All of Us - Kyle Matthews
I was away at Pine Lake Music's MUSICATLANTA conference most of last week. On Saturday I had to go get things set up for the 8:30 service (which I usually do earlier in the week, but I was away, so ... ). While I was at the church I checked my mailbox and found that my friend Kyle Matthews (you'll find a link to his website to the right) had sent me his latest CD. If you're not familiar Kyle, he has a unique, storytelling kind of style to his songs. You can hear Ken Medema's influence in his stuff, but he's not a mimic ... he does his own thing with it. I've not listened through the whole thing yet, but the 4th cut -- "All of Us" -- is choice. Here are the words:
She's got a toddler and a baby, but she's just a child herself;
She's desperate, but she's too afraid to ask for help.
As she wanders through our yard sale we want to offer food,
But we don't want to embarrass her, we don't want to intrude ...
Thinkin' "How can we be what she needs?"
She needs friends to be like family in the best and worst of times,
A job, some education, enough cash to get by,
Women who will listen, men that she can trust.
There's still a chance she'll make it, but she's gonna need
All of us.
He longs to be the savior of people such as these.
He wants to wipe out hunger, house the homeless, cure disease.
He rides in on his white horse, he's noble and unbowed,
'til his money, optimism, and his patience have run out.
He thinks, "I should have known I can't do this on my own.
She needs friends to be like family in the best and worst of times,
A job, some education, enough cash to get by,
Women who will listen, men that she can trust.
There's still a chance she'll make it, but she's gonna need
All of us.
She stands with all the others in a sea of caps and gowns;
Cheers rise from the balcony when her name is called out.
She says, "I'd like to give you all a gift that I have found:
A church to be there for you when others let you down,
'Cause a day's gonna come when you will be the one ...
Who needs friends to be like family in the best and worst of times,
To celebrate your victories, cry with you when you cry,
A sea of faithful people so that when the trouble comes
They surround you like a wave that gently lifts you up, and that takes
All of us.
Kyle's songs tend to take my soul to healthier places. Most of his writing is about how our faith is supposed to look in the day to day. So here's my recommendation: go to Kyle's site and order the CD. Order some of his other stuff as well. I also highly recommend the booklet "The Silly War".
That's enough to think about for now.
She's got a toddler and a baby, but she's just a child herself;
She's desperate, but she's too afraid to ask for help.
As she wanders through our yard sale we want to offer food,
But we don't want to embarrass her, we don't want to intrude ...
Thinkin' "How can we be what she needs?"
She needs friends to be like family in the best and worst of times,
A job, some education, enough cash to get by,
Women who will listen, men that she can trust.
There's still a chance she'll make it, but she's gonna need
All of us.
He longs to be the savior of people such as these.
He wants to wipe out hunger, house the homeless, cure disease.
He rides in on his white horse, he's noble and unbowed,
'til his money, optimism, and his patience have run out.
He thinks, "I should have known I can't do this on my own.
She needs friends to be like family in the best and worst of times,
A job, some education, enough cash to get by,
Women who will listen, men that she can trust.
There's still a chance she'll make it, but she's gonna need
All of us.
She stands with all the others in a sea of caps and gowns;
Cheers rise from the balcony when her name is called out.
She says, "I'd like to give you all a gift that I have found:
A church to be there for you when others let you down,
'Cause a day's gonna come when you will be the one ...
Who needs friends to be like family in the best and worst of times,
To celebrate your victories, cry with you when you cry,
A sea of faithful people so that when the trouble comes
They surround you like a wave that gently lifts you up, and that takes
All of us.
Kyle's songs tend to take my soul to healthier places. Most of his writing is about how our faith is supposed to look in the day to day. So here's my recommendation: go to Kyle's site and order the CD. Order some of his other stuff as well. I also highly recommend the booklet "The Silly War".
That's enough to think about for now.
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