The Castle Wall

Hello again. Or does this feel like the first time? Ha, that song always made me laugh. "The first time what?", I ask. The first time you held hands? Aw that's cute. But what does "won't you open up the door" mean exactly? Hmm. Maybe we'll never know.

However, when you consider the first verse of that song, it seems like that was the "I've heard it said" that Mac Powell of Third Day was thinking of when he wrote their Love Song.

Anywho. Yet another song comes forth. This was the 2nd or third original song that I wrote, and I dusted it off and changed some things around and still think is simply OK. Nothing special, but not bad either.

Actually, now that I think about it. It was the first song that I composed as a part of "The Pact" with Lukas and Tatum, but I guess I'll have to do a post about that in and of itself at some point.

This one is called The Castle Wall and is all about the differences between me and God. Me being broken and flawed, Him being perfect and good.

The first verse is the idea about how I'm stuck fumbling through life, often out of step, but still headstrong. And then there's God who perfect and outside of the whole space/time continuum that I exist in, and yet "jumped in the stream" so to speak, to save us.

The chorus just suggests that a plan of that sorts is sort of ludicrous (This is culture that we live in. I spelled that ludacris without a second thought until spell check took a look).

Verse 2 is a bit of a whopper grammatically, but the idea is once again the differences between me and God. My heart literally "beats" so it works, but I break other peoples hearts with my selfishness, stupidity, etc. His heart, (which one could make the case probably doesn't exist in the physical sense) fails in one sense because it empties all it has (life blood) but heals the world at the same time, because it is full of grace. Kinda complicated, but I couldn't think of a better way to say that.

And finally Verse 3 is just the problem of knowing that your broken and flawed, but in pride lying to yourself and the world and building walls around yourself with expectations and promises that you can't keep. Who would climb the "castle wall"? Well my friend. Jesus did. Good news :)

Anyway, that's the gist.

Hope you enjoy. Comments are always appreciated. Even if they are, "That was mediocre."



The Castle Wall

verse1
there’s me who’s dancing out of time
oh so lost but full of steam
and you who dance outside of time
but swim within its stream

chorus
and i cannot see
our similarity
no this cannot be
the plan
one so perfect in
his divinity
that would come and live
with man

verse2
my heart beats, but often fails
for broken hearts it makes
your heart empties all it has
life blood rich with grace

chorus2
and i cannot see
our similarity
no this cannot be
the plan
one so perfect in
his divinity
that would live and die
for man

verse3
steeped in weakness, but feigning strength
my boasts have hemmed me in
who would climb this castle wall
just to reach the mess within

chorus3
and i long to see
some continuity
between what I believe
and do
cause one so perfect in
his divinity
took my old and made it new