2nd Chapter http://julieandjesse.com/2ndchapter a project featuring acoustic originals recorded in a raw non-professional style resulting in a simple artistic expression of my thoughts on life. Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:02:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 en say what you mean http://julieandjesse.com/2ndchapter/2008/06/24/say-what-you-mean/ http://julieandjesse.com/2ndchapter/2008/06/24/say-what-you-mean/#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:56:43 +0000 Jesse http://julieandjesse.com/2ndchapter/2008/06/24/say-what-you-mean/ i found this track in my public folder. created december 22nd by phil cain. it’s a song i had written and given to him to create some reason sequence sounds for. we never really got around to finishing it (which happens often with songs i write… i am detecting a pattern). i remember going through a time where i was very frustrated with communication, (and still am!) found a love for the written word again, and started being a whole lot more direct in what i ask for or commit to. it is a maturing of the soul when we realize what responsibility and integrity really mean. mean… see i find myself using that word so much more these days. what do we mean?

please… i don’t have time
i don’t have to rhyme this line

please… say what you mean
don’t speak in between the lines

i’ve thought this through
but between me and you
i decided not to

what do we mean by what we say?

–(other lyrics written, but not included in the track)–
please… let’s speak what’s true
we’ll be one of the few
authentic, honest, but new

please your core values
like a wedding vow you
non-negotiable you

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]]> http://julieandjesse.com/2ndchapter/2008/06/24/say-what-you-mean/feed/ the good old days http://julieandjesse.com/2ndchapter/2008/06/19/the-good-old-days/ http://julieandjesse.com/2ndchapter/2008/06/19/the-good-old-days/#comments Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:15:36 +0000 Jesse http://julieandjesse.com/2ndchapter/2008/06/19/the-good-old-days/ i reverted back to my hillbilly roots for this one. living in a smaller city has made me aware of how easy it is to get stuck in the past. it is amazing how great the past is. i mean to say “is” and not was of course, since i know i naturally tend to make the past look better than it probably really was. but maybe it was better, who knows. i added the line “nostalgia can’t be the name of this song” half joking. i didn’t really know how to spell it, and it would obviously be a terrible name for a song, but also because i refer to my life as a song often in my journals. so the idea is that the past cannot be the title of my life. wanting to go back to better times cannot define or identify me in the present.

the lyrics:

i love you more than the good ‘ol days
you’re better than what’s been and all that will be

i love you more than my memories
i often can forget and hardly ever see

nostalgia only lasts so long
nostalgia can’t be the name of this song.

i love you more than the things i know
i’m probably maybe sure of all that i’ve been told

i love you more than history
agenda drives the facts and they run right over me

i love you more when you have your way
you ruin my routine and all i planned to say

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]]> http://julieandjesse.com/2ndchapter/2008/06/19/the-good-old-days/feed/ in the grey skies http://julieandjesse.com/2ndchapter/2008/03/17/in-the-grey-skies/ http://julieandjesse.com/2ndchapter/2008/03/17/in-the-grey-skies/#comments Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:17:23 +0000 Jesse http://julieandjesse.com/2ndchapter/2008/03/17/in-the-grey-skies/ the news of something new that might be happening in our lives inspired this song. along with some gloomy weather. although i don’t reference anything directly spiritual in the lyrics, this song developed over a couple of days out of my soul’s longing for a deeper relationship with God, and a clearer understanding of my own journey.

here are the lyrics, intermixed with my explanation of what they might mean…

“in the grey skies, in the sunshine, partly cloudy with a chance of pain… something constant, something stable”

this is about my Creator. i regularly have the potential to fail greatly, but my Maker is strong and perfect.

“in seatle, arizona, needing something to dissolve the pain”

i do fail, and i do get hurt.
at first it seems like a mirror of the last verse, but really it’s not. this is a reference to coffee, and my using it as an escape from regular life.

“my endeavor is seeming shorter”

endeavor is my way of saying journey, and eternity ( sounds like “and ever” ) at the same time. i am getting closer to dieing so i have less life to waste, and every new day i live to make sense of my physical life alone, my view of afterlife shrinks.

“in the future, even further what will transfer all my honor?”

i want to live for something, and someone bigger than me. at the end of my life i want to be able to say my life was a tribute to the One who brought me into existence for eternal purposes.

“search for meaning, finding simple”

i want to matter, and i am learning that life is much more simple than i had originally anticipated. i feel like i have over compensated on cheap knowledge.

“every season marked by something new”

this repeated line is about how every new season God brings us into is marked by newness. i am learning to expect new things, and big changes i attempt to listen and follow what seems good and right.

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