Music is incredibly important to my life. I don't usually talk about how important music is to my life, but I have playlists for pretty much everything. I love songs with meaningful lyrics. I like upbeat songs. Sad songs. Love songs. Songs about betrayal. Losing someone you love. Basically, anything. Music without words. Classical music. Celtic music has a certain pull on my heart. Music has been around forever. When I was growing up, there was a song that we used to sing in church sometimes, called "When Long before Time (The Singer and the Song)". When I was older, and finally got around to reading "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C.S. Lewis, there was a section, in "The Magician's Nephew", when Aslan literally sang Narnia into existence, and when I was reading that, I immediately thought of "When Long before Time". I also love playing the piano, it is always calming to me. Music is relevant in all situations, and one of my favorite quotes, which, I don't know who to attribute it to, but it goes, "Music is life, that's why our hearts have beats."
When Long before Time (The Singer and the Song)
1. When long before time and the worlds were begun,
when there was no earth and no sky and no sun,
and all was deep silence and night reigned supreme,
and even our Maker had only a dream...
2. ...the silence was broken when God sang the Song,
and light pierced the darkness and rhythm began,
and with its first birthcries creation was born,
and creaturely voices sang praise to the morn.
3. The sounds of the creatures were one with their Lord's,
their harmonies sweet and befitting the Word;
the Singer was pleased as the earth sang the song;
the choir of the creatures reechoed it long.
4. Though, down through the ages, the Song disappeared,
its harmonies broken and almost unheard,
the Singer comes to us to sing it again:
our God is with us in the world now as then.
5. The Light has returned as it came once before;
the Song of the Lord is our own song once more;
so let us all sing with one heart and one voice
the song of the Singer in whom we rejoice.
6. To you, God the Singer, our voices we raise;
to you, Song Incarnate, we give all our praise;
to you, Holy Spirit, our life and our breath,
be glory forever, through life and through death.
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