Mining Secular Music for Biblical Nuggets

[GWH]

I have always loved music (cf. EPH 5:19). In this thread I would like for folks to share lyrics from secular songs that seem to be spiritual or at least compatible with Christian morals (LK 9:50). Following the lyrics a few words of explanation might be helpful. As an example, I cite a song by my favorite secular musical group since I was a teenager in the 1960s, the Beach Boys, that was played at my wedding: “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”.

Wouldn't it be nice if we were older?
Then we wouldn't have to wait so long
And wouldn't it be nice to live together
In the kind of world where we belong?
You know it's gonna make it that much better
When we can say goodnight and stay together

Wouldn't it be nice if we could wake up
In the morning when the day is new?
And after having spent the day together
Hold each other close the whole night through
Happy times together we've been spending
I wish that every kiss was never ending
Oh, wouldn't it be nice?

Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray
It might come true (run, run, we-ooh)
Oh, baby, then there wouldn't be a single thing we couldn't do
We could be married (we could be married)
And then we'd be happy (and then we'd be happy)
Oh, wouldn't it be nice?

You know it seems the more we talk about it
It only makes it worse to live without it
But let's talk about it
But wouldn't it be nice?
Goodnight, my baby
Sleep tight, my baby

Nuggets I mine from this song along with Biblical context include:

1. It is nice or blessed to wait until marriage to live together as a married couple. (MT 19:4-6, EPH 4:17 & 5:3)

2. Thinking, wishing, hoping and praying worked for me (EPH 6:18). Soon after I had been praying to meet “Miss Right”, my future soulmate was encountered, dated/waited for 5 years, married and still having happy times together after 50+ years.

 

[maxwel]

I have always loved music (cf. EPH 5:19). In this thread I would like for folks to share lyrics from secular songs that seem to be spiritual or at least compatible with Christian morals (LK 9:50). Following the lyrics a few words of explanation might be helpful. As an example, I cite a song by my favorite secular musical group since I was a teenager in the 1960s, the Beach Boys, that was played at my wedding: “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”.

Wouldn't it be nice if we were older?
Then we wouldn't have to wait so long
And wouldn't it be nice to live together
In the kind of world where we belong?
You know it's gonna make it that much better
When we can say goodnight and stay together

Wouldn't it be nice if we could wake up
In the morning when the day is new?
And after having spent the day together
Hold each other close the whole night through
Happy times together we've been spending
I wish that every kiss was never ending
Oh, wouldn't it be nice?

Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray
It might come true (run, run, we-ooh)
Oh, baby, then there wouldn't be a single thing we couldn't do
We could be married (we could be married)
And then we'd be happy (and then we'd be happy)
Oh, wouldn't it be nice?

You know it seems the more we talk about it
It only makes it worse to live without it
But let's talk about it
But wouldn't it be nice?
Goodnight, my baby
Sleep tight, my baby

Nuggets I mine from this song along with Biblical context include:

1. It is nice or blessed to wait until marriage to live together as a married couple. (MT 19:4-6, EPH 4:17 & 5:3)

2. Thinking, wishing, hoping and praying worked for me (EPH 6:18). Soon after I had been praying to meet “Miss Right”, my future soulmate was encountered, dated/waited for 5 years, married and still having happy times together after 50+ years.

Well that's a pretty obscure Beach Boys song from an album that took 35 years to go gold.

You need to get out more.
: )
.

 

[GWH]

Well that's a pretty obscure Beach Boys song from an album that took 35 years to go gold.

You need to get out more.
: )
.

True, but as long as we are on this topic, allow me to present the lyrics of the A side of that single, "God Only Knows", which contains an obvious Biblical nugget:

I may not always love you
But long as there are stars above you
You never need to doubt it
I'll make you so sure about it
God only knows what I'd be without you

If you should ever leave me
Well, life would still go on, believe me
The world could show nothing to me
So what good would living do me?
God only knows what I'd be without you

If you should ever leave me
Well, life would still go on, believe me
The world could show nothing to me
So what good would living do me?
God only knows what I'd be without you

The Biblical context could be that the threefold mention of God connotes the Trinity (MT 28:19).

