Song Of The Week - April 3

Thought I wouldn't have enough time to write up an SOTW today eh? Well guess again! I still have time to stress out in the TMT and still come back to write my thoughts and feelings for this week! As you can see, this makes me happy :P. I know my commitments haha. Well today, we are welcoming a new month, and are also on the eve of celebrating for a certain someone who's on this blog... wonder who it is lol! Well, let's roll on out, shall we? I think that this song is quite well made, and it's also in the same key as Don't You Know (makes it more awesome :P).

Empty Handed - Raining And Ok, Always Will Be

"I am empty handed/singing/I'm broken and I'm stranded/crying out..."

Raining And Ok... what a peculiar name for a band was my first thought when I downloaded them. Does anyone have that problem with bands? If the name doesn't sound good to you, it doesn't matter if you've never heard them before, you'll judge how good they are based on their name. Am I wrong? I used to do that all the time, which hindered me from hearing a lot of good music earlier. I make sure now that I Myspace the bands before I make a decision. A book shouldn't be judged by its cover, and neither should band names (well, withing reason haha). This is one such case for me.

Empty Handed is a beautiful piano driven ballad, that I think expresses our emptyness, and our sense of loss, without something that sustains us and revives us. I was looking for a song to nominate this week, and couldn't find much that I wanted to expand upon. I found this song because I decided to go through all of my new music here, and I ended up finding this... I see this song as a representation of what we are without God: broken, empty handed and isolated. It is something I've been thinking about for some time, and this piece voices my thoughts exactly over the past couple days. We'll never be able to be complete or whole by our own means, not with material things, or occupations, social lives, or anything else someone might take part in to try and fill up a part of their lives. No matter how hard we try, we'll never be able to, and as the song speaks about in some lyrics, our cups will never be quite full without Him. I feel that these lyrics would've been something that I might have said, if I hadn't known God at this moment. He has helped me through so much, and to not have His presence over me, to not know Him... I know I'd be broken, and a lot nore helpless than I feel at times when I forget that He's still there... This is a sound message, helping everyone to acknowledge that we're broken without Him. Listen in everyone... listen.

Empty Handed - http://www.mediafire.com/?zowhe0dznzw