Current Tunage: Celldweller – Birthright (Demo)
Excellence at it’s finest. Can’t wait to hear the sophomore record in full.

The bird that plucked the Olive Leaf
(has) Been circlin’ like a record ’round the spindle of my mind
Where the needle’s worn the grooves too deep,
And scratched the wax that’s blistered from the heat besides
From any movement in the room -
If my cat walked by, the arm skipped
But to my surprise,
My interrupting cat improved
The sound already so severely compromised…

The needle’s worn the grooves too deep. (x4)

I’m a donkey’s jaw on a desert dune
Beside the bush that Moses saw that burned and yet was not consumed!
She’s the silver coin I lost! I’m the sheep who slipped away!
We pray with fingers crossed, but You listen patiently anyway.

I wrote a little song for you
With a melody I’d borrowed, put to words that didn’t rhyme
To repeat what you already knew,
As the stones thrown at your window tapped in syncopation.

You kept a distance, out of fear you’d break
But what good’s a single wind-chime hanging quiet all alone?
The music our collisions make
Is the sound that turns “the road that leads us back home” into “home.”

The music our collisions make. (x4)

I had a rusty spade, but I’m not the fighting sort!
If I was Samson I’d have found that harlot’s blade and cut my own hair short!
Then, in a market dimly lit, I’d come casually to pay:
“You see, my coins are counterfeit. Would you accept them anyway?”

So spare me your goodbyes, your waving-handkerchief goodbyes!
Given my tendency to err so on the sentimental side,
I will spare you my goodbyes:

The truth belongs to God! (The mistakes were mine.)
-mewithoutYou “In A Market Dimly Lit”

And now that I’ve quoted the song I’ve had in my head all day, check out this video of a humanist Jew debating some other dude that Christian rock doesn’t suck. Be warned: It’s a rather extensive debate, very good, and features musical interludes provided by the guy arguing in favour which includes the likes of Larry Norman, mewithoutYou, and Over the Rhine… as well as others.

Long story short: It’s stellar. Check it out.