• 15 Feb 2010 /  Songs /  by Riley

    So I may have inadvertently recorded an acoustic EP in the studio today (yes, Trey, I did use that word here). It’s just vocals, guitar, and the occasional djembe.

    Please don’t try to download the songs, wait until I release them. That helps me and you out by you getting the best version. Anyways, enjoy! Here’s the track listing for all you organized types.

    1. Indecision

    2. Tinted Glasses

    3. Enough

    4. Open Us Up

    -Riley

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  • 11 Feb 2010 /  Songs /  by Riley

    A song I wrote today for how I’m feeling. Hate to put it before my larger post (which is in fact coming, all you hatespeakers!), but honestly felt really inspired for this one.

    These are the trying times
    The times that test the lines between obedience and faith
    And these are the dying times
    The times that show the growth and simultaneous decay

    Sometimes you never know where you’ll end up
    All you know is where to cling
    And when your time’s all spent up
    You’ve counted costs and laid down everything

    So open our eyes so that we may see
    Your power displayed in everything
    Your love constantly intercedes
    Open them up, open them
    Open our mouths so that we may speak
    Your words, they are merciful and meek
    With power and courage when we are weak
    Open them up, open them

    These are testing times
    Times that put our discipline and trust in Him to test
    But these are destined times
    Times that prove that God is God; Christ alone can conquer sinful flesh

    Sometimes you never know where you’ll end up
    All you know is where to cling
    And when you’re times all spent up
    You’ve counted costs and laid down everything

    So open our eyes so that we may see
    Your power displayed in everything
    Your love constantly intercedes
    Open them up, open them
    Open our mouths so that we may speak
    Your words, they are merciful and meek
    With power and courage when we are weak
    Open them up, open them

    These are occurring times
    Times that prove the battlefield is still a place of war
    Oh LORD, may these be stirring times
    Stir in us a passion for You and the world that shakes us to the core

    -Riley

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  • 02 Feb 2010 /  Inspirational, Songs, Video /  by Riley

    Btw… I forgot to sing the third verse… haha.

    I don’t wanna go back but at the same time I do
    I invest in lies but want to withdraw the truth
    Give me one day one ticket one way back to you
    ‘Cause it’s the last few moments that we regret
    And the second hand chases away things that we’ve said
    And you’re left with the loud sound of silence in your head

    Oh, I’m a bird that swims, I’m a fish that flies
    I’m the very thing that I despise
    A streak of grey in a greater light
    The sun is setting on the current age but I can’t seem to turn the page
    ‘Cause it’s never “I’ll move on” but instead “I don’t know” is what I say

    Can’t keep going I’m far off track
    ‘Cause I can’t bear to look forward, can’t bear to look back
    Can’t move on I’m far behind because I can’t make up my mind

    This life is a life of indecision… or isn’t it?
    I run from a place and the next day I want to revisit it
    So for a while I’ll be the one quite easy to find
    ‘Cause I’ll be waiting at the crossroads just trying to decide

    third verse I forgot:
    The door is open but I won’t go through
    I debate it in my head but I know it’s the truth
    That simply I don’t know what to do
    There’s a perfect balance in between accepting change and the old routine
    But how can I accept something when I’m too busy overthinking

    And when I try to think of a way outside
    Nothing comes to mind except for what You provide
    Because You see all of me and who I’ll be
    So help me to decide

    Listen to the original, albeit 8th grade, full band version here.

    Praise God for sanctification and maturity! Praise God that in my weakness and indecisiveness, He is still LORD! May I continually be humbled to submission to Christ and submission to the fact that I have so much more to learn and so much farther to go to be like Jesus.

    On Christ the solid rock we stand.

    -Riley

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  • 28 Jan 2010 /  Songs /  by Trey

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  • 13 Jan 2010 /  Songs /  by Riley

    Listen to the Demo here.

    Rough mix, and crappy vocals. But I’m pretty happy for it being a demoish recording.

    And yes, at “the sky grew dark” I forgot the words. :-)

    A story long told but never fleeting
    Hope for the young and the old
    The broken, the beaten, the sinful, the needy
    Love came down in the flesh that we are made
    But truly holy He remained

    Emmanuel, Holy One
    Heaven’s Son, Emmanuel

    You were the Light, You knew the Plan
    That innocent blood must be spilled for the plight of the unholy man
    The sky grew dark; the Father turned His face away
    As the Son was crushed, my debt was paid

    Emmanuel, Holy One
    Heaven’s Son, Emmanuel

    The grave couldn’t keep you and sin could not defeat you
    The grave couldn’t keep you anymore, no no

    The grave couldn’t keep you and sin could not defeat you
    The grave couldn’t keep you anymore, no no

    Emmanuel, Holy One
    Heaven’s Son, Emmanuel

    -Riley

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  • 12 Dec 2009 /  Songs /  by Trey

    For your listening pleasure.

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  • 27 Aug 2009 /  Songs /  by Trey

    The sun sets in the west leaving only behind

    White clouds tainted red in the blue evening sky

    The daytime has passed and we see it no more

    For its glory is hidden ’til the coming of morn’

    -

    So we turn to the east and we stare at the moon

    Our only guarantee that the sun’s shining through

    The long hours of night and the darkness that hides

    All the face of the earth from the sun’s glorious light

    -

    At times the clouds veil the moon’s face from our eyes

    The reflection grows pale–our hearts’ hope starts to die

    But then it breaks through the mist, though it’s clouded and dim
    Giving life to our faith that the sun’s shining still

    -

    The night draws to a close; we can see all the clues

    Of the dawn’s fast approach, finally brining our proof

    That hope won’t disappoint, that the Spirit can’t lie

    That the light in our hearts is the glory of Christ

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