Eulogy: Volume I is out everywhere now. [ Ссылка ]
I wrote this song days before my 45th birthday. My back had gone out and I was feeling the passage of time in a not altogether surrendered way. I wrote it to remind myself of what truly matters, that hopefully as the body slows down and changes it’s replaced with wisdom. Which seems to me a fair trade-off. We did a demo of this song on the first day of recording and I really didn’t like what we did. We decided we would record it last on the final day of recording so it was hovering over us as this important but unfinished track. We’d have one shot at it. That final day, Jeremiah put up mics all over the room and after we all shared about how much this experience of recording this album meant to us, I sat down and ran through the song a couple of times. At some point I asked the guys to join in with me on part of the chorus towards the end: “Oh Joshua… He made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down…” We all felt the magic in the room. Four guys celebrating a month of creative risk and bliss, singing a song of thanks.
Lyrics:
You feel like you are seventeen
Your back says you are forty-five
At least it does this morning
You’ve lost the kicks from your old tricks
In a week you will be forty-six
The birthdays come without warning
How did I get so old
I’m not really old but I’m no longer young
And now I’m playing this guitar
It feels so good to sing, my fingers on these strings
And I get stopped in airports because I played an architect
Some people think that’s who I am
It used to drive me crazy, and some days it still does
But I’m learning how not to give a damn
What do they think of me
What a waste of time I’ve wasted so much time
With all those years of walking blind
I was hypnotized, mud upon my eyes
Oh Joshua
He made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down
In old Jericho
And now I bear his name and I’m doing the same
The walls are coming down
I started writing songs when I was just north of forty
I try to write some everyday
I wish that I had started sometime in the nineties but I’m not sure I had much to say
Oh with my Leo sun, Sagittarian moon, born late afternoon
With all that fire in my chest, I have had to learn how not to get burned
And Richard says that God is love, I’m starting to believe him
I can feel it in the mountains and the water in the air
And Julian said that all is well
Teresa said “There is a hell…
It’s just that no one’s there.”
I know it’s good to be alive
It’s good to have a body
It’s good to have a mind
And I, I’m done with right and wrong
God is not a test but arms where I can rest
Oh Joshua, He made mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down
In old Jericho and now I bear his name and I’m doing the same
Oh Joshua he made mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down
In old Jericho and now I bear his name and I’m doing the same
Oh Joshua he made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down
Oh Joshua he made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down
Oh Joshua he made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down
Oh Joshua he made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down
Oh Joshua he made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down
Oh Joshua he made a mighty sound and the walls came tumbling down
In old, in old Jericho and now I bear his name and I’m doing the same
