Hey everyone...thanks for stopping by for a quick read...
I'm super excited because I just got the final mix today for my 2nd album COLOR and I'm so thrilled with how it all turned out! John Johnson of Johnson Brothers Studio is amazing! If you ever need to record, please go there! He's got the skillz to pay the billz!!! Thanks John for taking this project on and making it something really special. You helped me see the possibilities and believe again. I'm forever grateful.
I've decided to blog everyday for the next 9 days to give you the story behind each song from the album. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy day/schedule to read this. I hope these songs encourage you - deeply. I'd love to hear your comments, feedback, etc.
Don't forget the release party is Friday, Oct. 7th, at 7pm. The album will be avaliable on iTunes, Amazon, CDbaby too!
(tell your friends to tell their friends)
I would love to give a huge shout out to a few of my sponsors: Utopia Hair Salon, Trinity Lawn Care & Elite Carpentry Inc. THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY!!
If you haven't gotten your tickets yet, go to my website to purchase them for $5 at www.carriebowen.com
If you would like to pre-order your copy of the album for $12 and a chance to win a cool color prize, please send a check or cash to my address:
2592 Tom Odum Rd
Monroe, GA 30656
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THANK YOU!!
So, here's the first song story....
When Love Comes Back
By Carrie Bowen & Katie Melton
I woke up one morning with these words "little fingers reaching upward, pulling down realities covers, with 'good morning' kisses, 'I love you' whispers". I immediately grabbed a piece of scratch paper and used my pillow to brace the lyrics as they began to flow. I had been following one of my friends blogs who had recently lost his wife. His story impacted my life on so many levels. His words were emotional and ever so transparent. I would literally read his grief-stricken words and sob. How will he and his little girl recover from this emptiness? How? My heart broke for him & his daughter and all I could do was pray.
I didn't lose my husband to death, but our marriage was dead so a part of my heart could relate just a tiny bit to what my friend was feeling. I wondered how we could ever recover from this brokenness? How?
As the song came together, I knew this was a song of "working through" the process of the fact that one day, love would come back. Deep inside, despite how I felt, I believed love would return. Today my friend has been found by love again and he is about to be married. I'm so thankful that God is good and He really does care for us. His word says that He will not forsake us. This means He will not FORGET us. Even in the most painful, broken, wounded places of our hearts, God is restoration and in Him our love and hope remains secure.
My sweet niece Katie helped me write this song and she was a great sounding board for the grammatical challenges I still face with writing. She better be good at writing since she is at Emmanuel College studying to be an English teacher! Ha! So proud of you Katie! Thank you for pounding through this with me. The looks you gave me were priceless! AND thanks for going to the studio with me on that first day!
This was the first song I wrote when I moved back home to Monroe and was the first song I recorded at Johnson Brothers Studio. I played it on piano and cried. From that day forward, I knew this was the rebirth of purpose and a resurrecting of a dream that had died. I'm now on a musical journey that has been so fun and full of life. So, I had to make this the first song on the album because it's the right thing to do. I hope you'll let the song inspire you to believe in LOVE again and put your hope in a God who will walk with you through the valley of the shadow of death to the other side where love is.
Thanks for reading...
When Love Comes Back
By Carrie Bowen & Katie Melton
Vs. 1
Little fingers reaching upward
Pulling down realities covers
With "Good morning" kisses, "I love you" whispers
Our stories become dream-like sequences
Waiting for response
Just a glimpse, a flicker of you
PRE-CHORUS
My light, my love
Suspended between here and up
CHORUS
When love comes back again
I'll hear our song again
A distant lulaby over the clouds
I'll see your smile again
I'm lost in love again
My heart will beat again somehow
My heart will beat again somehow
VS. 2
Unlocked tears water the earth
I shout, I scream my prayers cresendo
Do you hear this cry?
You will not stay silent I know
BRIDGE
I hold tight to the song of You
Every memory brings me back to truth
The song of You is the song of love
Heavenly melodies are joining us
(me & katie)
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