A Song About a Sandwich

  This is another post that came from a failed song idea. You may discover why the song failed as this post progresses, but the concept is still worthy of note.

The inspiration for this song originated from a single line that randomly popped into my head. That thought was: who on earth would write a song about a sandwich? The irony of that statement was acute when the thought played itself out. 

Let me take you back in time to 80 years ago, when our great grandparents were young. Back in the days of horseless carriages, house phones, and vinyl records, people would have shuddered to think of what we listen to today. The question might have arisen back then: “who on earth would write a song about a one-night-stand?”. Yet, how far have we come since then?

Think about 40 years ago, in the days when our parents were children themselves. Even then, songs were far more conservative than they are today. In the 1970s people might have asked: “who on earth would write a song with explicit language and content?”. Yet we treat it like the non-ideal norm. It’s not what we’d want it to be, but it’s what we have; that’s our attitude towards music today.

So, we come to the title of this post. In today’s world, with the horribly foul and suggestive content of songs, pop culture might ask: “who on earth would write a song about a sandwich?”, as if that is so impossible to fathom. Really, we are questioning people who would write songs about sandwiches, and not those who write and sing songs that uplift sensuality and hate, songs that glorify human desire and animalistic instincts with no point or meaning. Why? Is it such an odd thing to write a song about a sandwich, and it is so normal to write songs about raping and manipulating people?

We’ve fallen into a pattern of worldliness, desensitized to right and wrong, blind to blatant black and white lines. Somehow it’s absolutely normal to sing about passion and lust, but who on earth would right a song about a sandwich?

Something simple, but yet profound. The goal of the song was to point out how people would think it was crazy to write a song about a sandwich, and yet think it’s completely normal what people are writing and singing about today. Thus, the point of the song would be to awaken people to the fact that it shouldn’t be normal to have songs like those that we have today. 

With all of the pointless songs people sing and write, why not have ones that are pointless and at the same time, harmless. Your standard bubblegum pop song is glorifying love or human emotions and pleasure. Why not have songs equally as stupid and yet with a wholesome premise? 
You get my point? No matter how you try to fit it, a song about a sandwich just doesn’t mesh with the world in which we live. Eventually the time will come, eventually we will realize that stupid, pointless music does not lift us up, it tears us down. So I ask you, who on earth would write a song about a sandwich?

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–-the anonymous novelist 

Hope For Tomorrow

For the past several days I have been hard at work uploading my family’s newest CD to digital download platforms. I am excited to tell you all that it is now available!

This project was fun to record, the entire family got together to make it happen. Who knows how many more times that will happen. It is rare nowadays that Caleb and his family, and Gabrielle and Robin are with us at the same time. God gave us 16 years together before Caleb left, and another 3 years before Gabrielle left. I don’t know what plans God has for the rest of us, but I do know that this ministry has touched the lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people.

Some of you may know this, but I have been travelling and singing with my family since I was 4 months old. I’ve never know anything else. This ministry has been my life, I have grown up with it and therefore have a love for it and a desire to see it continue. I’m grateful for the blessings God has bestowed upon us thus far, but just because we are doing what God want us to do, doesn’t mean we are exempt from problems. In fact, I’m inclined to think that living in a metal rectangle magnetically attracts problems of all kinds.

Point in case: we got back from Uganda in the middle of last month and took a few days to cool down and recollect our senses; after which we were scheduled to sing about 6 hours away from where we were parked. Half way to our destination, something snapped, Dad found a mechanic garage that would check it out to see what had happened and how bad it was. Long story short… well, shorter, a stabilizer rod had broken on one of the back tires and could have resulted in the bus tumbling end over end off of the highway. Needless to say, we weren’t going anywhere any time soon.

Without a bus, and a concert to get to, we checked around for a rental car that would get us there, but no one, literally no one had anything. Turned out, another group that was on their way to the same event had stopped to get their air conditioning units fixed and were able to swing by and give us a lift to the event. Living in hotels for the next several days til we eventual got the bus back after about a week was an interesting, but not uncommon feeling. Things like this just happen, and that’s what keeps life interesting, exciting.

Check us out on iTunes, Spotify, Rhapsody, Xbox Music, Amazon MP3, Google Music Store, Shazam, our website, and several other platforms as well. Let us know what you think of the new album.

As always, thanks for reading.

–the anonymous novelist