Or that only God knows what will occur (MT 24:36).

If one views the song as a paeon to God, the repeated verse expresses the vanity of life without God (ECC 1:2),
or without resurrection to heaven all is meaningless (ECC 3:19, 1CR 15:19).

Who else wants to mine a secular song for spiritual/biblical nuggets, not necessarily intended by the composer?

 

[maxwel]

Lost Artists & Spiritual Truths:

Brian Wilson was an extraordinary musical genius, but a bit of a nutter on religion and metaphysics, not to mention all the the strange ideas flowing from his mental illness and drug abuse problems.

So I wouldn't try to glean much theological insight from Brian Wilson.

However, I think that all men: exist in a world created by God, walk around in a body designed by God, and live in a universe governed by principles from God. And on top of all that, they are all born with a conscience to understand right and wrong.
Because of all this, lost men can often say things that ALIGN WITH BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES, even while remaining quite lost.

So I think we can sometimes find a biblical principle, or a spiritual truth, in music or art created by lost men.

.

 

[posthuman]

I have always loved music (cf. EPH 5:19). In this thread I would like for folks to share lyrics from secular songs that seem to be spiritual or at least compatible with Christian morals (LK 9:50). Following the lyrics a few words of explanation might be helpful. As an example, I cite a song by my favorite secular musical group since I was a teenager in the 1960s, the Beach Boys, that was played at my wedding: “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”.

Wouldn't it be nice if we were older?
Then we wouldn't have to wait so long
And wouldn't it be nice to live together
In the kind of world where we belong?
You know it's gonna make it that much better
When we can say goodnight and stay together

Wouldn't it be nice if we could wake up
In the morning when the day is new?
And after having spent the day together
Hold each other close the whole night through
Happy times together we've been spending
I wish that every kiss was never ending
Oh, wouldn't it be nice?

Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray
It might come true (run, run, we-ooh)
Oh, baby, then there wouldn't be a single thing we couldn't do
We could be married (we could be married)
And then we'd be happy (and then we'd be happy)
Oh, wouldn't it be nice?

You know it seems the more we talk about it
It only makes it worse to live without it
But let's talk about it
But wouldn't it be nice?
Goodnight, my baby
Sleep tight, my baby

Nuggets I mine from this song along with Biblical context include:

1. It is nice or blessed to wait until marriage to live together as a married couple. (MT 19:4-6, EPH 4:17 & 5:3)

2. Thinking, wishing, hoping and praying worked for me (EPH 6:18). Soon after I had been praying to meet “Miss Right”, my future soulmate was encountered, dated/waited for 5 years, married and still having happy times together after 50+ years.

coincidentally i woke up this morning, with that song in my head

thank you for the insight, and good thread topic =]

 

[posthuman]

Saloman hung down her head
Laid bare her heart for the world to see.
She craved for intimacy.
Through darkened doors her aspect veiled with indecision, gazed out sea.
She craved lucidity.
Cast adrift from past relationships in her life,
Hoisted up the ideal. This was her saving grace.
Seas of rage that once assailed her concern for the truth
Had passed her by and left her high and dry in her saviours arms.
Across the sea lies the fountain of renewal,
Where you will find the whole cause of your loneliness
Can be measured in dreams that transcend all these lies
And I wish and I pray that there may come a day for a saviours arms.

​

Dead can Dance is an Australian dark wave group consisting of two singers, who alternate on songs, Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. both have been very tight lipped about their beliefs, but Brendan seems to lean towards some sort of polytheistic new-age spiritualism, while Lisa was raised a charismatic Christian and has never said anything publicly counter to those roots. in fact, a defining characteriatic of her singing ((not featured in this song)) is that she sings in a seemingly made-up language, using her voice peculiarly as an instrument rather than a narrator - - which has drawn speculative parallels to speaking in tongues for her entire career, something she doesn't care to comment about exhaustively, save that it is her own language, expressing her deepest emotions.

