Don and Lori Chaffer's ministry through music continues to impact my life in a big way. I just got two of their worship albums and am being opened up to a sort of worship that is so much more genuine/authentic/real/awesome than anything i've ever heard/played/sang. it has helped so much as i have been praying for guidance in learning more about worship.
this song isn't off of a worship album. it's off of one of don's albums entitled "What You Don't Know." it's not even a worship song per se (making this post rather random). But it has been running in and out of my mind all break. I remember a couple months ago sitting outside with a couple guys enjoying our time together. I remember asking them what some of the lyrics in this song meant. I didn't understand it then. Now the lyrics are hitting hard.
"What You Don't Know"
Sometime while I was sleeping
we crossed into Virginia
I woke up and stepped out of the van
'Ma’am, where's the cigarettes?'
She said, 'Over there with a southern drawl
I said, 'do they all talk like you ‘round here?'
Sometimes what you don’t know can hurt you
Sometimes you can’t see right from wrong
You’re too blind to see
And too far down the road
and now she’s gone, gone, gone, gone, gone
Crystalline and hazy
The memory is crazy
You never know the way that it might go
Like laughin’ under summer trees
Or stayin’ close when the branches freeze
I guess this is all I was ever supposed to know
Somehow I’m gonna get up from this car wreck
Somehow I’ll get up and walk away
After two months in intensive care
And half a year in God knows where
I am gonna pick up and move on
Last night while I was dreaming
My daddy came and spoke to me
He said, son ain’t no man ever loved too good this way
All brain and no feelin’
gets you screwed into the ceiling
Don’t try so hard to figure out what to say
‘Cause sometimes what you don’t know, it won’t hurt you
And it ain’t so hard to see what’s right from wrong
Just open up your eyes
And take off that disguise
Boy, the way you dramatize
won’t make a heart that’s wise
You’re a man when you live inside your own skin
You’re a man when you live inside your own skin
-Don Chaffer
have a great night guys
-dave
5 comments:
hey susie homemaker...remember that time we sat outside your apartment playing guitar and whatnot....and we talked about songs...i dont remember talking about this one, so it must not have been this time...unless i just forgot this song...we talked about other songs though...but i cant remember which ones...
ok i just want to say that Gretchen's post really kind of rounds out the first part of my post that dealt with worship.
i hope the first part of my post didn't sound like authentic worship can only be found when playing waterdeep music. isn't the case as i'm sure you guys know. gretchen does a good job of writing that down. hooray gretchen!
http://www.momentsofclaritybygretchen.blogspot.com/
yeah the cd's to which i was referring were enter the worship circle and you are so good to me
p.s. they are awesome cd's
Dave, I miss you like you wouldn't believe.
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