QotD: Current Mood Music
What song best describes your current mood?
Submitted by Section31.
Ok, I'm going to branch out from my recent insistence on the ample merits of Belle and Sebastian and Regina Spektor, and go with a reworking of an old song, a very, very old song. The reason it describes my current mood is because as well as liking it and hearing it on the CD, I've been playing it on the Guitar, thanks to the wonders of it being simple enough to pick up.
It's called How Marvellous, and it was written 101 years ago by Charles H. Gabriel, and the version I'm digging so much at the moment is from this year, by Chris Tomlin, who has thankfully trimmed some of the wordier verses, to make it into a workable modern worship song. It's slow, yes, but the words are really great, I think they kind of sum up the salvation experience, and as such it makes them more than just words on a song, but an expression of something amazing.
I do rather like that something can stand the test of time so well, I'm not really one for hymns, in the main part I find them wordy and not really musically something I can relate too, but then every so often you hear someone redo one and it's just great that something written so long ago can still work...
It's called How Marvellous, and it was written 101 years ago by Charles H. Gabriel, and the version I'm digging so much at the moment is from this year, by Chris Tomlin, who has thankfully trimmed some of the wordier verses, to make it into a workable modern worship song. It's slow, yes, but the words are really great, I think they kind of sum up the salvation experience, and as such it makes them more than just words on a song, but an expression of something amazing.
I do rather like that something can stand the test of time so well, I'm not really one for hymns, in the main part I find them wordy and not really musically something I can relate too, but then every so often you hear someone redo one and it's just great that something written so long ago can still work...
I stand amazed in the presence
Of Jesus the Nazarene,
And wonder how He could love me,
A sinner, condemned, unclean.How marvelous! How wonderful!
And my song shall ever be,
How marvelous! How wonderful!
Is my Savior·s love for me!He took my sins and my sorrows,
He made them His very own;
He bore the burden to Calbary,
And suffered and died alone.When with the ransomed in glory
His face I at last shall see,
'Twill be my joy through the ages
To sing of His love for me.
