PTP Ep.8 | Mosaic Prayer Series #3: Sham Gebremariam on Lectio Divina

Little Miss Danielle (Victor Dey Junior)

"My Secret Heart" from Songs from Bright Avenue (1991)

MY SECRET HEART
W/M: Bob Bennett
© 1991 Bright Avenue Songs (ASCAP)

In my secret heart where I really live
I am longing for peace and the will to forgive
In my secret heart where I run to hide
Nobody knows me but you
There's a dark cloud hanging
Full of pain
And I'm caught out in the rain

In my secret heart a stillness gives way
To the sound of a longing for a better day
Behind the easy laughter is a man who is afraid
That he will repeat every mistake that he has made
The lightning flash of anger
Like a drug against the pain
And my secret heart was drowning in the rain

In my secret heart where I really live
I am longing for peace and the will to forgive
In my secret heart where I run to hide
Nobody knows me but you
Nobody can know me but you
Nobody knows me in my secret heart

My Secret Heart

From "Songs from Bright Avenue" (1991)

SINGING FOR MY LIFE
W/M: Bob Bennett
© 1991 Bright Avenue Songs (ASCAP)

I don't think I'm supposed to tell you
Just how much this means to me
And how I can't uncross the lines
Between this thing I do and the man I'm supposed to be
There's a question in the back of my mind
Who knows what is really true?
I sing these songs and you listen to me
But who's doing the favor for who?

  And I am singing for my life
  I am singing, singing
  Singing for my life now

It seems almost all of my life
I've held onto this piece of wood
And sometimes I am tempted to think
It's the only time that I can do any good
Sometimes when I stand up to play
I am a lonely and desperate man
These songs are the only prayers I can pray
And I sing them just as hard as I can

   And in the middle of the congregation
   Voices are raised and hearts are pure
   I carry a deep, dark secret
   Even now I am so unsure
   Then I pray, "Oh Lord, come and tear me apart
   May the words in my mouth fall to my heart
   And remind me why I live and breathe
   Is it not to know You?
   Is it not to believe?”

  Then I am singing for my life
  I am singing, singing
  Singing for my life now
  Singing for my life
  Now

Bob Bennett - Singing for My Life

Sound clips to illustrate different gain and EQ settings. 260K Variable MP3's, no EQ or dynamics processing. All taken from SL900 DI output. TB00 was high level/ground lift/Pre-EQ. The rest were all Post-EQ.

Homebuilt neck-through 5-string bass, 35" scale, maple/bubinga neck and body, ebony fretboard with jumbo frets, EMG 40P5 pickups at neck and bridge, V/V, no onboard EQ. Broken in D'Addario nickel wounds 45-125.

Clips are fingerstyle. First phrase is neck pickup solo'd, second is bridge pickup full, neck pickup about 25%. Each phrase was faded out for brevity. The input for every clip is absolutely identical, as the phrases were pre-recorded, and played back into the Streamliner using Audacity and my Macbook's sound card. Sorry about the finger/fret noise and phrasing...

TB00 bass Genz DI OEM tubes

TB02 nr flat 220 Post OEM tubes 7.9 9 9

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composed by Andy Irvine
featuring Gumbi Ortiz -percussion 

TB02 nr flat 220 Post OEM tubes 7.9 9 9

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