Sunday, August 5, 2007

Scorched

Here is the song I was talking about- it's pasted from Word, but wasn't typed double space, so I don't know what the deal is. Stupid HTML text. Anyway, here it is-


Scorched

You said “I know just where you’ve been,”

“Backslidden, caught in sin”

But I don’t care, ‘cause it ain’t fair

The way my heart’s been worse for wear

So here I am, just a man

Without a purpose without a plan

Tired of seeking for the truth

The flower of faith has lost its youth

How can you tell me I’ve slid so far

When you can’t see yourself for who you are

The accusations of pride you throw at my feet

Are the same demons that have got you beat

You can feed a wasted homeless man

But you look down on me whenever you can

You love the lost and you love the lame

But you can’t love your brother in the name

I opened my heart up and let you in

Let you go where no one has been

You said “I love the sinner, but hate the sin”

Well I must be blind, or have missed somethin’

‘Cause I said “I’m sorry, forgive me please”

I was humbled before God’s law on my knees

How could you say “turn the other cheek” to my face

When you couldn’t do it with live and grace

6 comments:

David said...

Aw dammit! This thing is totally screwed up format wise. Whatever, it still is legible. The stanzas (8 lines apiece) were supposed to be separated.

Anonymous said...

That's ok, David...it's an awesome song!

David said...

Thanks. Maybe I'll figure out a way to record it and display it as an MP3 file somehow on the blog. But my MP3 player, the only thing I have that can record stuff, is broken :( .

Snoyarc said...

I'll try to see if I have something that can help you out, would LOVE to hear this!

Hugs & Love

David said...

"Scorched" is going through a serious revision right now, because I finally tried to sing the whole thing the way I had intended, and either I'm REALLY out of shape OR it's too wordy, because I get out of breath trying to sing it!

I need to pare some of the lines down and rearrange the lyrics so they're a little coherent. The problem is that changing the number of lines per measure messes with the instrumental aspect...even writing simple songs like this one is not easy.

Snoyarc said...

I know, people think music must be easy to write, but it isn't... I've done one or two songs myself... and you see how motivated I am to do another one!

If you are feeling moved to do this though do it... and I'll be praying for the final outcome.

Hugs & Love