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Just so you know this is me venting (with the encouragement of others) so the feelings I express now might not be as strong tomorrow.

I’m prepared to be cast outside the city gates for this one. Here we go:
Come on guys. You can do better than this. I know I’m not one to talk because none of the lyrics I write will ever be released. But what’s the deal with the repetitive lyrics of our “worship” music. Holy holy holy cow! I know that sometimes artist are looking for that filler so they can reach the universal 3 minute 25 second mark, but geez come on.

I can’t blame just the artist either. It’s the leaders who drag it on too. How many times must we sing the chorus before you can fade the music out?

Let’s take a look at some examples:

1. Trading My Sorrows -

And we say yes Lord yes Lord yes yes Lord Yes Lord yes Lord yes yes Lord Yes Lord yes Lord yes yes Lord Amen

It’s not unusual for the worship leader to tack on a couple more choruses on this one.

2. Blessed Be Your Name -

Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord
Blessed be Your glorious name

In the original lyrics, "Blessed be your Name" is sung 20 times. And again it's
completely normal to sing the chorus 1 or 2 more times.

3. You Are My King -

Amazing love, how can it be?
that you, my king. would die for me
Amazing love, i know its true
its my joy to honor  you 
Amazing love how can it be? 
that my king would die for me
Amazing love i know its true
its my joy to honor you 
in all i do 
i honor you

This one is the mother of all repetitive choruses!!

Conclusion:

1. You’re correct. I can’t do any better if I were the worship leader.

2. You're also correct if you say that my lyrics suck, but at least I don't use filler.

3. No, I'm not going to try, I'm just an ideas man.

4. I write this only to inspire, because for me and at least 3 others the songs aren’t “fun” to sing anymore.

5. I prefer a more intimate atmosphere. Just one guy with a guitar is enough for me.

6. For the worship leaders out there: If you now hate me, at least tell me face to face (or email to email) that way at least I’ll know.

I applogize for all the formatting issues. The blogger editor isn’t very friendly.

I prefer to wait until I have something to talk about before posting. But that doesn’t always work out. But still, I would like to post more often than this guy (sorry BV). And in order to do that, sometimes the post have to be less exciting. This is one of those post.

Life is going. Which is good. I’d rather it being going than anything else. I do find myself spending too much time with VM’s and Halo Trial Edition. I was talking with Amy this past weekend. And I was telling her that I don’t know why I spend hours upon hours building Linux VM’s, but I do. It bugs me too. I wish I knew why I do that. Am I doing it so I don’t get “out of the loop” with the latest technology? Or is it because I’m a geek and maybe this will tie into my future somehow? Probably both…I’m a geek, I’ve finally confirmed this as of last weekend when I spent the majority of the nice 70 degree weekend inside sitting in front of my computer.

I have a confession to make. Ever since it came out I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. So this past weekend I saw Brokeback Mountain. For those of you who don’t know (yeah right) Brokeback Mountain is about a guy and a girl working on a ranch. They fall madly in love with each other and have wonderful kids and live happily ever after. No wait…that’s not what it’s about…reverse that…it’s about 2 GUYS falling in love. Oh yes that’s it, 2 guys. I’ll save you my opinions. But I thought I’d see for myself what all the fuss was about since most of the people complaining didn’t even bother seeing it. They prefer to label things before they get to know them. Don’t we all.

Mac Users: By now I’m sure you’ve all heard about Apple’s Boot Camp. I have one thing to say: It’s about time. I’ll admit Apple almost always wins the style/trendy award for their computer cases. But finally, I can match all that beauty on the outside with beauty on the inside (Windows XP). You might say, “Well yeah, but you’ll ruin your notebook with security flaws if you boot XP on a Mac.” Keep in mind the only reason why Windows is so “filled” with security flaws is because it’s on 95% of the computers out there. So people pick on it. You’ll see, as more and more people start shelling out the big bucks for their new Apple, hackers will start targeting them. OS X hacked under 30 minutes.

B…O…R…ing.

Sorry.