Andrew Steven

  • Help Me Name This Song

    I need your help. I’m stuck. I’m not sure what the name of this new song should be. I have a few ideas, but I’d love to hear yours as well.

    You can vote using the poll below

    Here are the lyrics:

    I’m a dead man walking on holy ground
    looking for anchors to hold me down
    trying to find some life among the dust
    glimpses of gold beneath the rust

    my dry bones are thirsty
    these lungs need new air
    I’m craving an ocean
    that flood walls won’t bear

    Chorus:
    this life is not my own
    my blood is not the only
    blood that’s pumping through my veins
    replace my heart and soul
    take everything I know
    so only You remain

    not who I am or what I do
    will thin the distance between me and you
    and mountain tops where earth and sky collide
    won’t bridge the gap or thin divides

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  • Finishing lyrics.

    Finishing lyrics.

    May 4, 2013 | 0 notes | #lyrics
  • For everyone who asks… No, my guitar does not have a mustache.

    For everyone who asks… No, my guitar does not have a mustache.

    May 5, 2013 | 0 notes
  • Where Earth & Sky Collide

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    Over the past few months I have been working on writing and recording a new collection of songs. In the midst of a move from Southern California to the Pacific Northwest, and after a particularly difficult year, I found myself processing a lot of things, learning to forget others, and finally figuring out some (hopefully)…

    There’s an old Celtic saying that says that heaven and earth are only three feet apart, but there are a few thin places where that distance is even smaller. I’ve also heard stories of sherpa’s climbing Mount Everest, offering prayers of protection and favor as they believed they were literally scraping the border between heaven and earth. The poetic side of me loved this imagery, and I soon became convinced that our job, our goal, was to find and create these thin places… But thinking like this gets you trouble. 

    We don’t will ourselves closer to God. 
    He’s already with us. 
    The gap has already been bridged. 
    The distance has already been thinned. 

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