Doug Lane
From Fellowship Family Church, Grand Prairie, TX
This is a song of brokenness in worship. We come to Jesus empty handed, having nothing to offer β no bribes in exchange for grace or blessing. But we also come recognizing that there is nothing greater that we could ask for than to ask for Him. All of our other needs are trivial β we need Him.
I've posted this song elsewhere, but I'm always looking for new feedback.
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I Need You
Doug Lane
Nothing but my empty hands
No gift to bring, no song to sing You
No carefully crafted words to say
No great works to prove my worth to You Lord
Nothing but my need
Nothing but my need
I need You
I need You
Nothing else will do
I need You
Jesus only You
Nothing but my captive heart
No offering but my broken failure
No excuses for my sin
No clever promises to earn your favor
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Thanks Marc. That had occurred to me, but I'm not sure where to go with it. I'd also considered using some kind of a bridge as well, but once again, not sure what to do with that... Something driving to give it some dynamics. What do you think?
Personally I a sucker for dynamic shifts. One nice thing about having a dynamic bridge in a mellow song is it offers options for the worship leader, you could "hang out" longer with a song (i.e. move from chorus to bridge if the congregation is engaged).
But I don't think this song suffers for lack of a bridge. Totally a matter of taste. One thing to consider, if you have too many "parts" (V, Pre-Ch, Bridge, Ch) it can get confusing.
I started working with another acoustic guitarist yesterday. I think I'm going to add in an instrumental sort of "selah" section.
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What can I say, itβs a really nice song. ο Feels really honest.
I could see room for some more development in the Chorus. I understand the power of a repeated line, but since each line is drawn out it gets a lot of emphasis. Maybe you could develop the chorus a little bit more if the repetition was replaced with another phrase? Just a thought, not necessarily an issue IMHO.
Good stuff!
http://quiescentdetonation.blogspot.com/ (blog)
http://www.purevolume.com/marcproctor (music)