I wrote this song about a year and a half ago and it’s been a slow evolution from where it began. Lots of rewriting in every aspect of the song. I feel satisfied with where it’s settled. I’ve been working on a studio demo of it for a long time, so many false starts due to the rewriting. This past Sunday we recorded the set live through our modest FireStudio Project setup mostly for our own internal band uses. You have to listen to yourself to see where you stink.
The mix is pretty rough, lots of stuff we need equipment wise to get a decent live recording setup, but for a rough live demo, it’ll do. The song is about our lives as worship and love for Christ. I was tired of singing about it, praying about certain things and just ready to live it. Lyrics below and you can grab the How I Live loop here.
Song credits(Our Rising Sound band):
Kyle Campos: synth/loop work, guitars, vocals
Josh Dailey: bass
Jonathan Utter: drums
Kendra Rohl: vocals
Verse:
I love you Lord
Cause you changed my world
Your son crucified
Be restored to your bride
You’ve come to this dark
And hardened heart
You spoke into night
And your spirit has brought me to life
Pre-Chorus:
And I want to show you more, of my love
And I want to show you more
Chorus:
How I live I love you Lord
You have changed, changed my world
How I live I love you Lord
Though this world might have stole you restore my soul, whole
Bridge:
I can’t believe what you’ve done, done for me
That I could receive all of your love
And your life has set me free
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It sounds good, very exciting what God is doing at Life Connection Church.
I wish I didn’t have to use my imagination to see your faces! Audio today, video tomorrow…
Great stuff!
Good recording for not much equipment. I must say I love this song it really grabs our congregation in away that other songs cant because you wrote it. It is a great song!
hey man,
the quality is actually really good for a board mix. i’m curious because i’d like to record our sets too how did you run everything so that you could capture the audio for recording and have everything go to the house for live sound all at the same time? i’ve got a Firepod (earlier version of the FireStudio). Thanks.
Kyle,
you are truely a gift from God! And he has blessed you with many talents!
You are truely and inspiration!
I love this song!
Kyle,
Sounds great, man. Question for you, on that line “be restored to your bride” … because of the way the rest of the lyrics are written, I interpret that as a line that is being sung or spoken to God (or Christ). If that’s the case, I’m not sure “restored” is the right choice … although I totally get what you’re saying there. When I see “restored”, I think of the person being restored as being the person who “broke”. In this case, it was be US being restored to HIM, and not HIM being restored to US.
I only mention it (and in public form, hoping it will generate more comments for you!) as a thought … it’s a good song, and if there is any chance that something that could be “shaky” on a theological stance, you’d want it firmed up, IMHO, to make it even greater.
OK, so I realize I just offered a totally unsolicited opinion, but what do you think?
KYLE I JUST LOVED YOUR SONG SO SO PROUD OF YOU GOD HAS BLESSED YOU IN SO MANY WAYS LOVE YA AUNT R
Fred,
Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate your well thought out critique and I value your opinion greatly. My intent and doctrinal reasoning for that line is as follows:
The previous line talks about Jesus death, which is the means for any relationship we have with Jesus. But that relationship still imperfect, still fallen. The restoration of Jesus(bridegroom) to the church(bride) is the perfection of our relationship. I certainly do not intend to imply Jesus as the cause of the imperfect relationship(we certainly are to blame for that), but rather in that state He is the initiator and only one who can restore that relationship(bride to bridegroom) by His return.
So I do agree with you, we will be restored to Him, we are the broken ones, but the means of that restoration is in God’s hands, paved by grace and in his perfect timing. So the line is meant as an impatient request, Jesus be restored to your bride. Come rescue us. I could have said, “please be restored to your bride” but that doesn’t work rhythmically
I hope it doesn’t cause confusion. And I completely agree with the importance of doctrinal integrity in worship. Sometimes words fail to paint a totally clear context in worship and perhaps this is the case for this verse. If that be the case I pray God’s grace cover it and give me wisdom on how to communicate it better.
Thanks again Fred.
Josh,
I’ll be doing a post on our setup. I sent you an email with the short version. Stay tuned for the long version.
Mandy, Rachel, Mark, Mom, Aaron,
Thanks so much for your encouragement. I really appreciate it.
I didn’t know that this was your song – my knowledge of Christian music is still so limited… but I love when we sing this song!!