Nevertheless, the songwriting between the two of them does have at least a cultural Christian influence from Lisa's input. we see that in this beautiful song, from their early material, which, as i understand it, describes a woman ((named with a derivative of Solomoy, denoting the wisdom of her ways)) having reached a point of melancholy from disappointment in love, stemming from internal knowledge of an ideal love ((1 Cor. 13)), having lifted Him up ((the Son of Man must be lifted up)) as The Ideal - - which she was not able to find among men.
this disillusionment brought her to a state in which her only solace is in her Saviour ((guess Who)) - - Who alone is an ideal love -- because of her persistent pursuit of Truth ((guess Who)).
the narrator/singer describes this human condition with hope, speaking of a fountain that exists, across the sea ((a metaphor of dying)), which of es renewal ((a metaphor of the resurrection)) in the arms of her Savior - - Who is The Truth, and Who is perfect Love, and Who erases loneliness, and longing for Whom, is the ultimate cause of loneliness:

tthat we know Him, in our heart, that we don't find Him on earth, that we miss Him, and that we come to Him.

i also wish, and i also pray, that there hasten the day for the Saviors arms

 

[posthuman]

Lisa was raised a charismatic Christian and has never said anything publicly counter to those roots. in fact, a defining characteriatic of her singing ((not featured in this song)) is that she sings in a seemingly made-up language, using her voice peculiarly as an instrument rather than a narrator - - which has drawn speculative parallels to speaking in tongues for her entire career, something she doesn't care to comment about exhaustively, save that it is her own language, expressing her deepest emotions.

lots of typos in previous post, my apologies. getting old and using a little phone to post.

but to give an example of Lisa's singing which i having mentioned, would be remiss not to exhibit: the opening track of the same album - - the only discernable lyrics of which:

embrace the love so fair
​

with which i am confident none of us as believers in The Way can disagree with. yet, she says more, and yet, only this.

enjoy

 

[GWH]

Lost Artists & Spiritual Truths:

Brian Wilson was an extraordinary musical genius, but a bit of a nutter on religion and metaphysics, not to mention all the the strange ideas flowing from his mental illness and drug abuse problems.

So I wouldn't try to glean much theological insight from Brian Wilson.

However, I think that all men: exist in a world created by God, walk around in a body designed by God, and live in a universe governed by principles from God. And on top of all that, they are all born with a conscience to understand right and wrong.
Because of all this, lost men can often say things that ALIGN WITH BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES, even while remaining quite lost.

So I think we can sometimes find a biblical principle, or a spiritual truth, in music or art created by lost men.

.

Correct, which is what I am encouraging folks who like some secular music to do on this thread.
Because I like the BBs, I am sad that they were not Christians as far as I know. Some of them liked transcendental meditation.

 

[GWH]

coincidentally i woke up this morning, with that song in my head

thank you for the insight, and good thread topic =]

You're welcome. Do you have a lyric with a nugget to share?

 

[GWH]

Saloman hung down her head
Laid bare her heart for the world to see.
She craved for intimacy.
Through darkened doors her aspect veiled with indecision, gazed out sea.
She craved lucidity.
Cast adrift from past relationships in her life,
Hoisted up the ideal. This was her saving grace.
Seas of rage that once assailed her concern for the truth
Had passed her by and left her high and dry in her saviours arms.
Across the sea lies the fountain of renewal,
Where you will find the whole cause of your loneliness
Can be measured in dreams that transcend all these lies
And I wish and I pray that there may come a day for a saviours arms.

​

Dead can Dance is an Australian dark wave group consisting of two singers, who alternate on songs, Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. both have been very tight lipped about their beliefs, but Brendan seems to lean towards some sort of polytheistic new-age spiritualism, while Lisa was raised a charismatic Christian and has never said anything publicly counter to those roots. in fact, a defining characteriatic of her singing ((not featured in this song)) is that she sings in a seemingly made-up language, using her voice peculiarly as an instrument rather than a narrator - - which has drawn speculative parallels to speaking in tongues for her entire career, something she doesn't care to comment about exhaustively, save that it is her own language, expressing her deepest emotions.

