Ben is lost in tiredness..can sm1 plz pull him up?
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008,
Story behind the song 'Lifetone'
Why I'm posting on how/why I wrote this song is so that if we sing it we can understand what the song means and we can sing the song with the same emotion the writer had while writing the song.
Today as I was thinking. When I wrote this song what the song meant here and there. And God reminded me...
Well, I wanted to write a song called Lifetone and with that in mind God gave me this idea of amplifiers, knobs and guitar stuff. And so I started.
As I was writing this song, I pictured a suitcase(the one I always carry around to keep my effect pedals). And in the suitcase were the pedals which represents us! The first scene/idea God put into my head was a hand putting the pedal into the suitcase, and the pedal affects the sound of the guitar. Pedals are not meant to be put in the suitcase for nothing! This is when the verse: "Brought into this world for a reason, Not for each day to pass by, Not to be put in a suitcase to rust, We’re here, to make a difference."
God is like the person using the pedals and He has the authority to set it to how He wants it to sound like! Thats when the first part of the chorus: "Use our lives, Tune it how You want it to be." comes.
"Make a tone out of us, That is pleasing to your eyes" a tone that is pleasing to His eyes?! It seems like typo but there is a reason behind why I wrote the second part of the chorus this way. In the first part of the chorus when I said "use our lives, tune it how You want it to be", I didn't mean tune our voice so that it may sounds different. I meant make us how He(God) wants us to be, letting us go through different events/ups and downs in life (Tuning process). Like a pedal being set/tuned. After all that setting/tuning, it gives a tone/sound and thats when the "Make a tone out of us" part comes in. Asking God to make something He wants out of us after all the ups and downs.
To sumarize it all, I'm asking God to shape us and use us, so we can live in a way pleasing to His eyes.
BOO! (: hahahah i cant sleep now, so yea, here's wishing ryan a smooth journey to malaysia haha! and yes, flooded with homework! this song, my cell leader sang it during cell a few weeks ago,
You are forever in my life, You see me through the seasons, You cover me with Your hands, and lead me in Your righteousness, and i, look to You, and i, wait on You. i'll sing to You Lord a hymn of love, for Your faithfulness to me, i'm carried in everlasting arms, You never let me go, through it all.
yeap, this song, i forgot the title >.< its a really nice song, lets all remember that, in times when we're low and down, discouraged, rejected, empty or sad.. God's with us through it all (:
