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Dr. Peter and Ginger Breggin's avatar

Dear Dr. Christian: Where you were trained by paternalistic surgeons who said you needed to like the Beatles, in one case, or smoke, in the other....I was 'trained' by my teen-age daughter in the '90s, and her tribe, whom I used to drive to school every morning, on the joy and rhythm of Salt n Pepa, a female hip hop group and have had a strange affection for some hip hop and the rhythms of hip hop ever since.

A Christian artist, Dax, brought out "God's Eyes" a while ago, and it has now evolved into a Re-mix with a growing number of artists contributing their own verses.

Dax's chorus is:

I never seen God's eyes, but I seen the devil's

He walks with man on Earth at different levels

He knows the King we serve, so he hates and meddles

And prays that we all burn and turn to rebels

He tried to get my soul, but I'll never settle

I'll walk this lonely road from the 'burbs to ghettos

I'll take the gift bestowed and return the vessel

I am the one they chose, yeah, yeah, yeah...

and then each artist contributes a different verse with Dax' chorus following each one.

They are all really moving, but my favorite by The Mediery :

Let me take a second put myself in Satan shoes

If it was my goal to bring you down

And I knew it was a still small vote I had to overpower

I'd flood your head with the thousand voices a lot louder

Like anxiety, oh that one's pretty loud

How about depression? That one tends to shout

Throw in a little self loathing, little shame and doubt

And now we got ourselves a crowd....

But what knocked me over was the music and lyrics -- so powerful! Perhaps because this music speaks so directly about confronting evil, and I have never felt clearly that I was battling evil but now I do.

Here is the music video: https://youtu.be/1TyLXShB9DU

~ Ginger

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CharlotteKrahn's avatar

I agree with you regarding some of the shallow and repetitive lyrics of current praise music. My older friend used to call it 7/ 11 music. Seven words repeated eleven times. I'm fortunate that a bimonthly rousing hymn sing service is held an hour's drive from my home. For the most recent service we were treated to accompiament by a grand piano, organ and trumpet. Some of hymns were from the 18th century with the theme of thanksgiving.

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