Music and Lyrics

"Music is transferable. Sounds and words and thoughts that were someone else's creation find lodging in your chest. Music speaks of universal things. That's why your lungs swell and your eyes close and you force as much air as possible through your vocal chords whenever you encounter a song that expresses what is your life." "One note can express a hundred emotions, depending on its context. And a single note becomes a different note with a different color depending on the room or setting where it is sounded. It resonates or fades in different ways, bouncing around or dying off. It's thrilling."

David Crowder

I would call myself a music snob for the most part. I HAVE to be in charge of the radio and I don't put my car in gear to drive until the right tune is playing. Though I'm not a musically talented person by any stretch of imagination. I can play just simple worship songs on the guitar and I played the trumpet in jr. high. But music is an important part of my life. Worship music, country music, mellow music, gangster rap. I'm all there. And lyrics. Oh man do I love lyrics. I've always said that David Crowder WILL lead worship in heaven. He is a geneous with words because they go deep and they are based on scripture. That above quote is from his book, "Praise Habit" and I think I could read that book everyday if I had time. The Psalms are my favorite book of the Bible and he goes through some of them in that book. He talks honestly about worship and how it's not to be confined to singing, but music is his thing and it moves his soul and we should let it do the same to us. Because God made it to be beautiful and I'm glad we get to worship with voices and notes and beautiful instruments. I would love to have a conversation with David and just talk to him about where his mind goes when he writes a song. To be that intelligent and that creative and that in-tune with the Lord. I'm just rambling now. sorry.

It just so happens that I have a song that I'm usually obsessed with for about a week at a time. Not necessarily a new song. Actually, most of the time they aren't new at all. Just a song that gets my attention for a while and I can't stop listening to it for whatever reason. I'll try to share them with you each time, just so you can know my opinion. Since you don't get enough of that already from this blog :)

This weeks obsession song: "Sleeping to Dream" by Jason Mraz