Lyrical Excerpts

I love how God puts music in our lives to encourage us...music is a way that our souls and spirits can really sing and glorify God.  Music has so much power and abilities inside of it, and God uses it every day to keep me on track with my many questions and struggles. 

Here is my experiment...I just put my iPod on shuffle.  I am going to use the lyrics of the first 5 songs that play and make my post.  If there aren't lyrics to the song, I will still write it down and describe the piece playing. 

From BarlowGirl's "Beautiful Ending"

Oh, why do I
Let myself let go
Of Hands that painted the stars
And hold tears that fall?
And the pride of my heart
Makes me forget
It's not me but You
Who makes the heart beat
I'm lost without You
And dying from me

So tell me
What is our ending?
Will it be beautiful
So beautiful?

Will my life
Find me by Your side?
Your love is beautiful
So beautiful

From Britt Nicole's "Set the World on Fire"

Take my dreams
Come and give them wings
Lord with You
Nothing I cannot do
Nothing I cannot do

My hands my feet
My everything
My life, my love
Lord, use me

From Lifehouse's "We'll Never Know"

Tell me all the dreams that you have left
Slip right through your hands
Do you feel lost inside of someone else's life

Failure is the only way to learn till you've come undone
The rest will never find out what they might have been

So don't tell me sometime just where did we go wrong, yeah

"Another World"  from the game soundtrack Chrono Trigger

This piece is instrumental, and has a very rhythmic background with a very simple melody on top of it.  It's honestly one of the most soothing pieces I have on my iPod, and it has a way of calming my anxiety and helping me find a place where I can be more focused on God.

Lastly, Jeremy Riddle's "Sweetly Broken"

To the cross I look, to the cross I cling
Of it's suffering I do drink
Of it's work I do sing

For on it my Savior both bruised and crushed
Showed that God is love
And God is just

At the cross You beckon me
You draw me gently to my knees, and I am
Lost for words, so lost in love,
I’m sweetly broken, wholly surrendered

What a priceless gift, undeserved life
Have I been given
Through Christ crucified

You’ve called me out of death
You’ve called me into life
And I was under Your wrath
Now through the cross I’m reconciled

In awe of the cross I must confess
How wondrous Your redeeming love and
How great is Your faithfulness

Enjoy, and praise God with the gift of music now and forevermore.