Loosely inspired by my recent rampant computer backup adventures, I’ve decided to release most of the recordings I’ve done over the past several years on one, shiny disc, aptly named Backup. This disc looks back at where my music has gone thus far, forcing me to press ahead to a new recording project in the coming year. This also marks the first time I have offered most of this music for sale.

Though I would consider Backup to be an EP, and not an album, it does contain 12 songs and runs almost an hour! For just $10, it’s even cheaper than iTunes. And the packaging is going to be pretty cool too. Or, actually, pretty nerdy …

Where can you get a copy of Backup? Well, you may just find one in your stocking. But barring that, you’ll find it on sale at most of my shows. Barring that, send me an email.

It still speaks what is on my heart today – perhaps more than it did when I wrote it. I hope you enjoy this free, previously unreleased version of the song, recorded at the Dream Centre in Los Angeles 2 summers ago.

Download the City Lights MP3

Enjoy!

Download the Creep Remix here

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This is the most electronic I have gone – a bit of an experiment but I like it. Hopefully you do too!

Download Never Let Go

The song is about Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane, wrestling with God about what he has to go through. It’s been fairly powerful for me, so hopefully it is for you too.

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This Garden grows death
in it’s damp and it’s dark
Your three closest friends
Are asleep on the bark
Of a tree that once grew tall
Offering it’s shade
But it’s dead and it’s mourning
it’s black and decayed
And You search for a place that is
Far enough out
So your voice won’t be heard when
You cry and you shout
Have You come here to bargain?
Have You come to ask why?
Is that fear or pure sorrow
buried in your eyes?

And isn’t it time to turn water to wine?
To drink a different cup …
To forget what’s on Your mind?
Seems a good time to take up Satan’s deal?
To leap from tall buildings
Without bruising a heel

But now’s not the time for miracles
Now’s not the time for trap doors and way outs
Now’s not the time for miracles
Everything comes in its’ time

It’s a strange sort of prayer
More a fight to the death
You walk back to your watchmen
There isn’t one left
They’ve all slept through this spiritual
Solar eclipse
They don’t get it
How could they?
Who would have guessed this?
And you drop to your knees
There’s no way out, not yet
And Your pores are all dripping
with blood or with sweat
Jacob left with a limp
Moses tongue couldn’t find an excuse
Paul’d be blinded
Why fight Him when You know it’s no use

When You know well that
Now’s not the time for miracles
Now’s not the time for trap doors and way outs
Now’s not the time for miracles
Everything comes in its’ time

I sit at her bedside
And cry to the roof
I don’t know why I hold on
When I have no proof
But there’s something in knowing
You knew how this felt
And there’s something in sharing
This hand we are dealt

But isn’t it time to say,
“Wake up … arise!”
“Take up your mat!”
“Come on open your eyes”
Isn’t it time now? He’s sick. Close to death.
He’s been in the grave for four days, why not yet?

Now’s not the time for miracles
Now’s not the time for trap doors and way outs
Now’s not the time for miracles
Everything comes in its time

Well, it isn’t new to me. I’ve had it collecting digital dust for over a year now. But since I am starting to release all this backlog now, you will likely see more “new” songs like this soon.

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Enjoy – and remember to leave your feedback in the comments section for this post. It’s the least you could do for a free song, right?

Download Song for Courage free here