I can't complain too much--the rest is great and I've composed nothing comparable. But some lines catch me sideways: e.g. ""And now I am happy all the day!"
A lot of hymns are aspirational, not descriptive; I have to cut some slack.
Saturday, July 15, 2023
Grumpiness about lyrics
The song Crown Him With Many Crowns has a line that drives me nuts: "Hark! How the heavenly anthem drowns all music but its own." Um... What's the point of creating at all if everything comes out the same? Immortal, Invisible says "in all life thou livest, the true life of all," which seems much more fitting--there are many expressions of life or music with the same enlivening life and music in them all.
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I have always liked "Come Thou Fount" well enough, but the part about raising an Ebenezer has got to throw visitors off.
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