Nevertheless, the songwriting between the two of them does have at least a cultural Christian influence from Lisa's input. we see that in this beautiful song, from their early material, which, as i understand it, describes a woman ((named with a derivative of Solomoy, denoting the wisdom of her ways)) having reached a point of melancholy from disappointment in love, stemming from internal knowledge of an ideal love ((1 Cor. 13)), having lifted Him up ((the Son of Man must be lifted up)) as The Ideal - - which she was not able to find among men.
this disillusionment brought her to a state in which her only solace is in her Saviour ((guess Who)) - - Who alone is an ideal love -- because of her persistent pursuit of Truth ((guess Who)).
the narrator/singer describes this human condition with hope, speaking of a fountain that exists, across the sea ((a metaphor of dying)), which of es renewal ((a metaphor of the resurrection)) in the arms of her Savior - - Who is The Truth, and Who is perfect Love, and Who erases loneliness, and longing for Whom, is the ultimate cause of loneliness:

tthat we know Him, in our heart, that we don't find Him on earth, that we miss Him, and that we come to Him.

i also wish, and i also pray, that there hasten the day for the Saviors arms

Haunting music. Dark Wave genre is new to me. Thanks for sharing!

 

[GWH]

lots of typos in previous post, my apologies. getting old and using a little phone to post.

but to give an example of Lisa's singing which i having mentioned, would be remiss not to exhibit: the opening track of the same album - - the only discernable lyrics of which:

embrace the love so fair
​

with which i am confident none of us as believers in The Way can disagree with. yet, she says more, and yet, only this.

enjoy

Similar music. I guess I hear a resemblance with New Wave genre. Establishes a peaceful mood for meditation. Good nugget. Thanks.

 

[ResidentAlien]

My question is what were they doing just before they had to say goodnight and go their own separate ways.

 

[GWH]

My question is what were they doing just before they had to say goodnight and go their own separate ways.

Be careful lest you be guilty of projection (although we may practice eisegesis by mining biblical nuggets not necessarily intended by the writer of the lyrics :^)

Got a song?

 

[PAC-fit]

"Logical Song"
1980​

When I was young
It seemed that life was so wonderful
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical
And all the birds in the trees
Well they'd be singing so happily
Oh joyfully, oh playfully watching me​

But then they sent me away
To teach me how to be sensible
Logical, oh responsible, practical
And then they showed me a world
Where I could be so dependable
Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical​

There are times
When all the world's asleep
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man​

Won't you please
Please tell me what we've learned
I know it sounds absurd
Please tell me who I am​

I said now what would you say
Now we're calling you a radical
A liberal, oh fanatical, criminal​

Oh won't you sign up your name
We'd like to feel you're acceptable
Respectable, oh presentable, a vegetable!​

Take, take, take it​

But at night, when all the world's asleep
The questions run so deep
For such a simple man
Won't you please
Won't you tell me​

Please tell me what we've learned
Can you hear me
I know it sounds absurd
Why won't you help me
But please tell me who I am
Who I am, who I am, who I am​

Painfully obvious applications, yet good observations of a young convert. Though barely beyond my teens when Supertramp emerged with a strong niche, today, the charismatic co-founder has reason to believe their productions “connects deeply with the fans”.

1.The whole earth is full of His glory! Isa 6:3
2.Train up a child in the way he should go, ,’’ Prov 22:6
3.‘’, , they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 1 Thes 5:2
4..‘’, , approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed 2 Tim 2:15

Others? Feel free.

 

[GWH]

"Logical Song"
1980​

When I was young
It seemed that life was so wonderful
A miracle, oh it was beautiful, magical
And all the birds in the trees
Well they'd be singing so happily
Oh joyfully, oh playfully watching me​

But then they sent me away
To teach me how to be sensible
Logical, oh responsible, practical
And then they showed me a world
Where I could be so dependable
Oh clinical, oh intellectual, cynical​

There are times
When all the world's asleep
The questions run too deep
For such a simple man​

Won't you please
Please tell me what we've learned
I know it sounds absurd
Please tell me who I am​

I said now what would you say
Now we're calling you a radical
A liberal, oh fanatical, criminal​

Oh won't you sign up your name
We'd like to feel you're acceptable
Respectable, oh presentable, a vegetable!​

Take, take, take it​

But at night, when all the world's asleep
The questions run so deep
For such a simple man
Won't you please
Won't you tell me​

Please tell me what we've learned
Can you hear me
I know it sounds absurd
Why won't you help me
But please tell me who I am
Who I am, who I am, who I am​

Painfully obvious applications, yet good observations of a young convert. Though barely beyond my teens when Supertramp emerged with a strong niche, today, the charismatic co-founder has reason to believe their productions “connects deeply with the fans”.

