I took different lines from songs by The Wonder Years and Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties that have to struggling with God and tried to compile them into a storyline showing one person's internal struggles with faith.

Being someone who has thought the same things at times, I wanted to take how faith is typically presented in their songs in more of a hopeless way and make things more hopeful.

I honestly love their music and don't want to disrespect the intended meaning of their lyrics or offend anyone by distorting them, but rather just kind of make it more personal in the way I have gone through similar times of doubt, anger, depression, defiance, anxiety, etc. and ended up in a place of realizing that I do ultimately believe in God, and accepting that I personally can't make it through life all on my own.

Shalom on viola
Steffen Pollock on percussion

"I need saving." TWY/AWRT Spoken Word Mashup.

Words: Allison Gurney
Vocals/Guitar: Rachel Baldwin (facebook.com/rachelxbaldwin)
Vocals/Keyboard: Rachel Diomede
Djembe: Katrina Wagan

Chorus from Dodie Clark's "She." (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpg3gtwepSs)

Audio Recorded by Dane VandenBerg at Scot Radio Studio
Mixed by Kyle Seidenberg (kseidenberg@gmail.com)
Mastered by Liam Geary at Moondog Recordings (facebook.com/moondogrecordings)

She ft. Rachel Baldwin & Rachel Diomede

Gordon College's Scot Radio show, Trash Rock Radio. Streams live Wednesdays @ 7-8pm EST on http://scotrad.io/.

This show features powerful songs of lament and frustration from artists living in the land of mass incarceration and home of us who profit from the poverty of the least of God's children. In this promised land, this country which built its foundation on top of the rape and murder of human bodies, where it is permissible to kill in the name of a false god and destroy our only earth in exchange for the temporary. Songs cursing the American "God."

God isn't an American. Jesus wasn't white.

So, then, what are we going to do as believers and lovers of God, mercy, wisdom, compassion, justice, and righteousness when we hear the cries of the people who recognize this system which idolizes this American pseudo-God as a weapon of oppression, greed, corruption, manipulation, gluttony, apathy, deception, murder, and destruction?

Let's talk about it.

TRACKLIST: 
1. The 4th Branch - Immortal Technique
(http://genius.com/Immortal-technique-the-4th-branch-lyrics/)
2. Stained Glass Ceilings - The Wonder Years
(http://genius.com/The-wonder-years-stained-glass-ceilings-lyrics/)
3. When The President Talks to God - Bright Eyes
(http://genius.com/Bright-eyes-when-the-president-talks-to-god-lyrics/)
4. The New World Order - Defiance, Ohio
(http://genius.com/Defiance-ohio-the-new-world-order-lyrics)
5. Baby, I'm an Anarchist! - Against Me!
(http://genius.com/Against-me-baby-im-an-anarchist-lyrics)
6. White America - Eminem
(http://genius.com/Eminem-white-america-lyrics)
7. City on the Hill - Desaparecidos
(http://genius.com/Desaparecidos-city-on-the-hill-lyrics)
8. Cardinals - The Wonder Years
(http://genius.com/The-wonder-years-cardinals-lyrics)
9. Black Boys on Mopeds (cover) - Chevelle
(http://genius.com/Chevelle-black-boys-on-mopeds-lyrics)
10. Feels Blind - Bikini Kill
(http://genius.com/Bikini-kill-feels-blind-lyrics)
11. Hero - Frank Ocean/Mick Jones/Paul Simonon/Diplo
(http://genius.com/Frank-ocean-hero-lyrics)
12. Prayer in C - Lilly Wood and The Prick
(http://genius.com/Lilly-wood-and-the-prick-prayer-in-c-lyrics)

Spotify Playlist of Songs (with additional songs there just wasn't enough time to feature):
https://open.spotify.com/user/1230706596/playlist/3un82ws9u3s6wknI6V09Zy

allison gurney.

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