I wanted you to know I love the way you laugh
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain away
I keep your photograph and I know it serves me well
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain

'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away

You've gone away, you don't feel me, anymore

The worst is over now and we can breathe again
I wanna hold you high, you steal my pain away
There's so much left to learn, and no one left to fight
I wanna hold you high and steal your pain

[x2]
'Cause I'm broken when I'm open
And I don't feel like I am strong enough
'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away

'Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
And I don't feel right when you're gone away

You've gone away
You don't feel me here anymore