Title: Christian song - Save the Family Post by: MarioD on March 29, 2017, 05:55:34 PM SteveS is one fantastic Christian poet and in fact is in the process of assembling his poems for his first publication. He wrote this for a song. BobH and myself put the music together and Steve sang it.
Save the Family Lyrics and vocal by StephenS Background tracks by BobH and MarioD Yet another young person is killed At the hands of a empty soul Both of these lives are gone Their family suffers the toll A father steals to feed his family From God, he cannot hide If he'd given his heart to Jesus Jesus would surly provide There are so many lives in turmoil today Is it because, We forgot how to pray Satan is so happy, when things go "his way" So many end up, with his "hell to pay" In all of my years What I've seen that has changed The lords become optional Isn't that strange Family's were strong When we prayed everyday Now family s are week And the further we stray With no moral compass We have nothing to hide We mistreat our neighbor And still we feel pride We can turn our backs On a brother in need So we can have more Satan named that "greed" So many have become blind Or they, choose not to see There is only one way To end all this misery We must put Jesus first In our lives, everyday And go back to the old way And "relearn" how to pray Let us love our neighbor As we love ourselves Let us put all of our sadness Back on satan's shelf Let us return to the days When family's were strong Let us pray to the Lord That we all get along!! Title: Re: Christian song - Save the Family Post by: folderol on March 30, 2017, 02:26:00 PM Sorry, this just doesn't work for me.
Religion is a highly personal thing, and to have one specific pushed so hard seems wrong. I've known some wonderfully caring people with no apparent faith beyond a belief in humanity. Title: Re: Christian song - Save the Family Post by: MarioD on March 31, 2017, 01:39:43 PM I hear you Will and I totally agree with you. I hesitated a couple of weeks prior to posting this one. I only did post this because SteveS is a very good friend of mine and hopefully get some feedback on the backing tracks.
I've known some wonderfully caring people with no apparent faith beyond a belief in humanity. As have I. I believe there is a big difference between spirituality and organized religion. peace Title: Re: Christian song - Save the Family Post by: offthewall on April 02, 2017, 03:55:15 PM I got to agree with Will here about the 'message'.
The music, however, I feel has some elements that don't work too well. The chorus sections have plenty of drama but I think the verse sections could do with that choir taken out and some other element added instead. Not sure what would work but possibly piano could do it. There also seems to be a lot of background hiss here which detracts somewhat. Title: Re: Christian song - Save the Family Post by: Daniel Pompougnac on October 09, 2017, 10:50:42 PM I think religions are the worst things that have happened to humanity, a kind of black hole that has frozen and frozen progress, intelligence and tolerance.
So, I try to forget the lyrics of this song and I'm only interested in what I hear, the sound, the melody, the ambience of the song. Strangely enough, I like and it reminds me in some ways of a singer-songwriter that I really like, Robert Wyatt. Very strange piece. |