“Survey says?!” Remember that question on Family Feud? Apparently that show is still on TV. But I haven’t watched it in decades, so I can’t say. But the reason I bring it up is because of the whole “survey says” thing. And that’s because I want to recommend you keep believing the Truth regardless of what any survey says.
Keep believing the Truth because it shall make you free.
Yeah, many (if not most) people misquote that verse in the Bible. They say “the truth will set you free.” But your Creator said it “shall make you free.”
It’s those kinds of nuances and phrase twists that bounce around my brain when I write songs. Sometimes even I don’t notice how much influence a Bible verse had on something I wrote, until after I finish it and read it all together. I think that’s cool. Because I love how God can work on me through my own writing. And there’s no doubt I need His work on me and in me.
One example of subtle nuances is my song, from 1986, called “Hold On.”
It’s one of those songs that makes a very nice lullaby for a parent to sing to a child. But it can also be a love song between adults. And it also contains lines that follow God’s own messages to us. I’ll share it with you. And maybe you’ll see what I mean.
Here are the lyrics. And you can hear the whole song in episode 625 of the FunderCast
Hold On
I would love to take you in my arms
And capture all your dreams that get away
And put them in your heart where they belong
And fill it full of love so they can stay.
But I wonder if there’s magic in my hands.
And I don’t know for sure what I should do
To make your monsters fade and disappear.
So I can only sing these words to you.
Hold on; you know you gotta hold real tight.
Gotta keep your dreams where they’re easiest to see.
Hold on; I know you gotta hold real tight.
If you look behind the Love, that’s where they’ll be.
I would love to see your smiling face
And know that at least in some small way I was there,
When you needed someone to help you through your darkness,
And help you get your wings back in the air.
Chorus
You got to keep believing in your choices.
No one but you can really clear the air.
And if you find you’re hearing different voices,
Then it isn’t just a passing love affair
Repeat 1st verse and choruses to end
© 1986
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