he once again changed musical styles, this time moving into folk-rock. In 1966 he had success with a version of Tim Hardin’s song, “If I Were a Carpenter.” He also wrote a song for Hardin —“A Simple Song of Freedom”– which became a hit for Hardin. And...
This passage is often called the song of the Suffering Servant. The one who is called "my servant" in this chapter is understood by Christians to be Jesus, who suffered for us on the cross. In this song, who and what is it that causes the servant to suffer? Isaiah says these things:...
“One” first appeared on King’s 1977 album, Simple Things, and last month she shared a new version of the song, which kept the original’s references to injustice while adding an optimistic final verse with the lyric, “At the end of the day, we’ll be able to say love won.”On...
Some authors write their books in restaurants and coffee shops. My first full time job was at a newspaper where 40 of us clacked away on manual typewriters in one big room—no cubicles, no partitions, conversations hollered over the din, most of my colleagues smoking, teletype machines clatt...
The first one makes me think of the woman I am with, her long curly hair falls down like that. The second one make me grin. “She took the myrtle branch and sang in turn another song of pleasure, in her left hand still the flower of the rose tree, and let loose ...
It is a lot better than ‘Stalking Time for the Moon Boys’ in which two TV blokes (David Baddiel and Tim Hincks) talk to various other blokes and each other about a song & dance man, David Bowie. But it’s still not great. Entertaining enough if you’re keen on your Dylan. ...
Have you ever heard a song lyric or watched an acting performance that recharged your creative battery? Many of the great authors of our time wereinspired by musicor onscreen moments. You can find a realistic style of dialogue for your characters by listening to the way that actors recite th...
When you write a song, most of the words you use are in black and white, and then, from time to time, you use one that’s in color. These words in color are a part of ourselves, because we give them a meaning. If you like, we give them a third dimension. —Jacques Brel ...
Half a dozen middle-schoolers begin singing the theme song. Some of them dance. Something I’ve learned about me. Living in my mind does not necessarily make me a more patient person. And I’m not alone. Contemporary Christianity has lots of adults like me, but it also has lots and ...
I even wrote on the wall in the kitchen- “Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?” These lines are from a great song by the band Chicago and it got me thinking. Is there any one thing that two humans can agree upon? Is the time on the clock the one...