1.The whole earth is full of His glory! Isa 6:3
2.Train up a child in the way he should go, ,’’ Prov 22:6
3.‘’, , they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 1 Thes 5:2
4..‘’, , approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed 2 Tim 2:15

Others? Feel free.

I'm pretty sure I have heard that song before. The rhyme and music fit well as I remember. The internal conflict indicated reminds me of RM 7, especially v. 21-23, "I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me..."

 

[GWH]

Who Will Answer

From the canyons of the mind
We wander on and stumble blindly
Through the often tangled maze
Of starless nights and sunless days
While asking for some kind of clue
Or road to lead us to the truth
But who will answer?

Side by side two people stand
Together vowing, hand in hand
That love's imbedded in their hearts
But soon an empty feeling starts
To overwhelm their hollow lives
And when they seek the how's and why's
Who will answer?

On a strange and distant hill
A young man's lying very still
His arms will never hold his child
Because a bullet running wild
Has struck him down and now we cry
"Dear God, oh, why, oh, why?"
But who will answer?

High upon a lonely ledge
A figure teeters near the edge
And jeering crowds collect below
To egg him on with, "Go, man, go!"
But who will ask what led him
To his private day of doom
And who will answer?

If the soul is darkened
By a fear it cannot name
If the mind is baffled
When the rules don't fit the game
Who will answer? Who will answer? Who will answer?
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

In the rooms of dark and shades
The scent of sandalwood pervades
The colored thoughts in muddled heads
Relining in the rumpled beds
Of unmade dreams that can't come true
When we ask what we should do
Who, who will answer?

'Neath the spreading mushroom tree
The world revolves in apathy
As overhead, a row of specks
Roars on, drowned out by discotheques
And if a secret button's pressed
Because one man has been outguessed
Who will answer?

Is our hope in walnut shells
Worn 'round the neck with temple bells
Or deep within some cloistered walls
Where hooded figures pray in halls?
Or crumbled books on dusty shelves
Or in our stars, or in ourselves
Who will answer?

If the soul is darkened
By a fear it cannot name
If the mind is baffled
When the rules don't fit the game
Who will answer? Who will answer? Who will answer?
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

(Sung by Ed Ames)

 

[Cameron143]

Who Will Answer

From the canyons of the mind
We wander on and stumble blindly
Through the often tangled maze
Of starless nights and sunless days
While asking for some kind of clue
Or road to lead us to the truth
But who will answer?

Side by side two people stand
Together vowing, hand in hand
That love's imbedded in their hearts
But soon an empty feeling starts
To overwhelm their hollow lives
And when they seek the how's and why's
Who will answer?

On a strange and distant hill
A young man's lying very still
His arms will never hold his child
Because a bullet running wild
Has struck him down and now we cry
"Dear God, oh, why, oh, why?"
But who will answer?

High upon a lonely ledge
A figure teeters near the edge
And jeering crowds collect below
To egg him on with, "Go, man, go!"
But who will ask what led him
To his private day of doom
And who will answer?

If the soul is darkened
By a fear it cannot name
If the mind is baffled
When the rules don't fit the game
Who will answer? Who will answer? Who will answer?
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

In the rooms of dark and shades
The scent of sandalwood pervades
The colored thoughts in muddled heads
Relining in the rumpled beds
Of unmade dreams that can't come true
When we ask what we should do
Who, who will answer?

'Neath the spreading mushroom tree
The world revolves in apathy
As overhead, a row of specks
Roars on, drowned out by discotheques
And if a secret button's pressed
Because one man has been outguessed
Who will answer?

Is our hope in walnut shells
Worn 'round the neck with temple bells
Or deep within some cloistered walls
Where hooded figures pray in halls?
Or crumbled books on dusty shelves
Or in our stars, or in ourselves
Who will answer?

