I am a songwriter. I always have been, ever since I can remember. In 2008, I had an idea for a song about the life of Jesus. I wanted it to be in several parts to highlight the different parts of His life on Earth - actually, the first part would start in eternity before the world even began and overlap into His birth. The second part would be about his ministry time in the flesh. The third verse would be about what He did on the Cross. I wrote out the lyric and tried to record it.
Unfortunately, the tools I had at my disposal then weren't really up to creating the musical experience I had inside of my head. I kept the recording, but few people ever heard it because it wasn't really what I wanted it to be.
Fast forward to about three years ago. I had learned a lot about modern recording techniques by that time, and I was ready to tackle this song again. I started working on it, but I soon realized that because I wanted each verse to have a distinctly different feel, working on this song was like working on three songs at once! I worked on it for a few months, became discouraged and walked away for a bit, picked it back up again, became discouraged again... and finally, about a month ago - early July of 2014 - I finally finished it! This after an eleventh-hour complete re-arrangement of the music of the second half of the last verse! But I was super happy with the result!
Then came time to think about some kind of video release. I don't really have means to make a live-action music video, but the bar to making what's called a "lyric video" is much lower. If you haven't seen one before, a lyric video is exactly what it sounds like... it's a music video, but what you're seeing on the screen is the lyrics. Of course, it's dressed up a bit so it's not like watching the teleprompter at Karaoke night. Some lyrics videos are really cool!
And I had an idea to make mine even cooler. In this song, nearly every line is inspired by a specific quote from Scripture. My idea was to put the lyrics in the top half of the screen, and the Bible verse texts that inspired them in the bottom half of the screen. My only concern was that some of the Bible verses would go by so fast you might miss them... then I realized that people have a "pause" button and know how to use it!
Today we released the brand new lyric video of "One Day" ("The Word Go" is my artist name.) Take a look and tell me what you think!
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