Thank you to my daughter Caledonia for playing the harmonica on this song and to Audrianna for dancing and falling over 🤣

Psalm 13 ESV (& NIV very sparingly for lyrical flow purposes)

How long, O Lord Will you forget me forever? 
How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? 
How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? 

Consider and answer me, O Lord my God; light up my eyes, 
lest I sleep the sleep of death, 
lest my enemy they say, “I have overcome him,” 
lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken. 

But I have trusted in your steadfast love; my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. 
I will sing praise to the Lord, because he has been good to me.”

Psalm 13

I have no clue what I'm doing. I used to play in bars and as a street performer in Chicago paying bums from my tips because they claimed it was their corner. I got born again during a rough time in my life, hadn't touched my guitar in maybe a decade or so. 
Put Psalm 23 to music as I had memorized it as a kid, the next night I was alone with no tv, no nothing so I put Psalm 1 to guitar, then a few days later I decided I'd the rest of the Psalms to music. Somewhere around Psalm 3 I realized there were 150 of them and this might take longer than I thought. 

I just wanted to memorize the Psalms so I was writing a song and then listening to it until I learned the words, which I know how backwards that sounds lol
Got tired of having to click my audio file in the iPhone note recorder so I started uploading them on Soundcloud for my own sake. 
One night as I lay in bed, somewhere around psalm 6, I realized I still had my 7 notebooks jam packed with all my secular music and it was sitting there as a trophy of my past accomplishments so I woke up and first thing in the morning I burned them all. That afternoon I put Mary's song of Praise to a rap beat which was really outside of my musical style, though perfectly in line with my tastes. Since then I use whatever genre I feel best would help me complete a song. Seeing as the scope is the 150 psalms, the other 38 or so other songs in the Bible plus any other verses I want to memorize I think this is a good idea for preventing everything from sounding the same. Very glad I burnt my secular music. 
When I write a song, I play it for my girls. If they start dancing and running around in circles, then I keep it, otherwise I go a different direction. Ultimately the whole goal is for me and my daughters to eventually memorize all 150 Psalms without hurting our brains with arduous and laborious studying.

While I would PREFER keep these songs 110% word for word, that would get me in trouble with copyright infringement so for each song I sit down with 5 different translations of the Bible and rework them all together into my own  singing Buti "translation"

Psalm 13

Songs of Psalms