My Latest Composition

Here’s a song I wrote for church, but I meant it not to sound churchy. See what you think.

Can You Still . . . ?

I would be a perfect man…but I strayed.
Such a beautiful plan…I disobeyed.
Lord, I love you so much, so much.
But I don’t love you near enough.

Break my heart, turn my dreams to dust.
Tear away all I’ve built on pride, greed, and lust.
My faith is weak and my body won’t set me free,
But can you still make something beautiful…?
Can you still make something beautiful of me?

The world is such a colorful place…it turns to black.
Promises to take me away…won’t bring me back.
So many pretty things I love to touch,
It’s plastic, crude, disposable fluff.

 As I said implied in a previous post, I’m not interested in being a lightning bolt. Discussions on spirituality were not my aim with this posting. I merely wanted to share my musical endeavor.

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Just the Strings, Please…

I have been spoiled by MIDI. Back when you could download a MIDI rendition of about any popular piece of music, I liked to isolate tracks and try to figure out how a cool piece of music came together. I sometimes wish I could do that with live perfomances I see on TV, especially when there’s a great electronic-sounding bass line and the camera’s on a singer. I still want to know what the bass line looks like. And sometimes I wish I knew what the piano sounded like because I’m not hearing any piano.

Just out of curiosity, which kid in the Partridge Family could somehow sound like a string section?