The History of Rock - Part 2 — Alan Ives

I know one, maybe two other churches that have a basket and I know one or two churches that have a string group and that's about it. They go around the U .S. and they're happy if they have a pianist. Anyway, we're going to sing a song called As a Volunteer.

Saved by grace and then we volunteer to serve the Lord. Who would want to do less? This is an old hymn, entitled As a Volunteer. And in Jeremiah chapter 10, do I need to put the, where did I put it, there it is.

I never know if it's more thrilling to listen to a brass band play or to play in it. But, let's see, what do I need to do to get it to be on? I don't know when it's, is it on now? All right. And we've got a little too much volume, I think it's going to boom.

Isaiah, I'm still in Isaiah. And just a phrase you've probably heard before in Jeremiah 10 and just the phrase. It says, Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the heathen. Learn not the way of the heathen.

I need to, well, let's pray. Dear Father, help us to learn of Thee and help us to not pick up the ways of this world. Help us to honor Thee as we ought to. Bless this session together now in Jesus' precious name.

Amen. Maybe you're aware of these things and maybe not. And we'll see where we shall go with this. I'll probably want this back later. But for now, and I want to talk about the rock revolution, but I want just to line up some things for you.

Turn with me to Genesis. I guess we're going a little different direction than I thought. With Genesis, we're going to back up from Jeremiah there to Genesis. And we read here, chapter 9 and verse 18.

And the sons of Noah that went forth of the ark were Shem and Ham and Japheth. And Ham is the father of Canaan. These are the three sons of Noah. And of them was the whole earth overspread. Now, I'm not going to take time to discuss the three sons of Noah for right now.

But only for us to see. There's three of them. There's Shem and there's Ham and there's Japheth. When Noah landed his boat on Mount Ararat, Shem went east. Shem is the oriental or the easterner. Ham went south, from which we get the African tribes.

And we simply call them African. Japheth went west. And he is the European, father of the European races. And his music is called Western. These are the three races that we find. They have been termed various ways.

Did this drop lower? I don't know. I think maybe the back leg fell down. I'm not just sure. Alright. Orientals, depending what text you read, are called Mongoloids. African, Negroids. And the white man, Caucasoids.

Am I going to spell it right? Caucasian. Now, just to keep this moving quickly, and it won't if we stop. In the east, the easterner developed their religions. Many gods, Shintoism, Brahmanism, all of that business, all of those isms.

But their cultures, religion, is mysticism. Not Christianity. China, Japan, all of those in the east. Ham had a religion that there's no other way to describe except voodoo. That's the witch doctors and all the rest of that.

With the drums, which are used in their culture. But not a Christian culture. Japheth, the white man who went west, developed a Christian culture. It was the white man who found the Bible and put it in their own language and printed it on Gutenberg's printing press.

Now, I tell you that much because this deals with the choices that we make in America. Before the rock revolution, and that's where I'm headed with that, but our American society was built on Christian principles.

Built on Bible principles. The music that we brought to America from Europe was music that was satisfactory and socially acceptable to a Bible knowledgeable people. Since about 1500 or 1600, every European country has had a Bible translation in their own language.

Many before England ever thought to have an English Bible. That's where the English got the idea. It was from the rest of Europe. And so you have coming out of especially Germany, but you have people like Handel who wrote the Messiah.

You have Bach who wrote cantatas. His 80th cantata was Ein fester Berg. A mighty fortress is our God. Ist unser Gott, I guess, is the rest of the title. But they're using Bible texts. They were using Bible texts and publishing music that was acceptable, again, to a Christian-based people.

That's what we started America with. Our hymn books are written in 18th century European rules of harmony. And they do follow rules. But in the 1950s and the 60s, when we had what was called the rock revolution, it was an attempt to change America and make it a non-Christian nation.

Those involved in writing the music said this. In singing the music, they said, everything in America, in the way of art that has been written, has been Puritan, and there's nothing more to write. It's all been written.

If we want to write something original, we are going to have to write non-Christian, non-Puritan music with non-Christian philosophies. And that's exactly what they did. And so the rock revolution, those that call themselves survivors will admit it, they did something other than live a Bible way.

And they said, hey, we survived. Well, I will tell you that many of them did not. The bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, and many of the rockers didn't. They died young, just from the kind of lives that they lived.

But the music that came out of Shem was that kind of stuff, you know, and they sing unto their gods. But nothing Christian. What came out of Ham was a lot of African drumming, just a lot of rhythm coupled with voodoo.

