We’re still digging into Tonic — and there is so much gold left to be found.. You know how it is… you’ve got to get to know someone before you marry them — believe you me 💯
So I’ve got two more sweet ones for you today…
🎶 “Take Me As I Am” Year released: 2o02 Album.. Head on Straight (Tonic’s third studio album) Album release date.. September 24.. 2o02
🎶 “Knock Down Walls” Year released.. 1999 Album.. Sugar (Tonic’s second studio album) Album release date.. November 9.. 1999
And just a cool little fact about me… Pretty much every song I’ve ever shared with yall on this blog — I also play and sing myself… me and my guitar 🎸
Hope you enjoy… I truly appreciate you…
This song has the F word in it.. just once.. at the 1:37 mark.. it’s not bad.. it’s quick.. 👇
Sidewalk Prophets 🎶 You Love Me Anyway 🎶 Keep Making Me…
Some bands don’t start on stages… they start in small rooms… borrowed amps… quiet prayers… and long drives…
Sidewalk Prophets began in 2003 on a college campus in Indiana… just a few friends writing songs about faith doubt and grace while playing worship nights and whatever doors opened… They toured in vans… played churches and coffee shops… and learned how to carry songs into real lives before anyone was listening…
That slow road mattered… because when their music finally reached the wider world… it already knew how to sit with people…
Two songs from that journey still hit me deep… and honestly… I think these are two of the greatest Christian songs ever… I know… that’s saying a lot… hey… it’s just my opinion… 😁
🎶 You Love Me Anyway (These Simple Truths 2009 — single 2011)
🎶 Keep Making Me (Live Like That 2012)
I hope yall enjoy… thank you for your time… have a blessed Sunday…
2 Corinthians 4:8–9 🔥 We are hard pressed on every side… but not crushed… perplexed… but not in despair… persecuted… but not abandoned… struck down… but not destroyed…
In 1975.. Hank Williams Jr.. fell more than five hundred feet down a mountain in Montana — an accident that nearly took his life and forever changed his voice.. his sound.. and his direction…
Out of that fall came a new Hank Jr — no longer living in anyone’s shadow… finally becoming his own man…
Years later.. the scars turned into songs… here’s two of them…
🎵 “I’m for Love” — 1985 🎵 “Queen of My Heart” — 1987
He didn’t just survive the fall — he came back sounding like himself for the first time…
I hope yall enjoy… thank you for stopping by… have a great weekend…
I was in a church filled with people — maybe a thousand of them… It felt like home… familiar… safe… But something in the air felt strange… like warmth covering a quiet wrong…
I was sitting with a group of guys — my friends — waiting for the service to start… The room was loud with low voices and shifting bodies… noise that feels alive before something important begins…
Then.. a young guy stepped to the pulpit… mid-twenties… unpolished… unguarded… real…
He started to confess…
Not in a dramatic way — not for attention just a man tired of carrying his weight alone… He confessed his sins… his failures… his sexual mistakes… with girls in the church…
The room changed…
Whispers started… Then snickers… Then laughter…
People leaned into each other… smiling behind their hands… Judging… Feasting on the fall of someone brave enough to bleed in public…
I felt my chest tighten…
Not at him — at them…
I felt angry… Ashamed… Disgusted… I was pissed…
This was supposed to be a place of mercy… A greenhouse… where things nurture… instead.. it felt like a courtroom with no grace…
I looked around at the faces of people… I didn’t recognize the love I thought lived here…
I wanted out…
So I stood up…
I walked past the rows… Past the whispers… Past the laughter… Past the pulpit… that was no longer an altar… but a guillotine… and the applause for the fallen… was the new amen…
I pushed open the doors… as I stepped outside… I felt cleansed… baptized… free as a wet bird drenched in truth…
then I woke up…
it was just a dream…
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Who knows who is both your best friend and brother… When everyone’s deserted you… Who’d shoot first and ask questions later… If anybody’s messed with you…
Pretty soon we’ll all be tumblin’ like a barrel… Thrown from the top of the waterfall… I’m drownin’ in piranhas in the river… Man… what a drag!
I was talkin’ to my teacher… Said I didn’t have a clue… I think my principles are reachin’…
Heart of Loia `'.,°~ 