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Lent Playlist [day thirty-two/40]

Atlantic City :: Bruce Springsteen

Everything dies baby that is a fact...maybe everything that dies someday come back. Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty and meet me tonight in Atlantic City.

Lent Playlist [day thirty-one/40] worldly wednesday

End of the World as We Know it (I feel fine) :: REM

We almost used this in worship yesterday with Mark 13 and the close of the age

But really, today's song is:

Mad World :: Gary Jules

 

 

Lent Playlist [day thirty/40]

Incomplete and Insecure :: Avett Brothers

will I ever know silence without mental violence, will raining at night go away
it's up to you my father... 

Lent Playlist [fifth sunday in lent]

See that my grave is kept clean :: Blind Lemon Jefferson 

The people say: "We wish to see Jesus" John 12

It's like Jesus responds: see that my grave is kept clean

Lent Playlist [day twenty-nine/40]

John Wayne Gacy, Jr. :: Sufjan Stevens 

Romans 3

in my best behavior, I am really just like him. look beneath the floorboards for the secrets I have hid.

I wrote about Sufjan Steven's "John Wayne Gacy Jr." back at the seminary. 

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Lent Playlist [day twenty-eight/40]

Winter Winds :: Mumford

we’ll be washed and buried one day my dear and the time we were given will be left for the world...

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Lent Playlist [day twenty-seven/40]

Real Hero :: College featuring Electric Youth

[Jesus] You have proved to be a real human being and a real hero

Ryan Gosling played the unnamed driver in the remake of the film Drive. His character is a sort of Christ-figure, giving up his life for the sake of his neighbor and her son.  

Lent Playlist [day twenty-six/40]

Morning Yearning :: Ben Harper

Like a summer rose, I'm a victim of the fall//but I'm soon returning//your love's the warmest place the sun ever shines//my moring yearning

Lent Playlist [day twenty-five] worldly wednesdays

World Spins Madly On :: The Weepies

Woke up, wish that I was dead, with an aching in my head, I lay motionless in bed//I thought of you and where you'd gone, and the world spins madly on

Everything that I said I'd do, like make the world brand new and take the time for you//I just got lost and slept right through the dawn, and the world spins madly on

an even better version, here.

Lent Playlist [day twenty-four/40]

Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise :: Avett Brothers

There's a darkness upon me that's covered in light//in the fine print they'll tell you what's wrong and what's right//and it flies by day and it flies by night and I'm frightened by those who don't see it