Thief In The Night
Dec.21, 1994
Once I got up in the middle of the night (or wee hours of the morning), compelled to write down this song...
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Birds Fly South
Nov.23-Dec.9, 1994Folk-Song that came to me before some gig out in some fields under an eerie autumn sky around the Stuttgart area.
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You Shed Light Into My Heart (Thanks To You )
Nov.6-13, 1994Song I wrote for the couple who had won me to the Lord about 18 years earlier...
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Gently & Quietly I’ll Blow Your Mind
Oct.29, 1994Although I may not have been in the brightest phase of my life during the time I wrote this song, I always figured it was the Lord speaking in it, since He definitely manages to blow our minds with His whispers, more than all the world's rah-rah ever could.
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Love, Come Into My Life
Oct.29, 1994
I think I've had the knack for oriental slants in some of my songs for a while, & this was one of them...
If you think about it, the sort of music Jesus listened to during His time on earth was probably a lot more oriental than what we're used to...
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Silver & Steel
Oct.14, '94Folkie love tune, not for anyone special that I know of.
This series of songs was recorded at Ted's place for a tape (later CD) we called "Gently & Quietly I'll Blow Your Mind" a sort of "unplugged" album.
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Shadows
October 5, 1994
Folky tune about the Tribulation & 2nd Coming/Rapture, which I still play relatively often, since I like its style and it's easy on the voice, being so low-pitched & smooth.
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The Year Love Disappeared
March-August 1994David Brandt Berg once wrote that the last thing they're trying to kill people's faith in is love. Jesus also said that in the last days the love of many would grow cold...
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Life's Not a Freeway
August 19, 1994There's no speed limit on German highways, & people drive accordingly. It can really be murderously dangerous sometimes. This song is for all the "me-first" types on German highways.
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Passion
July '94There isn't much of a story to tell behind this song, except that it was basically addressing the colder than average, reserved German mentality in general... no offense intended.
It's a song that every now and then I find preaching at myself...
Love-Starved Children
March 10, 1994This song was inspired by one of the kids in our neighborhood who struck me as pretty forsaken, since her parents apparently never had time to her, so she often would tug along with us when we'd go for a walk through the woods or whatever...
Coincidentally, this song brought me to the States in 2000, via the North America Country Music Association Intl., since the song had won some kind of award the year beforehand, and I was invited to attend the following year, but that is yet another story...
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Kisses of the Past
March 4-5, 1994
Having to deal with nostalgia over the "good old days" a bit, I came up with this song, reminded of the counsel from a good friend who compared the past to "water under the bridge..."
Angels
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Song which originally functioned as title song for a technically flawed tape I recorded at the bass player's home in Bavaria who was playing with Cesar & GoWest at that time, and was later re-recorded for Rhythm of Life...
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Life's Roller Coaster Ride
Sept.13-14, 1993MP3 Lyrics
The song that kind of wraps up my life in a 2 minute version of the story...
Closer Than a Friend
Sept.3, '93MP3
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Folk-Rock ballad I apparently wrote 5 years before I got around to recording it...
Life's Like a River
Dec.'92-April 20, '93One of my more inspired attempts at a Country-Folk song.
Around this time I was bidding farewell to busking and playing more and more regular gigs...
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Where Grey Skies Won't Go
November 24, 1992One day I got a phone call from Cesar Galehr in Austria, telling me he'd heard my tape "One Moment in Heaven" and that he needed a rhythm guitarist for his Country band.
Our first gig in Switzerland was a disaster, but I wound up playing with "Cesar & Go West" for 15 years.
On that first gig I happened to meet 2 girls from Stuttgart, gave them a tape and consequently met Ted Richley, another Christian Country musician, who not only recorded my 2 subsequent albums, but also got me into the Stuttgart Country scene and later on donated a P.A. to our cause (parts of which I'm still using.)
This song was one of my early attempts to write a Country song, although my love for Country didn't turn out to be a lasting affair, largely due to the development of the Country scene...
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Concrete Hearts
Sept.7-22, 1992Inspired by a fairly cold conversation with an English lady I met one night busking in a pub in Constance...
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The Busker's Song
July '91 - August 19, '92MP3
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In those days I still supported our entire family of 6 by busking in restaurants & clubs, primarily in Switzerland.
It wasn't always easy, as this song, sort of similarly to my sentiments in "My Melody" expresses...
Soul Rain
July 9-10, 1992One scene I particularly like in the movie "The Holiday" is the one in which Jude Law's character confesses to his date that he's a "weeper."
"A movie... a book... anything... I weep."
Well, I can sort of relate to that, and that's what this song is about.
It's sort of a taboo in our society for fellas to "weep," but it's not the only thing that's screwed up about our society...
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Free
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Came up with this riff one day & the melody floated into my head, accompanied by memories of the past... Retrospectively, I can see now that this song may have come as a reminder of something precious that it sometimes pays to fight for in order to keep it...
Welcome to Babylon
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Back in those days, there used to be a graffiti on a bridge when you came into Zürich from the Highway that said, "Welcome to Babylon!" & I always thought that would make a good title for a song.
So one day I just sat down & did it...
