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Timeless playlist (updated 12-22-21):

Fix You - Coldplay

The Cave - Mumford and Sons

Iris - Goo Goo Dolls

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I toss and turn at four in the morning, petrified of where our future is going, ‘cause you’re the kind of girl that deserves the world; I’m just the kind of guy that promises the world. So I fix a drink nice and strong in the kitchen, something quick that’ll cure my conscience. Creep back to bed and I kiss your forehead. Maybe everything is fine and it’s all in my head.

A little Irish in your blood, a little Polish in your name, a little Boston in your attitude, just the way you were raised.

Your Wild Years

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Playlist 8-15-20

Something Has to Change - The Japanese House (Chewing Cotton Wool)

Anna - The Menzingers (Hello Exile)

Righteous - Juice WRLD (Legends Never Die)

In Color - Jamey Johnson (That Lonesome Song)

my tears ricochet - Taylor Swift (folklore)

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“In The Blood”

How much of my mother has my mother left in me? How much of my love will be insane to some degree? And what about this feeling that I’m never good enough? Will it wash out in the water, or is it always in the blood?

How much of my father am I destined to become? Will I dim the lights inside me just to satisfy someone? Will I let this woman kill me, or do away with jealous love? Will it wash out in the water, or is it always in the blood?

How much like my brother does my brother want to be? Does a broken home become another broken family? Or will we be there for each other, like nobody ever could? Will it wash out in the water, or is it always in the blood?

I can feel the love I want; I can feel the love I need, but it’s never going to come the way I am. Could I change it if I wanted, can I rise above the flood? Will it wash out in the water, or is it always in the blood?

JCM

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Playlist

The Resistance - Skillet

“They can take my heart, they can take my breath when they pry it from my cold, dead chest.”

Your Wild Years - The Menzingers

“The souvenirs of happiness in the moment, your wild years that you often mention, the sands of time in an hourglass, that you’re always begging for back”

Feathered Indians - Tyler Childers

“I said many folks have warned me, there’s been several people try, but up till now there ain’t been nothin that I couldn’t leave behind.”

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Luke 1:38

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Brothers and sisters: For freedom Christ set us free; so stand firm and do not submit again to the yoke of slavery. For you were called for freedom, brothers and sisters. But do not use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh; rather, serve one another through love. For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement, namely, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. But if you go on biting and devouring one another, beard that you are not consumed by one another.

I say, then: live by the Spirit and you will certainly not gratify the desire of the flesh. For the flesh has desires against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you may not do what you want. But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

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And to another he said, “Follow me.” But he replied, “Lord, let me go first and bury my father.” But he answered him, “Let the dead bury their dead. But you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.” And another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say farewell to my family at home.” To him Jesus said, “No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fit for the kingdom of God.”

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Romans 8: 8-17

Brothers and sisters: Those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh; on the contrary, you are in the spirit, if only the Spirit of God dwells in you. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is alive because of righteousness. If the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also, through his Spirit that dwells in you. Consequently, brothers and sisters, we are not debtors to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a Spirit of adoption, through whom we cry, “Abba, Father!” The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if only we suffer with him so that we may also be glorified with him.

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There’s a darkness that is brighter than our light. There’s a danger, love, to holding on so tight. I’m finally seeing, I’ve been seeing this all wrong. I’m finally seeing, now that everything belongs. That everything belongs. Everything belongs. There’s a shadow that believes in fits and starts. And it’s the paradox that feeds the famished heart. I’m finally seeing, how the spaces make the song. I’m finally seeing, now that everything belongs. Now that everything belongs. Everything belongs. There’s a web and every thread ties you and me. And we are here and now, the future’s yet to be. I’m finally seeing, that our weakness makes us strong. And everything belongs. Everything belongs. Everything belongs.

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Gloria by the Midnight

https://themidnight.bandcamp.com/album/days-of-thunder

I’ve been asleep in the driver seat. I’ve been lost in my head for weeks. Trying to find what it is I need. Too goddamn tired to sleep. And then there are other times. I’m so aware that I lose my mind. Never feel like I get enough. So high that I can’t stand up.

There are those who will never learn. Who build a fire and can’t stay warm. The only secret to make it through, is to take what’s in front of you. I feel death and it thrills me. And all the lights in front of me. Drive till the coast is clear. Faster till it disappears. 

Oh, gloria. I feel so much better. I feel so much better today. And it’s not the drugs. And it’s not the weather. I just feel so much better today. 

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666

I’m still standing in, still standing in the need of prayer, the need of prayer

No I don’t know the path or what kind of pith I’ve amassed. Long lines of questions. Lessons, lessons. Lessons, lessons. 

What do you lose to concede? And yes it’s hard to believe when ‘em sold from your sleeve. Just come off of your kneel, please please please.

I can admit to conceal. No, that’s not how that’s supposed to feel. Oh no, it’s not for broader appeal. Fuck the fashion of it, dear. 

I’ve laughed about it. I’ve laughed about it. I’ve laughed about it.

JV

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Current playlist:

Bury It - Chvrches

When We Were Young - Adele

Throne - Bring Me the Horizon

Only Love - Mumford and Sons

Superficial Love - Ruth B

Cooking Wine - Alkaline Trio

Great Big Storm - Nate Ruess

It's Your Day - Yiruma

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2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2

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Jesus

I know you’re coming in the night like a thief, but I’ve had some time oh Lord, to hone my lying technique. I know you think that I’m someone you can trust, but I’m scared I’ll get scared and I swear I’ll try to nail you back up. So do you think that we could work out a sign, so I’ll know it’s you and that it’s over so I won't even try.

(Jesse Lacey)

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Waking the Fallen

Wake the ones and rise tonight. Fallen souls, we shine so bright.

Rise now and ever, leave your memory. Rise now and ever, leave your memory.

No one can touch us.

A7X

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D or G

Out there at the edge of town, where the wind whips up whispering my name, I walk the streets of this withered and wicked land. My shadow darkens the door of a place I ain’t been before, but I shamble off in shame, throwing rocks at the rooks with these brittle and broken hands.

I feel something’s coming for me. Is this death or glory that hangs like lightning in the air? It’s been years of barren skies, but I see dark horizons draped like night beyond this glare. 

I swear I feel the rain in my bones and I imagine thunder shattering stones, playing crack the sky. I was scared I might be lost in the floor but now I see more than that; I’m just longing for love and this land’s so dry.

In the dark of the night I woke with a start and stared across the room, but all I saw was this dream burned across my brain. From here to the ocean there was a field of roses; I watched them burst and bloom, I saw them wither and fade but revive when they felt the rain start to fall.

I feel something’s coming for me. Is this death or glory that hangs like lightning in the air? It’s been years of barren skies, but I see dark horizons draped like night beyond this glare.

DK

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Rejoice

We are children of the promise, the beloved of the Lord. Won with everlasting kindness, bought with sacrificial blood. Bringing reconciliation, to a world that longs to know, the affections of a Father, who will never let them go.

All our sickness, all our sorrows, Jesus carried up the hill. He has walked this path before us, He is walking with us still. Turning tragedy to triumph, turning agony to praise. There is blessing in the battle, so take heart and stand amazed.

Rejoice! When you cry to Him He hears your voice, He will wipe away your tears. Rejoice! In the midst of suffering, He will help you sing.

Rejoice! Come and lift your hands and raise your voice. He is worthy of our praise. Rejoice! Sing of mercies of your King and with trembling, rejoice.

DK