Showing posts with label song. Show all posts
Showing posts with label song. Show all posts

Monday, October 12, 2009

Purity Song

I was singing in the shower tonight (after all, it has the best acoustics in the house) and trying to come up with some new lyrics. So I juggled around a few phrases, converted them into lines, had nice long pauses in between while attempting to rhyme; all the usual business of my songwriting moments. 
But one chorus did stick out to me as a keeper. I don't know what I'll do with it, but I liked the lines and the tempo I used. I had just watched Taylor Swift's music video to "Fifteen" and had been considering the lack of purity in teenage girls nowadays. This is what came to mind.

"Don't give yourself away,
Wait for that special day.
When you are his and he is yours
The license signed
Then you can close the door.
But not before."

It's pretty simple lines, perhaps over-used, but I liked how they fit together. And of course, it's a message that never gets old. It needs to be heard. So many girls are giving away the precious gift God bestowed on them simply because they feel insecure and unloved. If they could only realize that they are forever loved by their Creator.

Monday, September 14, 2009

God's Tears

This is a song I wrote half while in bed when I should have been sleeping and half while in church service when I should have been listening. However, although I wasn't doing what I should have been doing, I like the result.

God's Tears

Teardrops of heaven
Falling from God's eyes
To touch the world that needs
Spread the love He holds inside

Love 
Raining down
In every drop from the sky
Waters the ground
Bringing hope
Renewing life
For a single drop becomes a flow
That turns to torrents ever so
Giving love to the farthest soul

Hallelujah love rains down
Hallelujah love rains down
Hallelujah love rains down
As God cries for the ones He loves

Teardrops of heaven 
Falling from my eyes
To touch the soul beside me
Spread the love I hold inside

Love 
Raining down
In every drop from my eyes
Touches the ground
As I worship God
Adore you Christ
And that single drop becomes a flow
Passing on so now I know
Give out love to the farthest soul

Hallelujah love rains down
Hallelujah love rains down
Hallelujah love rains down
As I cry for the one He loves