Draw Me Close

"Draw Me Close" is a famous worship song. The lyrics are simple yet meaningful, the chords are easy yet beautiful. Of course, I strongly encourange those who never listen to this song to check out the original version on youtube, the one that Michael W.Smith did is quite good.

The composer of this song is Kelly Carpenter (don't be fooled by the name, he's a guy). The instinct of composing this song is when he realized he put his ministry in front of his relationship with God. This often happen to those always-busy-for-church kids, where we were seeking fun or too busy handling church events, and forgot what our true objective is.

Kelly Carpenter

After a sunday service in late Jan 1994, Kelly's heart is heavy where he knew God doesn't want this from him. A prayer just came to him and it sounds like this, "I lay it all down again, just to hear You say that I'm Your friend". Within 20 minutes, the song just spilled off.

This song is actually a very personal song that he did, and he rarely plays it in church. Until he met Canadian worship leaders Andy Park and Brian Doerkson. Cut the long story short, Andy heard the song and invited Kelly to lead it on a live record in Jun 1994. Later being recorded by The Katinas, and became more popular after Michael W.Smith, which has sold over a million copies in just about a year.

Being one of my favourite worship song, I re-arranged it into my style (from a sentimental and hopeful song into my "sad prince" theme). It took me 5 days to complete this demo, where I'm having headset for more than 5 hours per day =.=", ear pain. It is said that when we are wearing earphone for 1 hour, the amount of bacteria/germs in our ear increases 700 times! Anyway, I don't care as long as I complete my song.

Although I re-designed the verse and chords, most of the effort are put into the last 2 choruses, which remixed 17 songs including Draw Me Close. Listen it yourself, and if you think this idea is a disaster, I have nothing to say as well.

"The men finish up their drinking bouts and off they go to find some prostitutes. Their love for shame is greater than their love for honor. So a mighty wind will sweep them away."
-Hosea 4:18-19-

Pray that God will continue to walk with me in whatever situations that come ahead. Also pray that You let us realize the importance to lay down all earthly things and befriended Your eternal love. In Jesus name I pray, Amen.