Not Christian. They sang for sex rituals, for all of their various rites and passages through their life and following their things. They used the drums to call up evil spirits to give them power to defeat their enemies.

But they knew that it was an evil power and so forth. And again, nothing Christian came out of that. And these two types of music, Eastern music and African music, do not develop. The music has not done anything.

It has not changed. It has not grown. It has not gone much of any other direction. It stayed the same. Japheth's music grew and it changed. And it's really because the light of God's word was shed upon music and God blessed it because often the word of God was in the music.

That does not make Japheth better than Ham or Shem. Japheth is the builder. Japheth is the money maker. Maybe we'll talk more about this tonight or tomorrow. I'm not really sure. But we built our America on Christian type of harmonies, Christian type of music, things that were suitable, again, for Christians.

And when the rock revolution came, they said we want the drums from the jungle in the music and we want the elements of mysticism, New Age elements we would call them today. The people who meditate, they call it, in the East, will sit and empty their mind of everything.

So if they have a music that just helps them think into nothingness or don't think at all, I'm not just sure how to describe that, those would be New Age elements. Minimalism is another word that would fit with the New Age elements.

And back in the 60s, they brought a lot of those Eastern instruments in the sitar and the koto and they started to make them popular and put them into popular music so that we would get used to other cultures.

Now it's not that we were just ignorant. We did not want to adopt mysticism as our religion. And we did not want to adopt voodooism as our religion for our culture. We had developed a nation that had Christian principles and Christian churches.

Again, not all of them are preaching the gospel and weren't even then. But they still held the Bible and held to the confession in Jesus Christ as the savior of the world. And they were asking us to take these elements that bring their religion, of course, right along with them and throw it into our Christian music.

And we had already built a nation 300 years saying no to the heathen elements and kept those things out of our country. So the birth of rock and roll was we are going to throw off all Bible restraint.

And I should probably put 1960 or 70 there. You know this slogan? They wear it on the t-shirts. No rules. Well, jazz music and rock and roll break rules. That's why rebels like it. They break the rules of harmony.

They break rules often of melody. They break the rules of form. They break as many rules as they can. But we have said no. Now, the rock revolution didn't happen all in a day. When I was a teenager, the singing became more prevalent.

But before I knew much, Elvis Presley was already singing. The girls screamed for Elvis. The girls screamed for the Beatles when they came to America from England. And what they were screaming at was not that these were four or five or six men that were better looking than any man that ever lived on earth.

It had nothing to do with that. But Elvis was singing a music. The Beatles were singing a music. Rock and roll musicians were singing a music that said you don't have to let anybody tell you what to do.

And of course, I choose to let God tell me what to do. A Christian learns that. Matter of fact, you get a job, listen carefully to your boss. Unless he or she asks you to do something that's unchristian, you would do well to follow the instructions you get from your boss.

And so the rock generation was saying, we can sing anything we want. We can play anything we want. We can live any way we want. Just try to stop me. And that's what people do today, too, if they don't have the Lord.

But we want the Lord to stop us. I don't know if you've figured it out, but think of you at your very worst. Whatever your worst day or your worst act or your worst thought was, think if that were controlling your life.

You should say, I don't want that. I want God to keep me clothed and in my right mind. I want God to keep me sane. I want God to make me useful and productive in society. I want God to make me a Christian person, a decent person.

I don't want to be left to myself. I don't want to be full of sin. I don't want to be one of those dark and horrible personalities that creates more darkness and sin and trouble and heartache in this world.

And that's what we would all do. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. If we're left to ourselves. And so, people that love rock and roll, they love it because they won't let anybody, nobody will let them tell, nobody can tell them what to do.

Now, I have some examples here today. And back in the 50s, as I said, anybody could make a hit. Now these are not Christian songs. We're talking about out in the world and I'm missing a few examples. So we're going to jump from 1950 to 2000.

And I realize that's a big jump. But let's play example number one on that 50s jump. Can you do one before seven? Yes, we'll do seven too. But this is number one and I believe, what did I do with my, if I'm right, this is called the Third Man Theme.

And this is a 50s popular music piece and we'll at least let part of it play. And I think it's mostly mandolins. I don't remember. Go ahead and play it. I lost my little... Oh, that's it. Okay, go ahead and play the first one.

