So week 2 arrived for writing! This time we had every band member present! Which really made Nothing He Can't Do come to completion. Walking in to this night Kevin brought a hook for a chorus for us to build upon. The hook totally has a late 90's early 2000's summertime rock feel! We weren't quite sure how it would work building a worship song around it, but we proceeded and we're so glad we did. Again we started with our full band jamming on the material and building a feel for the song. The verses took a really cool jazz direction, do yourself a favor and pay attention to the bass guitar line when you hear it. We also made some room for Jeremy to take a guitar solo later in the song. Then we headed to chairs with acoustics again to work on our vocals and lyrics.
All we had lyric wise for the song was the phrase "Breaking Free, letting go." So we again looked at the seven letters in revelation and zero'd in on the letter we would write from. We chose the first letter, to the church at Ephesus. You can check it out, Revelation 2:1-7. In this letter Jesus praises Ephesus for the works in the faith, but calls them out for forgetting about having a relationship with Him. "But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first." So we wanted to write from a perspective of repentance.
Part of the chorus is:
Breaking free, letting go
Of everything that takes my heart away
Then we began working on our verse. With the jazz feel musically, we went a direction in kind of camp fire sing along melody. (We don't know what that means either, but it sounds good) We will share the lyrics of the verse with you and let the song do the rest when you get it!
After all the running, after all that I've been through
Chasing all the things that, never could compare to You
Now my eyes are opened, I can see the work You do
Even at my furthest, Lord you draw me back to You
Now I offer all I have, never turning back!
Breaking Free! Letting Go!....ect.
Can't wait for you to hear it!
Wolverton
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