Here are the lyrics from two songs. One is a praise song very popular in American Evangelical churches (including, I suppose, many Lutheran churches). The other is by a weird, grad-school-square-glasses, ironic, Shaggs-like, super hip girl band. Which is which? Please explain your reasoning.
Remember: no fair Googling and no fair if you've heard either song.
+HRC
Song A
Keep it to myself
No way
He knows
What I know
He feels
What I feel
I'll tell the world
About the love that I found
Keep it to myself
No way
He sees
What I see
He feels
What I feel
I'll tell the world
About the love that I found
Keep it to myself
No way
He has
What no one else has
He knows
What no one else knows
I'll tell the world
About the love
The love
The love
That I found
Song B
The more i seek you,
the more i find you
The more i find you, the more I love you
I wanna sit at your feet
drink from the cup in your hand.
Lay back against you and breath, here your heart beat
This love is so deep, it's more than I can stand.
I melt in your peace, it's overwhelming
No clue. This is a wild guess. I'm going to say Song B is the Christian one. I'm basing it on the thought of John reclining on Jesus' breast on Thursday night, and the reference to a chalice (all the while recognizing the slim chance that there'd be a sacramental reference in one of these songs). But based on the first verse of Song B, it looks like Song A is a little better theologically.
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I have to agree with Susan, and the reference to sitting at someone's feet is also telling.
ReplyDeleteDo you have the sheet music for these? I'd like to pass them on to my Pastor. ;-)
I am also with Susan, but either way, either song, as a "praise" song is very creepy.
ReplyDeleteI will guess Song A is the "Christian" one only because it mentions telling someone else about the love.
ReplyDeleteYeah, A is the praise song.
ReplyDeleteOT1H (+): He has What no one else has
OTOH (-): He sees What I see He feels What I feel (Christocentric, not.)
Song B is the praise song. The phrase 'Melt in your peace' is a dead giveaway.
ReplyDeleteSong A is the Hip one. The short musical phrases are the give away there.
Song B is way too sacramental/incarnational to be a praise song.
ReplyDeleteSong A is the "praise song" because it talks abut "what I'm gonna do."
ReplyDeleteFor song B to be the praise song,it would have to add the word "just." "I JUST wanna..."
my guess, anyway.
Song B looks like a better praise song than Song A, but unfortunately that probably means that Song B is actually the 'hip' song. The part in Song B about leaning back and hearing the heart beat sounds like something lovers would say, not something one would say to God. On the other hand, the "keep it to myself, no way!" repetitive bit from Song A is remniscent of "This Little Light of Mine."
ReplyDeleteIn light of all these facts, I am 90% certain that Song A is the 'praise song.'
I don't like the implication that "weird, grad-school-square-glasses, ironic, Shaggs-like, super hip girl bands" can't write praise songs. Just because it hasn't caught on in many churches yet doesn't mean that it won't.
ReplyDeleteI vote for song A. And I want to know why you know either of these songs.
Well, I suspect that any long-time listeners to Table Talk Radio will spot the praise song right away. Thanks, however, for introducing me to the "weird, grad-school-square-glasses, ironic, Shaggs-like, super hip girl band". I kind of like that new genera of hip-folk-rock-fusion whatever you call it.
ReplyDeleteI googled it, my wife and I had a good laugh, including over the author, we were wrong on which was which, then after our laugh we felt very disturbed, almost digusted.
ReplyDelete@Rebekah The *sacrament* in song B is the self as the *means of grace*. Drink your cup, melt in your peace, leaning against your breath are way too vague. They mean what the listener wants them to mean.
ReplyDeleteDitto what Susan said. But, before I read B, I thought A was just campy enough to be a modern praise song.
ReplyDeleteDuh, we used Kari's love song to her BFF Jesus as the Hymn of the Day last week NOT!!!!!
ReplyDeleteGadfry, how embarrassing to call this church music... Jesus must surely be blushing that the same words a woman sings to her lover are sung to Him...
Fr. Curtis,
ReplyDeleteDidn't both these songs originate in Crave as attempts to get the people to buy the special Valentines day cappuccino specials?
I think there is a confusion between agape and eros. The people at the Kari Jobe concert look like they need a cold shower.
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