Physical CD with complete packaging (12 page full color insert in clear jewel case)
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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Physical CD with complete packaging (12 page full color insert in clear jewel case) plus Digital Album
Includes unlimited streaming of The Grafting
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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$20USD
Compact Disc (CD)
Three physical CDs with complete packaging (full color inserts in clear jewel cases)
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Video portrait of John Schlitt's European Tour 2009 with the band "Adahl."
(video preview: youtu.be/MBFOGWYK474)
Follow John and band on the Swedish leg of the tour, with live music performances of Schlitt & Petra songs, behind the scenes footage, practices, intimate moments with John as he walks through his life story from his childhood, historical photos/videos of Head East and Petra --- and much more! (in the vein of "Backstage Pass" by Petra)
Produced and directed by Rickard Karlsson-Widgren in Orebro, Aneby and Halmstad, Sweden June 17-21, 2009.
Length: 50 minutes
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lyrics
I miss the way it was
When joy came from above
And hope rang like a simple melody
We sang about that day
An innocence regained
Our eyes would open up and finally see
That’s then and this is now
And we’re older yet somehow
I long to know that music once again
So Jesus lead the way
And show me every day
All I have long forgotten
(chorus)
Just like the first song I remember
Every word was meant for me
And every verse and every line
Would set me free
To remember the first song I was singing
When my eyes were opened wide
When all the years of hurt were put aside
Bring back the first song
It’s a wide and open door
That you don’t use anymore
But you know the sun is waiting right outside
It takes a moment now and then
‘Till the words come back again
From a place you’ve long forgotten
(repeat chorus)
I want to hear again
I want to feel again
All I’ve forgotten
Oh, to be free again
Just like I was back then
When everything was so exciting
New to me, new to everything
(repeat chorus)
Oh, when my eyes were opened wide
When all the years of hurt were put aside
Bring back the first song
credits
from The Grafting,
released June 8, 2008
Words and Music by Dan Needham and Kevan Cyka
Multiple Gold Records, Multiple Grammys & Dove Awards; a Gospel Music Hall of Fame inductee as lead singer of Petra... Singing is his passion, Music is his world... Jesus is his Life.
