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V1
There's no one else to trust,
I trust you Lord
Of all that i might lust,
I long for you Lord
Bridge
Forever connected, securely protected; free
This world rejected, still you excepted me
Chorus
On my knees
Let nothing in me interfere
On my knees
Holy Spirit you are welcome here
On my knees
Make all resistance disappear
On my knees
Holy Spirit you are welcome here
V2
You formed me from the dust
I live by you Lord
This earth will fade and rust
But you renew me Lord
Bridge
Forever connected, Securely protected; free
This world rejected, still you accepted me
* I will give small descriptions of how the songs came about
in a few days.*
enjoy.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
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I am proud to be the first comment on this song.
"Of all the things I lust, I long for you, Lord."
Although I will write more about this later, I have come to realize since my trip to Africa this January that I lust mostly for me, and for the "stuff of earth" (see Rich Mullins). This song hits me where I hurts. I am with you. let nothing in me interfere. Let none of my lusts interfere. Not my work. Not my family. I don't want me to interfere with the work of God in my life. But "me" does.
"Stuff of earth competes for the allegience..." (see Rich Mullins)
So, this song resonates with me right now and I hope that it does with the rest of the listeners. I hope that those who found this song to speak to their hearts pass it on (and comment).
How many times do we really talk about our lusts? I mean, really.
"So if I stand, let me stand on the promise..." (Rich)
I'm not sure that I've ever felt more desperate toward God as now, and even still I feel like I took a sleeping pill.
If I didn't have His assurance that I am connected, secure, and free, I would close my eyes completely and sleep away.
My prayer lately has been for what this song is asking, "Make all resistance disappear" and "let nothing in me interfere."
Holy Spirit come wake me up!
I like it.
Thoughts pre-listening: Ok this might be a little clouded by the fact that I was reading the lyrics while Sexi Plexi by Jack Johnson was playing in the background and there are such interesting lyrical lyrics there, but I'm loving the way you play with sounds in your words, the way the tongue trips around with the "T" and "L" sounds in the first verse, and the "ED"'s in the bridge.
But more seriously, how can you not love the chorus. It tugs at my heart.
Post-listening: I think this might be one of my new fav songs. Loved the tempo, the chord "depth" (I don't know if that's even a term, I just like how they weren't plain ol chords). Had me singing along early on. Of course the 5th above :) It took me to a happy place in my heart, happy and thankful for that Spirit that loves me no matter what.
As much as I love jamming to the intensity and complexity of Mute Math, Jimmy Eat World, Muse and the like, there is just something soothing and "Godly" about an acoustic guitar and simple, yet profound, lyrics.
You formed me from the dust
I live by you Lord
This earth will fade and rust
But you renew me Lord
Good stuff.
"Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo"
-dogpound
"Make all my resistance disappear." To honestly long for that(and not interfere)! I find that the tendency to long for absence of resitance is when I am quiet, seeking. Noise is everywhere. Pulling, distracting. That sentence challenges me to a deeper place with Him. I dig it!
Nathan
nice guitar skills. and nice vocal variation in the end (i would maybe start this sooner?). i also think the verses and chorus are too musically similar..? that might just be my own preference. but it seems like you have the vocal range to make the chorus at least a third higher or something (for lack of better songwriting knowledge on my part).
i love that it's about aggressive rest. so often rest seems like something that you have to do passively--that it's stopping other stuff and not doing anything--but here it's a demand for the LORD to be in all and through all.
great comments.
here's a little tid bit.
i in no way am telling this for any other reason than to inform.
there is something special about this song to me, not because it is even one of my better songs but because of this:
I was at a prayer meeting, and a guy i know started a prayer, "there's no one else to trust, Lord, we trust you."
i immediately thought, hmm, could be in a song...
that night i am asleep and i have a dream, this is odd because i rarely remember any part of a dream. so this dream was also unique because there was no visual, only sound.
i heard me singing the chorus and i could hear other people, none individually discernable, singing along with me.
all i heard were the words, verbatim, of the chorus, with exactly the same tune as the song that i have on here.
so, the next morning i wake up and i instantly write the words to the chorus as they were in my head.
i go to work and it plays in my head all day.
i go home and write out the rest of the verses in about 10 minutes.
it takes another 15 to get the chords for what i already can hear inside and in 45 minutes total i am ready to record the thing.
i say this because i really did not write this song and in no way can i really take credit. Something else wrote this song and put it in my dream. it has never happened before and may never happen again.
i was weirded out for about two weeks after this whole event. frankly it's still wierd.
I don't know much about music and can't play any instruments, but I have such a passion for great music and I'm constantly searching for good worship music that I connect with on a deeper level. I absolutly loved the song, it seemed to capture me where I'm at right now. I love the simple acoustic without any other instruments, and the words and singing were great. I think that the story about how is was created is weird, b/c I felt like I could sing along with it before I had even completely listened to it. Thanks for sharing it.
Heidi
Wow. I LOVE this song. Heidi was right, I was singing along immediately. I can't wait to sing this in church, Matt! Strange how things work together. Not really strange, I guess, if you've been seeking God for a while - that's kind of the way He operates. God's been working on me quite a bit to take my level of trust in Him deeper, and I keep asking what response He wants from me. Then the message on Sunday is about what it would really look like in our lives if we really TRUSTED that what He says is true. I want to live like that. Let nothing in me interfere.
Oh, and the music is perfect. How can it not be when it's a God thing? What a blessing.
i think what i get most from it is the part about telling the Holy Spirit that it is welcome. So often, i get ready, and set everything up to worship Him but forget to say, by the way, you are welcome to come in and enjoy because this is for you. It's like throwing a birthday party and just expecting the person to show up without directly inviting them.
Does the Spirit know i am singing to it...yes. Will it recieve it..i think so. Does God still like me to make send and invite.
the answer is yes, i think God loves it when we welcome Him, even if it seems a silly thing to do.
I like the simplicity of it, it has a deep message without being unduly verbose.
Cindy
I like that last comment, Matt. We should be more diligent and excited about inviting God. Sometimes I wish our church used a liturgy and that invitation would be part of it every Sunday.
Sorry, one technical thing: did you mean 'excepted' or 'accepted'? I know some of the calvinist bents of commenters-I'll leave them unnamed and chosen- but wasn't sure if that's meaning you had for the lyrics.
When I heard I thought about people on the Road to Emmaus with Jesus urging him to stay with them longer because their hearts burned within them.
Holy CRAP!!! Martha, good eye. I totally missed the word usage. Even if that is a typo, then consider this...
In my field of work, we often argue that certain classes of people are "excepted" from a statutory provision. They are removed from the law.
What about the idea that the World has rejected us because of our beliefs; however, by belief, God has forever excepted us from the guilt and the punishment set up by the statutes of old. He has excepted us from the law of sin.
I think this is worth exploring. I think it would be cool to write a short blog on this idea and post it with the song again.
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