Hoping for a studio miracle whereby this no-so-stupid-song becomes a good-song (the tune is already good).
Things I've learnt from this particular endeavour:
- 5 syllable words suck (unless you're Chris Tomlin)
- 4 syllable words aren't much better
- Big theological terms make for bad songs
- Nothing rhymes with 'unlimited'. Nothing that you'd want to sing, anyway.
- No song should ever use the word 'unlimited'. Even if it doesn't need to rhyme with anything.
- I need to know what I'm talking about and feel something for it before trying to write it into a song
- Opening up a doctrine text and reading a couple of lines is bad writing prep
- Some lyrics should never be sent to your tune-man
- tune-men who can normally be counted on to reject terrible lyrics occasionally let something slip through
- tune-men expect a re-write of dreadful lyrics
- re-writing is so much harder than writing from scratch and no fun at all
- God is kind and can make the okay come out of the terrible.
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