Anticipation

According to Andy at the Andrew Peterson and the Captians Courageous blog the new CD Ressurection Letters Vol. 1 will be available soon. The gang has been posting throughout the recording thoughts and videos. Actually some of the most humorous videos out there.

I first heard Andrew Peterson play at the University of Arkansas the summer of '98, opening for Bebo Norman and Caedmon's Call. The venue maybe held 150 people, but who could tell when you have front row seats. Instantly I connected with his music and lyrics. In Andrew, I dare say, that I had found someone who replaced the abrupt loss of Rich Mullins influence in my life.

And while things have changed in Andy's music career, Jamie (his wife) is not as active, and Gabe Scott has moved on as well, The Captians Courageous seem to be adequate replacements.

If you've never heard any of Andrew's work I recommend his album Love and Thunder, actually I recommend any of albums, but especially Love and Thunder and the song After The Last Tear Falls.

However recently on the blog Andrew posted the lyrics for a new song Hosanna. Check them out, I can't wait to hear them with music.

Hosanna

I am tangled up in contradiction

I am strangled by my own two hands

I am hunted by the hounds of addiction

Hosanna

I have lied to everyone who trusts me

I have tried to fall when I could stand

I have only loved the ones who love me

Hosanna

Oh, Hosanna

See the long awaited king

Come to set his people free

Oh, Hosanna

Come and tear the temple down

Raise it up on holy ground

Hosanna

I have struggled to remove this raiment

Tried to hide every shimmering strand

I contend with these ghosts and these hosts of bright angels

Hosanna

I have cursed the man that you have made me

I have nursed the beast that bays for my blood

I have run from the one who would save me

Hosanna

Oh, Hosanna

See the long awaited king

Come to set his people free

Oh, Hosanna

Come and tear the temple down

Raise it up on holy ground

Hosanna

We cry for blood

We take your life

Hosanna

We cry for blood

We take your life

It is blood and it is life that you have given

You have crushed beneath your heel the vile serpent

You have carried to the grave the black stain

You have torn apart the temple's holy curtain

You have beaten death at death's own game

Hosanna

Hail the long awaited king

Come to set his people free

(We cry) Oh, Hosanna

Come and tear this temple down

Raise it up on holy ground

Oh, Hosanna

I will lift my voice and sing

You have come and washed me clean

Hosanna