As I said in yesterday’s post, music is everywhere around me. In some sense, my life has its own soundtrack, constantly playing in the background of my imagination. There’s ALWAYS a song there. Singing is everywhere in my life…and it’s everywhere around us. I shudder to think about what my life and what the world would be like without music. With that thought in mind, Robert Benson (the same Benson of the famed Brentwood-Benson music company) and composer Andrea Ramsey collaborated on a very popular and powerful setting of Benson’s text “There Has to Be A Song…” One of my choirs is singing this for our upcoming spring concert…and it’s powerful and true for what I believe about the power of song. Is there a time when music has served a powerful role in your life? Leave a comment…I’d love to hear when, where and what made that music so powerful for you.
There Has to Be A Song (Robert Benson & Andrea Ramsey)
There are too many dark nights
Too many trouble some days.
Too many wearisome miles.
There has to be, there has to be a song
There has to be a song to make you burdens bearable
There has to be a song to make our hopes believable
To transform our triumphs into praise There has to be, there has to be a song.
Somewhere, Somewhere down deep in a forgotten corner of each man’s heart
To release the chains of past defeats
There has to be, there has to be a song.
Like a cool clear drink of water
Like the gentle warmth of sunshine
Like the tender love of a child
There has to be, there has to be a song.
This sentiment reminds me of a song we sang back in high school, Without A Song. “Without a song, the day would never end….” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA5m4ruOhMg.