Imagine this on the radio station. Turn on the radio and this is what you get. Now, that is what as a boy, I grew up hearing. You could turn on the radio and you could hear that. I'm not sure what category to put that in.

I don't know what it really is. But it's not rock and roll. It's not sensual dance music. I'm not sure you even dance to it. It's called the Third Man Theme. I have no idea who the first man or the second man or the third man was.

But Mr. Anthem Karas, K-A-R-A-S, released that in January of 1950. Here's another one. Let's play number seven. This is a man from Milwaukee or Waukesha, Wisconsin. His name was Lester Palfus and they shortened it to Les Paul.

He designed electric guitars and he could demonstrate them and he could play them and he worked with recordings and sped recordings up and slowed them down and did some fantastic things with sound coming out of a guitar.

This is a song called Meet Mr. Callahan. This was on 50s radio. Now this one swings a little bit. 1952. The melody is syncopated. It's a bop. Whoa. Oh, I just, yeah, I was just... I don't think anybody would even recognize it.

That's what an electric guitar is supposed to sound like or can sound like. And he dubbed over, in the early days, before that was done, he dubbed his guitar playing when he was playing all the guitar parts himself.

But it's very melodic still. The beat is very light. The syncopation is very light. And you'll probably go around hearing that for months.

It won't be on radio. You can find another one.

Let's go to number 14. I thought this was unbelievable. It's a jazz piece and I thought it was for a detective movie and it ends up being it's a jazz piece. But let's see, what's the year on this? This was a popular theme in 1953.

I was all of three years old. If Mama turned the radio on, we might hear this. There's more to it. I never knew that. It's a detective program on it. This was the music. You turn on the radio in 1953, this is what you hear.

All of a sudden, they move from that very stern, pretty African jazz here, honking on the saxophone instead of playing it. Okay, that's enough of that. It turned into a dance piece and you hear the drums just took over the piece and they changed the whole nature.

Let me see if I can find something else in here. Well, let's see. We'd have to put on another. I'm not even sure what those are. Well, let's just leave that for now. I'd have to put on the other. There's two volumes.

Anyway, if you can get the corn piece. Now, in 50 years, about 50 years, I was telling someone when we turn on radio stations what we find. This is what the bulk of radio stations today are playing after what you heard from the 50s and realize that I lived through all of that and now we hear sounds like this.

You've got to wait a minute to hear that. But you'll hear a drastic change. What you just heard was music basically before the rock revolution. Even though it was worldly, it wasn't that influence of rhythm, rhythm, rhythm, body, body, body, flesh, flesh, flesh, pleasure, pleasure, pleasure.

There were a variety of influences. Okay, this is about 2000. I think it's 1998 or something. 99, 5 or 10 years ago. I hear two notes. I still hear two notes. I hear two more notes at the same time. And the drums come after.

Can you hum the tune? There isn't much going on. It's all turned into rhythm. This is what you played on American Radio Day. Okay, thank you. That's good. Now, there's a big difference between 1950 and today.

You know, what happened is when I was a kid, they started saying it's more important that we do what we want in our body. It's more important that we don't have any rules and restrictions on us than it is to keep sane, thinking man's music with original ideas and original sounds.

There is no music to that. And it doesn't matter where you put it on the recording. We could have played it later. It was just more of the same. I don't know what anybody would find interesting about that, especially with an overdriven sound.

You heard those other guitars? They actually make a melodic sound, but not in this piece. And it's something by Korn that's a theme from some strange movie, I guess. And I bought that about ten years ago because I had to bring a message and they said, please say something about these latest groups.

But the radio still sounds like that today, ten years later. It's a lot of noise. It's a bunch of angry sounds. You know, we're not to keep company with an angry man. And we're to put away anger, wrath, malice.

But of the ungodly, it says misery. That sounded like misery. That's what it was picturing, some hopeless sinner just screaming at life. Misery and destruction are in their ways. The people of this world destroy even what they want to enjoy, this world, more than we care about enjoying it.

We're going to heaven. And they've destroyed anybody's ability to enjoy music or they've destroyed it in the sense that they fill up the airwaves with it and nobody's got a chance to listen to anything that's any good.

Now, if we put on the other one, the 13 examples, I want to play what happened. And it's close, anyway. But what happened before the revolution and what happened to music coming from sometimes the same people after the rock revolution that said the flesh was the most important thing.

