Late nights and song lyrics
It's now 4:33 in the morning.
I'm working on a "take-home final" which is the nice way of saying what we want from you can't be crammed into the 2 hour exam period.
As it sits right now I have an 10 page (10 pt. font with 1" margins)
reference guide on Deut. 32 that has been cross referenced to the
entire book of Jeremiah, with my comments, different commentators notes
and references, and some other mish-mash that might be construed as a
thesis and eventually some kind of conclusion about why it's all
important. Or something.
I'm growing weary of the topic.
To sustain myself I'm listening to Becoming the Archetype
Now, it may sound like a box full of rusty metal going through a wood chipper - but technically they are staggering. Odd numbered time signatures that change every few bars between verse and chorus. Keeps the brain off balance. Fun stuff. This is also juxtaposed by beautiful classical acoustic pieces.
One of the things that makes me pause though is their lyrics.
They're nearly old hymns!
For example:
The earth is shaking
Because of His wrath
The mountains tremble
At the sound of His voice
He pulls down the sky
To crush His enemies
He descends upon them with fire
He is clothed in greatness
His voice resounds throughout the earth
His vengeance no longer is contained
His light destroys the darkness
If He speaks the earth will crumble
If He moves the universe will fall
- He is clothed in greatness
- His voice resounds throughout the earth
With the valleys of the seas exposed
And the surface of the earth laid bare
He reached down into the void
HE REACHED DOWN AND TOOK HOLD OF ME!
HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH!
Maybe it's because they're metal. Maybe it's more than that. I don't know. But all of their songs exude a boldness and reverence that the overwhelming majority of the stuff I have to sit through in Chapel everyday just cannot begin to hold a candle too. It's refreshing. In a heavy drop-tuned guitar, double bass drum, long haired, tattooed, tool-chest-falling-down-a-flight-of-stairs kind of way.
Onward to more Jeremiah.
I'm working on a "take-home final" which is the nice way of saying what we want from you can't be crammed into the 2 hour exam period.
As it sits right now I have an 10 page (10 pt. font with 1" margins)
reference guide on Deut. 32 that has been cross referenced to the
entire book of Jeremiah, with my comments, different commentators notes
and references, and some other mish-mash that might be construed as a
thesis and eventually some kind of conclusion about why it's all
important. Or something.
I'm growing weary of the topic.
To sustain myself I'm listening to Becoming the Archetype
Now, it may sound like a box full of rusty metal going through a wood chipper - but technically they are staggering. Odd numbered time signatures that change every few bars between verse and chorus. Keeps the brain off balance. Fun stuff. This is also juxtaposed by beautiful classical acoustic pieces.
One of the things that makes me pause though is their lyrics.
They're nearly old hymns!
For example:
The earth is shaking
Because of His wrath
The mountains tremble
At the sound of His voice
He pulls down the sky
To crush His enemies
He descends upon them with fire
He is clothed in greatness
His voice resounds throughout the earth
His vengeance no longer is contained
His light destroys the darkness
If He speaks the earth will crumble
If He moves the universe will fall
- He is clothed in greatness
- His voice resounds throughout the earth
With the valleys of the seas exposed
And the surface of the earth laid bare
He reached down into the void
HE REACHED DOWN AND TOOK HOLD OF ME!
HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH!
Maybe it's because they're metal. Maybe it's more than that. I don't know. But all of their songs exude a boldness and reverence that the overwhelming majority of the stuff I have to sit through in Chapel everyday just cannot begin to hold a candle too. It's refreshing. In a heavy drop-tuned guitar, double bass drum, long haired, tattooed, tool-chest-falling-down-a-flight-of-stairs kind of way.
Onward to more Jeremiah.