We Are Jonah

The Light...

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Hey guys (guy?), what up?

I'm kind of pumped, and I've got to tell someone!

Jerry and I have about finished recording our first song! Yay! It's called "The Light", and it is fairly typical "Nathan-style" muzak - acoustic rock that is most likely a little too confronting to be warmly welcomed anywhere but church, but a little too "grungy" to really be appreciated in church. Ho hum.

I do like it, though, because it is a deep, moody look at the metaphor of salvation as a "coming of the light", and because it honestly looks at what we humans generally do when faced with an uncomfortable experience like that - shut it out. It's full of awesome guitar riffs courtesy of Jerry, a pretty interesting vocal timing and lots of layered backing vocals by both Jerry and myself. I highly recommend it (of course).

When we're totally finished we're going to throw it onto MySpace - and yes, of course I'll link to it so ya'll can give it a listen - but in the meantime, let me share a small sample of the lyrics --

The light - so bright - like the sun in the height of
summer;
And we've shut our eyes so tight;
Because it
lights up all
our selfishness.

-- But the light
has shone;
In the dark, on our hearts;
And the light
has shone;
From the face of the Son of God, yeah.

Yeah, maybe you have to be there... but at least I think it sounds good.

Labels: God, lyrics, music

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