If the soul is darkened
By a fear it cannot name
If the mind is baffled
When the rules don't fit the game
Who will answer? Who will answer? Who will answer?
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah

(Sung by Ed Ames)

Ed Ames that played Mingo in Daniel Boone?

 

[Edify]

I have always loved music (cf. EPH 5:19). In this thread I would like for folks to share lyrics from secular songs that seem to be spiritual or at least compatible with Christian morals (LK 9:50). Following the lyrics a few words of explanation might be helpful. As an example, I cite a song by my favorite secular musical group since I was a teenager in the 1960s, the Beach Boys, that was played at my wedding: “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”.

Wouldn't it be nice if we were older?
Then we wouldn't have to wait so long
And wouldn't it be nice to live together
In the kind of world where we belong?
You know it's gonna make it that much better
When we can say goodnight and stay together

Wouldn't it be nice if we could wake up
In the morning when the day is new?
And after having spent the day together
Hold each other close the whole night through
Happy times together we've been spending
I wish that every kiss was never ending
Oh, wouldn't it be nice?

Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray
It might come true (run, run, we-ooh)
Oh, baby, then there wouldn't be a single thing we couldn't do
We could be married (we could be married)
And then we'd be happy (and then we'd be happy)
Oh, wouldn't it be nice?

You know it seems the more we talk about it
It only makes it worse to live without it
But let's talk about it
But wouldn't it be nice?
Goodnight, my baby
Sleep tight, my baby

Nuggets I mine from this song along with Biblical context include:

1. It is nice or blessed to wait until marriage to live together as a married couple. (MT 19:4-6, EPH 4:17 & 5:3)

2. Thinking, wishing, hoping and praying worked for me (EPH 6:18). Soon after I had been praying to meet “Miss Right”, my future soulmate was encountered, dated/waited for 5 years, married and still having happy times together after 50+ years.

Sorry, I cannot agree with you.
WHY would I search for spiritual things in a cesspool or a garbage can of filth?
Rock music was created by the Devil. Anything he inspires would be absolute rebellion against God.
Let's not fool ourselves... it is what it is.
To me it's like looking in Hell's flames for Jesus.
He's not there.

 

[Ballaurena]

I have always loved music (cf. EPH 5:19). In this thread I would like for folks to share lyrics from secular songs that seem to be spiritual or at least compatible with Christian morals (LK 9:50). Following the lyrics a few words of explanation might be helpful. As an example, I cite a song by my favorite secular musical group since I was a teenager in the 1960s, the Beach Boys, that was played at my wedding: “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”.

Wouldn't it be nice if we were older?
Then we wouldn't have to wait so long
And wouldn't it be nice to live together
In the kind of world where we belong?
You know it's gonna make it that much better
When we can say goodnight and stay together

Wouldn't it be nice if we could wake up
In the morning when the day is new?
And after having spent the day together
Hold each other close the whole night through
Happy times together we've been spending
I wish that every kiss was never ending
Oh, wouldn't it be nice?

Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray
It might come true (run, run, we-ooh)
Oh, baby, then there wouldn't be a single thing we couldn't do
We could be married (we could be married)
And then we'd be happy (and then we'd be happy)
Oh, wouldn't it be nice?

You know it seems the more we talk about it
It only makes it worse to live without it
But let's talk about it
But wouldn't it be nice?
Goodnight, my baby
Sleep tight, my baby

Nuggets I mine from this song along with Biblical context include:

1. It is nice or blessed to wait until marriage to live together as a married couple. (MT 19:4-6, EPH 4:17 & 5:3)

2. Thinking, wishing, hoping and praying worked for me (EPH 6:18). Soon after I had been praying to meet “Miss Right”, my future soulmate was encountered, dated/waited for 5 years, married and still having happy times together after 50+ years.

For me it was always the song, by The Backstreet Boys, I think...

I don't care who you are, what you did, where you've been, as long as you love me.

It always sounded like Jesus singing about how my past is forgiven, he just wants relationship with me now.

My church had an emphasis for a while on finding love songs to help us understand more fully what love is. The elders all liked John Denver's You Fill Up My Sense.

 

[Ballaurena]

Also, I had a season that God was speaking to me through music and musicians. One of the most special parts was when God sang this song to me: