Veckan som gått har ändå gett mig en idé rent textmässigt. Jag är ett utmärkt exempel på en curlande far. Vår dotter är fyra och jag börjar så smått inse att hon blivit enormt duktig på att sätta sin pappa i arbete. När jag precis tar mig an uppgiften att klippa ut Barbiedockor så har hon redan gett mig nästa uppgift, bygg en koja av soffan. Men innan jag hinner lägga taket så ska vi sätta på en film eller nej förresten, vi ska ut och cykla. Det finns något väldigt komiskt i farten och i antalet saker JAG leker på en timme. Ikväll blir det ett första försök till en text om vem som egentligen bestämmer hemma.
Lyssna pa Steven Curtis Chapman. Han har skrivit en hel del latar om sina döttrar eller sin hustru osv...
SvaraRaderaHälsningar fran en "langt-borta-släkting" till Abbepappan fran Tyskland! Gillar er musik :-)
Åh tack för tipset. Det ska jag verkligen kolla upp. Kul att du gillar musiken! :)
SvaraRaderaSCC "Cinderella" - song about his daughter:
SvaraRaderahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B1XM9jWiLI
(accoustic version) eller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUk5SZ18WhY&feature=related (CD-version including lyrics) eller
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhDDzbA8unA&feature=related (the story behind the song)
SCC "How do I love her" - song about his wife:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8pjIGn21jM&feature=related
SCC "We will dance - song for his wife:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jqkui2vIKo&feature=related
SCC "proud" - song about the childrens wedding:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMi4b0abidI
Oh sa har han gjortt flera videoblogs. Nr. 14 handlar om att diska med sin dotter. Där sjunger han spontant med sin gitarr en "diswashing-blues". Jättekul tycker jag. Maste du kolla. Länken funkar inte just nu...
“Heaven is a sweet, maple syrup kiss and a thousand other little things I miss with her gone”
SvaraRadera…from “Heaven is the Face”
It’s the little moments in life that are often the most defining---a sticky kiss from a child, a shared prayer, an embrace from an old friend. For more than two decades, Steven Curtis Chapman has celebrated life’s most precious moments in song. The joys and challenges of daily existence reverberate throughout Steven’s music and his songs have become the soundtrack of life for believers everywhere. For Steven, life and music have always been inextricably intertwined. So in the aftermath of unspeakable tragedy—the death of his five-year-old daughter Maria—Steven did what all songwriters do, he poured the torrent of emotion into his music.
The result is “Beauty Will Rise,” a stunning body of work inspired by a circumstance no father should ever have to endure. Steven is unflinchingly honest in his exploration of grief and loss. He asks the questions we all ask when horrible things happen to the innocent, yet throughout the album hope shimmers, faith becomes more real and even more precious, and the peace that surpasses understanding leaps from the page and becomes palpable.
“It is weird for me to even call this a record because it is just my personal psalms from this journey that we have been on,” says Steven. “After we lost Maria, I did not know if I would ever write anymore songs or if I would ever sing again. The last thing I wanted to do is turn any of this into a song. Then you realize ‘God, this is what has happened to us and now what would You have me to do with it?’ Slowly songs began to just come out as ways for me to try to process what I was thinking and feeling and what my family and I were walking through.”
Knowing that things would never be the same, Steven and his family began navigating what they’ve come to refer to as the “new normal.” In doing so, Steven began writing once again. “The first song was ‘Just Have To Wait’ and I think the next one was ‘Questions.’ They were all just songs that were literally praying and wrestling with God and asking, ‘What am I going to do with this? What do I really believe now? How are my family and I going to journey through this and walk through the rest of life with these holes in our hearts? What is that going to look like?’” Steven says quietly. “Music has just always been one of the ways that I have processed whatever is going on. These songs were just my wrestling through it and being as honest as I could possibly be about that process. That is where these songs came from.”??