lyrics girl

"There are two kinds of people in the world. There are lyric people and music people. The lyrics people tend to be analytical ... all about the meaning of the song. They're the ones you see with the CD insert out like five minutes after buying it, pouring over the lyrics, interpreting the hell out of everything. Then there's the music people, who could care less for the lyrics as long as its just got like a good beat and you could dance to it. Sometimes it might be easier to be a music girl and not a lyric girl. But since I'm not, let me just say this. Sometimes things find you when you need them to find you, I believe that. And for me its usually song lyrics." [One Tree Hill]

i don't watch that show but i love the quote, because song lyrics always get me. sometimes they get me in a bad way, and certain songs literally make me feel sick. if music is playing with lyrics that don't settle in my spirit, i get headaches. other times lyrics frustrate me by showing the rapid declination of intelligence within america. (i.e. "i'm tryin to find the words to describe this girl without bein disrespectful" ... you're already being disrespectful as you describe her body in every other line, moron. sadly that's a minor example of many pop songs i can't tolerate.)

i love when song lyrics get me in a good way, and i think they can do that for everyone. music connects. God uses it to speak to us and wants us to speak that powerful language back to Him. someone at church last week said that even people who say they don't like to sing out loud are probably believing a lie, because everyone sings in the shower or in their car. i have definitely been caught ... on more than one occasion ... belting it out (and maybe dancing) in my car when i had no idea anyone i knew even drove by.

heavenly music is something i'm really excited for. what kind of sound will be pleasing for the massively different musical tastes of people on earth? people who love country, punk, r&b, hymns and mozart will all be singing together and that just blows my mind. the child prodigy akiane, who painted masterpieces of her visions from God before her atheist parents had ever even mentioned His name, had dreams where she got to listen to the music of heaven. her parents couldn't understand why she would cry whenever they played even the gentlest music. she told them it hurt her ears - God's music was so much more beautiful.

here's a spontaneous song that greatly encouraged me on sunday ...
You are faithful to my heart
You are faithful to the end
i could never find another more faithful than You
who else would go with me into the darkness
and never leave my side
You never let go.