As usual when I started learning this song I typed up my own chord sheet so that the format would match my others sheets (I have OCD, what can I say!) I found the chords online and then cut and pasted them to a word document and formatted them to my liking. It looks beautiful and uniform now! When I was going through playing it I realized that some of the lyrics were not correct, they could not be correct, I hope to God they were incorrect! Two lines in the song had me puzzled.
1. "So heaven is real and death is alive."
Death is alive? How can death be alive...it's dead! That makes no sense!
2. "I want to see troubles living again."
What!?! Why would anyone want to see that? Put those troubles to bed and be done with them!
I immediately went to YouTube to listen to the song again. Hopefully my lip reading skills would help and I could figure out what was actually being sung. I have heard some crazy worship music lyrics but seriously, they're not even theologically correct.
After another listen I realized that the first mistaken line was actually "so heaven is real and death is a lie." Ahhhh, much better. I changed it on my sheet. But the second incorrect line was a bit more challenging. It seemed like he was singing "I want to see tribals living again." I wasn't really sure what that meant but there are tribes in the Bible so I figured it was just some biblical reference. I changed it, clicked print and went on my way.
When I got to church this afternoon we realized that the song wasn't in the slide index so I quickly typed in a new slide. Everything looked good, rehearsal was on it's way and everything was on schedule (or as close to on schedule as we ever are at BRV.) Jared was really excited about doing this new song. It's one of his favorites right now! After looking over my sheet he was able to identify the mystery lyric. It is actually supposed to say "I want to see dry bones living again." Thank God! That makes so much more sense!
The service started, people were singing, all was as it should be. We got to the last song, our new song, and we started singing. We got to the second verse and my heart sank. I never corrected the lyric on the slide. It still said tribals. Crap! It was a new song which meant that people were reading the lyrics closely. Kris was back at the sound booth. She noticed it too and immediately started laughing. Now I know that most people think church is serious and somber, but come on people. If somethings is funny, laugh at it. God wants us to have joy! I was up on stage, laughing. The looks on peoples faces...it was hysterical! Afterward several people commented on the new songs, everyone loved it, no one understood the line about tribals. I then had to admit my part in the lyric mix up. opps!
It just goes to show ya you can't believe everything you read on the Internet! If we did, tonight we would have been asking God to bring us more troubles and death, or even better...tribals!
1 comment:
hahaha! that is too funny. rich and i looked at each other and had the same question... what's up with the tribals line? i'll be sure to let him know it's dry bones, not tribals. :)
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