John Dandrea

This song is very special to me - with vivid imagery     (a sailboat out on the sea, at sunset).   It can be about a man letting his woman know that his love is true, no matter what troubles lay ahead. . . but it's also a song about a man calling out to God, to help him with life's storms and deep waters.  As long as he places his faith in God, he will  "make it through" the stormy  seas of  life. 
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I was focusing on the scene in Matthew 28:1-8.  By the time anyone got to the tomb, an angel of the Lord had come and rolled away the stone, saying  "He is not here, for He has risen as He said He would".   I think about that Empty Tomb, and what it means.  Jesus now sits in the Highest Heaven, at the side of God, and He is as real as real gets.  And no one can come to God except through Him. 
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This song has the distinction of being the only song I had written as a full choir song - with SATB voice parts.  It was difficult in the aspect of drafting a  musical score, but the song itself  had tumbled out easily. The words of this song are more like a prayer.  They are a very personal expression of  both  my  own  times of  trials  as  well as of  God's unending grace and forgiveness.   
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The particular phrase of piano rhythm of   "On My Knees" sort of started the entire song and lyrics at the same time.  Musically it's a fairly simple song, but served well to communicate the ideas that I wanted to express.  It came about as I was reading Luke 11:1, in which Jesus had finished praying and one of his disciples said to him "Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples".  And Jesus Himself gives us what we call  The Lord's Prayer.  
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The title "Somewhere Down the Road"  was the chorus part,  and I just worked back from that. The theme  I used for this song was that in our walk with Jesus throughout life, we keep our focus on God's spiritual Kingdom and not on the here-and-now. There were two ideas that were important to me - that we "walk that narrow road", and that we "take each day and help us to start anew".  
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The song's first verse was the amazing truth that in dying for our sins, Jesus conquered death through God's plan of salvation.  Jesus was the proof to US, that we can also live again through our faith in Him and in His blood that was shed for us. The chorus lyrics contain a simple prayer "Jesus, remind us each day to rely on You, to guide us through the rain".  
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