And so here we have from about 1957 a German folk song. This German family, came to America. Their name is the Von Trapps. How many heard their name? That's almost everybody. I want you to know, and you will hear it, this family could sing better than Julie Andrews and the bunch that ever put The Sound of Music together.

This is the real Von Trapps family singing. Like I said, from about 1957. No one's accompanying them. They're singing perfectly in tune. It's a family. Now, this is two generations later. This is a granddaughter, Elizabeth Von Trapps.

And this isn't the worst piece in the world, but this is after the rock revolution when rhythm has taken over our music. So here's Elizabeth singing Let It Shine. Okay. Now here's a third example. How many of you know the name Tennessee Ernie Ford?

Tennessee Ernie Ford. He's some kind of a Methodist Christian, supposed to be. In 1961 or so, we hear him singing a gospel song here. And then we're going to hear him in 1982, some 20 years later. Now this is pre-Beatles.

Rock and Roll had been out for about 10 years, but this is Tennessee Ernie Ford singing Ivory Palaces.

My Lord has garments of wool and my spray is like.

That's certainly before the rock revolution has had any influence on the singing and people listen to music like this and were blessed by it and their lives were helped by it. No one was worried about being cool, whatever that is.

But here's Tennessee Ernie Ford after a word record company said, look, we're not going to sell records like that anymore. This is 1982 and he's singing another gospel song called Operator Get Me Heaven.

Isn't that strange? In 20 years from singing only his great eternal love made my savior go to operator, connect me with the man. He lost something in there, didn't he? The rock revolution said rhythm was more important and that was the boogie.

And by the way, the boogie woogies are has always been the dirty boogie. It's never been anything else. The truth of the Bible sort of get trampled over and destroyed. Dick Anthony was a Christian man who worked with another fellow named Bill Pierce.

Bill Pierce played the trombone. Anyway, Dick Anthony sings a duet here with Bill Pierce day by day. This is 1961 roughly. And you'll notice just like Tennessee Ernie Ford singing Ivory Palaces, the melody and the words are the predominant part of the music so that we can get the message that we need and be helped by it and strengthened by it.

The melody is something we learn to appreciate and the tune is something we can sing and hum later. There's an actual tune that goes with the words that helps us remember them and maybe we'll look in the scriptures about that.

But once rhythm gets a hold of Dick Anthony and 20 years later or so in 1981, these are his 16 singing men and they're going to sing for us something that happened after the rock revolution. Got 60 seconds into the song and the Lord's name isn't anywhere to be found yet.

And we get the idea that they're saying well with the Lord's help I want to be a better person and do the best I can which is nowhere near as clear as day by day I'm seeking the Lord's strength and help to do what?

To be the person that we ought to be. Do you think in 20 years Dick Anthony became a better man? Especially through the help of that last song? I doubt it. But definitely a change. You have to admit there's a change.

When rhythm takes over the song you feel different sitting out there. Some of you get absolutely uncomfortable when the modern versions are put on. And some of you I hope not but there might be some of you that go boy that other stuff was so dull I'm glad they finally updated it.

And then you've got a problem. But here's the Haven Arrest about 1967 a wonderful gospel quartet that sang on the radio and had a burden to help people preach the gospel gave the gospel to them out over a radio ministry.

That spanned decades singing a song called Wonderful. Oh so wonderful. Is He. Wonderful is He. Wonderful is He Wonderful is He Who leads us lovingly. Wonderful.

And of course one of the amazing and blessed things about music is that we learn to harmonize. There's four men singing like one and following the accompaniment or the accompaniment is following them perfectly and they're singing about how wonderful the Lord is and certainly Wonderful is one of His names.

Now here they are about 12 years later in 1979 they've made a few changes of people in the group and again they're a little bit further past the date of the rock revolution and it's changed their music.

Let's hear them in 1979. Give Him the glory.

Give Him the praise. Sing out the story In different ways.

He is the music So sure and strong. We're just the singers The singers of His song. We've got a message A message we must share. Let's tell the good news To people everywhere. Let's keep it simple Let's make it plain That Jesus died and rose again.

And soon will come again. Give Him the glory.

Okay, just a sustained organ accompaniment but much different than the earlier song, Wonderful. A lot more rhythm to it so they changed and really gave in to what the rock revolution is demanding. People are listening more with their feet than their brain or their heart and they've got to have more rhythmic music.

Here is Dick Anthony, 16, singing men again in about 1965 singing something right out of the hymn book And Can It Be. The teaching of course was that when we use our voices we're supposed to sing with a pure tone.

