Soundtrack

Mrs. Polkadot tagged me for a song, so I give her two that I can never quite get out of my head.

If you click on the links, I recommend just listening and not watching the videos (even Steve Taylor himself would probably recommend this for his song).

Blessed Be Your Name
by Matt Redman
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Blessed Be Your Name In the land that is plentiful
Where Your streams of abundance flow. Blessed be Your name

Blessed Be Your name When I'm found in the desert place
Though I walk through the wilderness Blessed Be Your name


Every blessing You pour out I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord Blessed be Your glorious name


Blessed be Your name When the sun's shining down on me
When the world's 'all as it should be' Blessed be Your name

Blessed be Your name On the road marked with suffering
Though there's pain in the offering Blessed be Your name


Every blessing You pour out I'll turn back to praise
When the darkness closes in, Lord Still I will say

Blessed be the name of the Lord Blessed be Your name
Blessed be the name of the Lord Blessed be Your glorious name

You give and take away, You give and take away
My heart will choose to say Lord, blessed be Your name


Jesus Is For Losers
Steve Taylor

If I was driven, Driven ahead by some noble ideal
Who took the wheel?
If I was given, Given a glimpse of some glorious road
When was it sold?

So caught up in the chase, I keep forgetting my place

Just as I am. I am stiff-necked and proud
Jesus is for losers. Why do I still play to the crowd?
Just as I am. Pass the compass, please
Jesus is for losers. I'm off about a hundred degrees

If I was groping, Groping around for some ladder to fame
I am ashamed
If I was hoping, Hoping respect would make a sturdy footstool
I am a fool

Bone-weary every climb. Blindsided every time

Just as I am. I am needy and dry
Jesus is for losers. The self-made need not apply
Just as I am. In a desert crawl
Lord, I'm so thirsty. Take me to the waterfall

And if you're certain, Certain your life is some cosmic mistake
Why do you shake?
And if you're certain, Certain that faith is some know-nothing mask
Why do you still ask?

They don't grade here on the curve
We both know what we deserve

Just as you are. Just a wretch like me
Jesus is for losers. Grace from the blood of a tree

Just as we are. At a total loss
Jesus is for losers, Broken at the foot of the cross