Crowded

For those of you folks who don't know, I highly enjoy the David Crowder band. Their music is fantastic. I've been listening to Can You Hear Us several times over the past two days, which runs with my habit of listening constantly to the other CDs of theirs that I have, and I think I've come to a conclusion: David Crowder is my favorite band. This is profound because, if you don't know, I've always had a hard time nailing down ONE band as a favorite... and while all those other bands I ever list are also my favorite bands, I think it's safe for me to say that I have one that sits above them all -- and that's pretty much judging it by how often I listen to my CDs. They're starting to get beat up from me listening to them so much (thank goodness I have them saved on my computer now!). If nothing else, David Crowder is my favorite declared-Christian-band.

Anyway. That's a tangent thought. I actually just wanted to share lyrics that aren't by David Crowder, but it's a song he did a rendition of that particularly gripped me yesterday as I was driving back to Philadelphia in the morning, even though I've heard it many times before.... I first heard it by Delirious? , and it grabbed me back then too.

What can I do with my obsession?
With the things I cannot see
Is there madness in my being?
Is it wind that blows the trees?
Sometimes you're further than the moon
Sometimes you're closer than my skin
And you surround me like a winter fog
You've come and burned me with a kiss

And my heart burns for you
And my heart burns

And I'm so filthy with my sin
I carry pride like a disease
You know I'm stubborn God and I'm longing
to be close
You burn me deeper than I know
I feel lonely without hope
I feel desperate without vision
You wrap around me like a winter coat
You come and free me like a bird

And my heart burns for you
And my heart burns for you

And then some that actually are David Crowder:

I need words
As wide as sky
I need language wide as
This longing inside
And I need a voice
Bigger than mine
And I need a song to sing you
That I've yet to find
I need you, oh
I need you
I need you, oh
I need you
To be here now
To be here now
To here me now
To here me now