New Song — “You’ve Walked Among us Still”
Song number three is done. This has taken the longest to write thus far, which was a bit frustrating. I had a hard time getting words that I really liked for the chorus.
This song is radically different compared to the two I’ve produced so far. It is a praise and worship song, which has been my default genre for quite some time.
If you’re new to the blog, I guess this would now be the point in which to say that I’ve been a Christian for quite some time. It’s a very defining feature in my life ever since I was a kid, and I don’t think that it will be going away any time soon.
This song came about, lyrically at least, as kind of a supplement on a Bible study I’m involved with at College. We’ve been going through the first few chapters of Genesis since last semester, looking at it as a fundamental building block for what a Christian’s world view would be. And it boils down to this: even though humanity has royally screwed up and done everything possible to alienate God, he’s gone out of our way to reconcile us to him. That fact should reflect on everything we say and do. Now obviously, we’re still fallen creatures living in a fallen world, so we’re going to screw up. But Christ doesn’t see our mistakes as a brick wall between us and him. He has gone the extra mile to make a way for us.
Technically, this song really excites me because it is the first I wrote while using two capos simultaneously on my guitar. I put my standard capo on the 2nd fret and then put my brand new cut capo on the 4th fret. The end result looked like this:
I’m really excited about the versatility of this technique, and I’m thinking of picking a couple more capos just to see how much I can get out of — what’s that? you’re eyes are glazing over? Oh, okay, then. How about the song?
