Month of Music Day 20 Delirious? What A Friend I've Found King of Fools What a friend I've found Closer than a brother I have felt your touch More intimate than lovers [Chorus:] Jesus, Jesus Jesus, friend forever What a hope I've found More faithful than a mother It would break my heart To ever lose each other [Chorus:] Jesus, Jesus Jesus, friend forever Jesus, Jesus Jesus, friend forever Jesus (yeah yeah), Jesus (hallelujah) Jesus, friend forever (I love to sing of you) Jesus, Jesus Jesus, friend forever (I love to sing of you) Jesus, Jesus Jesus (I've walked with you, I've talked you, I've called your name), (You're my) friend forever

My Take:

This is the simplest song I like. Most of the time, I can't stand it when it's just the same words, over and over again. This time? I can take it. In fact, it's that simplicity that makes it so profound. It's been said that the more simple something is, the more that man will try to complicate it. Like, triangles, or teen-age girls. But that isn't to say that complicated isn't needed sometimes. On those heart attack machines, we need simple directions; put here, shock that. When I'm rebuilding the SQL Database tables, and don't want to clean out old comments from old stories, but want to reassign the tables to another wild-carded database...you get the picture. There are about 10 songs that I could gladly replace this song. 'Find Me In The River,' 'I Could Sing Of Your Love Forever,' or 'Did You Feel The Mountains Tremble?' are all just as good. All as stunningly clean and pure in voice. All, also, good for listening to late at night when life just sucks. Like a sucky suck that never sucked a suck ever before as sucky. Suck suck suck. Other than more cowbell, I suggest you just take a little Delirious? and call me in the morning. You'll feel better, and I'll have a reason not to cut my phone service off. Honestly, I like listening to songs like then when my spirits are low because of how it inspires. Sometimes we all just need to be inspired, and this fits the bill. Helps get over the suck.

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author: John Stansbury
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