The same way we're supposed to have pureness in our life we work hard to pay attention to details to sing with a pure tone to live a pure life. It doesn't come automatically because we're sinners. And so we seek the Lord's help and we stay in the Bible and stay in prayer stay around good Christian fellowship but notice too they lingered a long time on those they weren't hurrying through the song, were they?

They took their time singing and our forefathers all did too they were just wanting to absorb the music and gain spiritual strength from it. Now here's a fellow very very talented very talented his name is David Maddox this is from 1992 which is old for some of you even and he's doing a hymn out of the book I Sing the Mighty Power of God but watch what happens to the the nature of the piece when the rhythms are highly syncopated again, he's going to sing with fairly good quality and with a lot of musicianship behind him but the style is going to make the hymn come off differently I Sing the Mighty Power of God by David Maddox.

And of course.

There is something about I Sing the Mighty Power of God. That's not how we speak. We don't go. I'll hail the power of Jesus name. Let angels prostrate. Good music uses the natural flow of the text to bring it across as close to normal speech as possible.

I Sing the Mighty Power of God that made the mountains rise. I Sing the Mighty Power of God that made the mountains rise rise. Whatever the note is anyway. And of course when we syncopate we're putting accents in the wrong places.

It's very very unnatural. It's like someone asked me one time why don't we wrap the gospel. They wanted to know why we don't wrap the gospel. And I said well here, let me demonstrate it for you. If I knock on someone's door and I go hi, I'm from the North Pocono Baptist Church.

And I would like to tell you the most important news that you could possibly ever hear. And the guy would say ok, come on in make my day. What is this all about. And so I tell him well sit down. I gotta get warmed up here.

And I begin. For God so loved for God so loved the world the world, the world that He gave His only begotten Son. That whatsoever. That's not natural, is it? We communicate with sentences. They rise and fall and there's a flow to them.

God is the Word. Do you ever look at some of those sentences in Ephesians and Colossians. They're this long. They're ten verses long. They got semicolons and all kinds of things we never even heard of in there.

God knows how to put a sentence together. But when we sing I would love to tell you what I think of Jesus. That's a thought, isn't it? Not, I would love to tell you what I think of. We don't derail three times in the middle.

It's all the way through. For I found in Him a friend so strong and true. We call that a musical line. I would tell you how He changed my life completely. Not, I would tell you how He changed my life completely.

Never, never, never. The director flows when he waves his arms. It doesn't you know. And so we want our music to be as normal and natural as possible. And what Mr. Maddox did with all those extra notes can be very exciting and thrilling and rhythmically exciting.

Still we have to say is that better than what the 16 men 16 singing men were doing when they sang. And can it be there. I had no distractions from the text. It sounded a lot like the hymnal with a little bit of a special arrangement.

But let's go back to something again. 1964 the Beatles had just made it to America. They screamed as I said not because those guys were handsome but because they were offering a philosophy that said you can do anything you want.

You can have as much sex as you want. You can say the filthiest things that you want to say. And nobody can stop you. And you should have that right. And you should have that freedom. One of the fellas in this rock and roll book said if the parents knew what we were saying they'd break all the kids records.

And that's the truth. And it's only gotten worse since I've been acquainted with it from the 60s. But in 1964 the YMCA club in Oshkosh, Wisconsin filled with 10 year old kids. How many are 10 are under here today?

We got one or two. Okay how many are 15 are under here today? Alright but I want you to hear this. These are little kids singing most of them younger than you. And this gal was a friend of my wife's and she is being led.

The kids are being led by Miss Virginia Krieger who also led me when I sang in this glee club not too many years before that accompanied by my high school choir director's wife and Vicki Verhoeven is singing the solo.

But as I said these are 10 year old kids singing in 1964 and rock and roll hasn't hit them yet. Being taught to control her voice and make the tones be beautiful and rich easy for an ear to listen to 10 year old kid.

So here's a record album. 9 years later 1973 Bill Gaither made this recording and Bill had to make a decision. He promoted southern gospel music. And when he discovered that the kids are listening to rock he said do we rock our southern gospel or do we just keep it what it is.

And he decided to go with the flow and follow whatever the crowd was doing. And this album is called Sunday School Picnic. And the children are going to be singing This Little Light of Mine in 1973. Okay he just went full-fledged.

