The Lyrical Dump

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crosstweed

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wwjd_kilden said:
This is an entire poem, but it's short. One of my favorites of all time:

Stevie Smith- Not Waving But Drowning



Nobody heard him, the dead man,
But still he lay moaning:
I was much further out than you thought
And not waving but drowning.

Poor chap, he always loved larking
And now he's dead
It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way,
They said.

Oh, no no no, it was too cold always
(Still the dead one lay moaning)
I was much too far out all my life
And not waving but drowning.
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Our pastor's father mentioned in church how that happened to him once when he was young... He was out in the water and going under and no one realized anything was wrong. He wasn't saved at the time but he started praying and God landed him on the beach. He said he had no idea how God did it, but He did..
 
Dino246

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You know you're getting tired of American political rhetoric when you read the thread title as, "The Lyrical Trump". ;)
 
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crosstweed

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Dino246 said:
You know you're getting tired of American political rhetoric when you read the thread title as, "The Lyrical Trump". ;)
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LOL
"And now it's time for 'Silly Songs with Donald'... the part of the show where Donald gets up and sings... a silly song."
*polka music ensues*
 
AbigailZeke

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I've also always found myself retreating to this song when I feel down, the lyrics are just so... real (this is a little long too):

You could plant me like a tree beside a river
You could tangle me in soil and let my roots run wild
And I would blossom like a flower in the desert
But for now just let me cry

You could raise me like a banner in the battle
Put victory like fire behind my shining eyes
And I would drift like falling snow over the embers
But for now just let me lie

Bind up these broken bones
Mercy bend and bring me back to life
But not before you show me how to die

Set me like a star before the morning
Like a sun that steals the darkness from a world asleep
And I'll illuminate the path You've laid before me
But for now just let me be

Bind up these broken bones
Mercy bend and bring me back to life
But not before You show me how to die
No, not before You show me how to die

So let me go like a leaf upon the water
Let me brave the wild currents flowing to the sea
And I will disappear into a deeper beauty
But for now just stay with me
God, for now just stay with me

(Audrey Assad, "Show Me")
 
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wwjd_kilden

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If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill
Be a scrub in the valley--but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush if you can't be a tree.
(...)
Be the best of whatever you are

- Douglas Malloch
 
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Ultimatum77

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crosstweed said:
Exactly! Just going to be honest... you don't really get much Gospel or practical help from the newer songs. I mean, some of them are really good for worshiping to and have a helpful, positive message, but with an awful lot of them (not all of them) if I were an unbeliever who started listening to Christian music, I don't think I would get enough Gospel for it to make an impact. Or even as a Christian, practical help from them... the old hymns are so much soul-searching.
[video=youtube;zY5o9mP22V0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY5o9mP22V0[/video]
(These old hymns are definitely worth discussing! :eek: )
It Is Well makes me weep like a baby. I don't know if you've ever read some of the stories behind these hymns, but a lot of them were written in immense heartache. It Is Well was written by Horatio Spafford and composed by Philip Bliss. Spafford's 2 year old son died, he was ruined financially in the Chicago fire, and all four of his daughters were killed in a Europe-bound shipwreck in the Atlantic 2 years later. He wrote the words to It Is Well as he crossed the Atlantic near the place where the shipwreck had happened, just as went to go meet his wife in Europe who had survived the shipwreck.
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Yes! I love reading the backstory of these hymns and was familiar with the one for "It is well" amazing how a tragedy can spawn such a deep emotional hymn and to think he said "It is well" after having your family taken like that is just beyond words at how he could still say that.

My favorite hymn website is hymnary.org
It gives a summary of the person who wrote the song and sometime the story behind the song....also a great place to learn new hymns...

Oh, how he loves me ( I have a friend, a precious friend) is a recently new hymn I learned and blogged about....really good lyrics...

I have a friend, a precious friend, O how - Hymnary.org
 
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skylove7

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Awesome thread Crosstweed!
Sorry I didn't see it!
I have enjoyed reading
Thanks everyone!
 
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wwjd_kilden

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Chaos screaming, chaos dreaming,
gotta do more, gotta be more.

Lonely thinking, lonely feeling,
gotta do more, gotta be more.

Only this world, as I was always told,
gotta do more, gotta be more.

- ? (I heard it in the movie Dead Poets Society )
 
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Siberian_Khatru

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Shining like a work of art
Hanging on a wall of stars
Are you what I think you are?

You're my satellite

Maybe you will always be
Just a little out of reach

You're my satellite​

- Satellite, by Guster​
(^ a snippet from the tune that reminds me of some feelings I may or may not have for someone.)​
 
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psychomom

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O no; it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests, and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

-Shakespeare sonnet 116
 
Dude653

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I find the more I think i know, the more i find i don't, every answer opens up so many questions
Anarchy sounds good to me till someone asks who'd fix the sewers, or would the rednecks just be king of the neighborhood?
Dead Kennedys
 
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