Live recording from around 2008
Drums: Samuel Brandt
Guitars: Nasim Kholti, Matthias Kammermeyer
Keys: Alex Pfeiffer
Bass+Vocals: Ed Einsiedler

Random Recordings

The Counting Song

This track marks my return to songwriting after a break of over a year. I wanted to go for a kind of iHOP feel: intimate and intense, but also congregational. My fingers were hurting by the end of it...that's what comes from not playing enough ;-/

F#m  F#m/D  E   C#m
Light divine, floods into this night of mine
A change, a shift as the grey begins to lift
This is where it all falls into place                   C#
Struggling to even stand where my Lord awaits

F#m  D   C
Reaching for the King, passionately, desperately
With aching in my bones and deep within a burning fire

I study hands that bore the bloody nails
Touch the face that tells a million tales
Gaze into the eyes so clear and warm
Of God who breathed life to my soul, so masterfully formed

Reaching for the King, passionately, desperately
With aching in my bones and deep within a burning fire
This is my King, compassionately, extravagantly
Reaching out to me, your life inside a burning fire

Life is just not life without you
You make it all real, make it all true
Now you’re pulling me into you
Where it all makes sense

Holy fire, 
Cleanse this tongue
To speak of all wonders this King of mine has done

Reaching

1. Are you really sure you want this?  
Think I know where it is leading
Talk as if you haven’t noticed
But can’t you see my heart is bleeding?

Prechorus:
Don’t get me wrong
I’m trying to be strong, but….
I’m aching for you, don’t you understand? 
I’m still in love with you, can’t you comprehend?

Chorus:
Is it all in vain? Is it worth the pain? 
Cryin’s all I’m doin’, it’s gonna be my ruin
Is it all in vain? Is it worth the pain? 
I hope I can love, I hope I can love again

2. I’m not really sure I want this
Think I know where it is leading
Fighting hard, but all I’ve noticed 
Reality is frustration-feeding

Bridge:
I still remember how you feel
The first touch of your hand		
Those innocent eyes that took me by surprise
Must it be a memory? 
Must this be just a memory?


Really Sure

1. Waiting here outside your window
Wanting just to be your Romeo
But I’m all alone here in the cold

Hoping for the chance to hold you tight
Longing just to kiss you goodnight
But you’re out of sight, turned out the light

Chorus A:
So I’ll sing to the sky my lonely lullaby

2. Pondering for hours the question why 
Feelings in me grow while yours die
I’m left outside with my lullaby

Chorus B:
So I’ll sing to the sky my lonely lullaby
Now it’s time to cry, this is my lonely lullaby

Bridge:
Emotions rear their ugly head; 
Cutting words I’m glad I said
I’m a cloud ready to burst
A man dying of thirst
Chest so tight that I can’t breathe
But though I want to I can’t leave


Lonely Lullaby

1. Coursing through history
The power and the mystery
Of God, pure and holy
Almighty, then lowly here 
Help us to stand on your word 
And then press on
But keep fresh the story 
Of wonder and glory here 

Chorus:
Even though we’ve seen you
Even though we’ve known you 
Your manna is just enough for the day 
Give us revelation, passion restoration 
Father, you’re more than enough
Need you more than the stuff that decays
	
2. Constant companion
You never abandon 
Your children, your treasure
Your pride and your pleasure here
Help us to listen
To shine and to glisten
As kingdom and chaos collide 
And dismay us here


Manna

1. I know where I am heading
I live my life out loud 
Eat and drink and breathe the revolution
I’m following the crowd
God you bring things into perspective
The life we’re made for is an elective

PreChorus
There’s tangible change when I’m in range of your cascading pleasure
Abundance of peace as you release the oil of joy

Chorus A
At last something worth living for
At last something worth dying for
There’s more to this than we can see
The power of heaven lives in me
Loneliness and boredom remedy
I’m not the loser I once used to be

2. Choose and do what I do
Be you and just like me
Tolerate extreme assimilation
So we free can be

Chorus B
At last something worth living for
At last something worth dying for
I’m no pawn of society
Christ is my identity
Loneliness and boredom remedy
I’m not the loser I once used to be

This is real life  


Real Life

Be still, be still, find rest my soul, in God alone


1. On my bed I think of you
Giggle as I recall times
We faced enemies together
Daddy laughed, they ran away
Here I’ll stay, here I’ll stay

2. Onto you my spirit clings
In the shadow of your wings
Since that night we sang together
Life has never been the same
I’ll remain, I’ll remain

My source will not run dry when I fall on you
I find a place to hide when I call on you


Be Still

1. Wonderful, durable mercy of God
Tangible, visible mercy of God
You're totally dependable 
And utterly unshakeable

2. Curious, infectious mercy of God
Perilous, scandalous mercy of God
So crucially unearnable 
And blatantly illogical

Open this old jar of clay
See all I've failed to say
Jesus, I know I don't need 
A flashy car, a pot of gold, a mansion by the sea
I'm happy where you've put me
I'm happy where you've put me

3. Unending, unswerving mercy of God
Big-spending, unnerving mercy of God
No eloquence or poetry is ever satisfactory


Mercy

It fell away, it fell away
The sin that clothed me, it fell away
Washed it away, washed it away
The blood of Jesus, washed it away

Where can I go, where can I flee
From your omnipresence? 
How you know me
When I awake, I’m still with you
And the night is bright as glorious day

Ch.1.Undone, in pieces at your feet
Undone, unravelled, incomplete
Undone, but in the perfect place
To dive into the sea of grace, undone

Br. Thankfulness to God I must confess
You search me and you know me
Faithfulness of God who’s swift to bless
You search me and you know me

Ch.2.Undone, but coming back again
Undone, but stronger through the pain
Undone, is how it’s meant to be
As looking back I see
Your hand was guiding me
Jesus, is my gain, if ever I remain undone


Edreborn