That's 60's rock, okay he went back 10 years and said hey if they're going to listen to rock we're going to sing the gospel and rock it. But remember rock is that locker room term for sex. He's singing gospel sex music.

The girls did not have a nice tone to their voice. It was harsh, it was hard. I'll tell you what if I had a gal that started to holler at me like those girls sounded she wouldn't be my wife. I'd never marry someone.

No, no, oh no you know it takes some work to develop beautiful music within your being within your soul. And you have to have some bible in you to have any sweetness. And those girls, whoever they were surely didn't have it.

If those were Bill's daughters and they probably were. I went to one Gaither concert in the early 70's and they sang This Little Light of Mine and they did it just like that and they had a long-haired bass player filling in the bass and the girls were dancing by the end.

And he just laughed about it. And he said, well I told them not to dance. But they just can't help it. No, not when you play rock music nobody can help it. It's so loud it insists that your body get up and move.

And that freedom that feeling of freedom. It's not really freedom but makes a person just want to exuberate without any restraint. So he told his girls don't dance. But they got up to dance anyway. It was modern dancing like you'd see at a dance hall.

And he never stopped them from doing it. Now this is probably the worst music has gone on to lose most of its melody which is coupled with the words that's supposed to be the most important part of music is the tune.

What did the rap singers do? They threw out the rock tune. What little there was of it. And they got rock music with no tune. And we'll I don't know maybe do that tonight we'll look at some bible definitions of melody, harmony, rhythm.

Maybe a little bit more at psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Even the definition from the bible of music. What is, God's sake, music is supposed to be. But now I forgot where I was going with that. Whew, that's not good.

I'm 58 and losing it. What were we just talking about? Mrs. Hives isn't even in here to help me. I do, we have like two more, one or two more. I was going somewhere with that thought I need to back up two thoughts before I you know what I was talking about?

I mentioned oh, melody, yeah. So the rappers, there we go. I just had to back up to that, to the rappers. So the rappers got rid of even the rock tune. They don't even have a tune, right? And melody is a part of music.

When you have no melody you really don't have music. All that's left is the chords and rhythm. You know there's something called trance dancing. And then they have no melody no words. Not even spoken words like the rappers have.

And they got no chords. All they got is rhythm. And the people jump up and down and that's it. And we'll see why they don't need any. Probably tonight is where we'll go with that. But music is deteriorating.

And you say, well where is it going? Back to the heathen jungles. Back to voodooism. Back to drugs. And they use them there. And booze. Booza is the African word for liquor. B-O-U-Z-A, booza. And they don't care if there's a tune.

They don't care if there's any words they don't care if there's any thought like those rock musicians said the greatest thing we're doing is mindlessness. Thoughtlessness. Just make a lot of noise. And so what's happening is people don't know how to sing with a musical line anymore.

And they don't care. People don't know how to harmonize anymore. And they don't care. They don't know how to sing with any energy like this little light of mine. I'm gonna let it shine. You may not like the sound of my voice but you know that I'm singing from my heart and I'm going to be heard and I'm going to tell somebody whether they want to hear it or not.

But we've got a boy here we just call him the Michigan boy. Because I don't know his name. This is for serious. It probably cost him thousands of dollars and he's a Christian that spent too many years listening to rap and rock.

And he's made an album. And this was the favorite pick by my friends on the album. They called it music. Music you love to hate I think is what my friend said it was. But this guy spent thousands of dollars and sent this to his friend in Bible college and said I made an album and this song on the album and it's so sad because he's doing his best.

I'm sure. But this is a song about heaven. Folks just in case you don't catch on and he's pondering what will it be like when I get to heaven. This is called I can only imagine listen to the quality of his voice and the quality of the presentation the energy.

Listen as you can hear joy peace, strength, exhilaration, anything.

I can only imagine what it'd be like this is from this year. When I walk by your side. I can only imagine what my eyes would see when I see your face is before me. I can only imagine. Yeah good lyrics there.

Yeah. Surrounded by your glory. What will my. Of course. Surrounded by your glory.

You add more drums now there's more life right wrong.

Will I dance for you Jesus. Oh no. Will you be still. Will I stand in your presence or to my knees. Will I fall. Will I sing hallelujah. Will I be able to speak at all. I can only imagine. I can only imagine.

Life is found in the Lord in him was life and life was the light of men. And the drums don't help his voice at all and they bring him in. He's still like wheezing. He sounds like he's got a lung problem.