So, on a recent #ShareTheMusic I did the #MountainGoats . If you haven't already, you should listen to the Mountain Goats. I love this band.
I'm listening to another one from The Life of The World to Come.
The whole album drips with empathy. Each song has a title like the one I posted- it has to do with a single line in the bible or Torah and the song is related.
However, it isn't worship music or Christian rock or the like. It is a different kind of personal.
The name of the album itself is from the Nicene Creed.
The song I'm listening to on repeat right now is quite sad.
Matthew 25:21
It's about the loss of a loved one. It's emotive and powerful and lyrically amazing.
I really, really recommend this album.
But the Lyrics. Goodness the Lyrics.
I can't help but thinking about the people in my life who've passed on.
Or, perhaps more depressingly, the people who are likely to pass on.
"You can't brace yourself when the time comes. You just have to roll with the blast."
"And then came to your bedside. And as it turns out, I'm not ready. And as though you were speaking through a thick haze, you said hello to me. We all stood there around you, happy to hear you speak. The last of something bright burning, still burning, beyond the cancer and the chemotherapy."
"And you were a presence full of light upon this Earth. And I am a witness to your life and to it's worth. It's three days later when I get the call and there's nobody around to break my fall."