January 15
I don't have anything against Christmas.
Honestly I don't. I love the season.
I think, it's just different for me.
Growing up on a Christmas Tree Farm in South Langley I've had the chance to be "on the other side" of Christmas commercialism every year since I was born. I have never had a Christmas where I didn't look out in my backyard and see ragged families traipsing about, arguing over who would get to cut down the conifer, crying about burning their Christmas faces with scalding hot chocolate, chucking their refuse in my back lawn.
I've seen every kind of Christmas oriented person there is. The grinches, the newlyweds, the same-sex couples who won't touch that dirty tree for the life of them, the old farts, the young farts, the awkward guys with their overexcited girlfriends. You name it, they've come to get a Christmas tree from me.
It's not that I'm disillusioned when it comes to Christmas, I just see the rough edges for what they are a little more than other people might. And the most amazing thing is that I think they're beautiful. Poetic. A profound and thoughtful sort of paradox of sadness and dysfunction in this oh so joyful and peaceful season.
Maybe that's why every Christmas song I've ever written has to do with irony, sadness, and No Room In The Inn, or our hearts.
Cod Sent Flute Christmas is my attempt at bottling this poeticism up in a compact, under four minutes format. These songs stretch back several years from my exaggeratedly melancholy rendition of "White Christmas" to the most recent song I've written titled "Christmas Lights" regarding my experience of Christmas and Winter in Montreal.
I hope you like it.
Merry Christmas
-codsentflute
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June 25
So,
Perhaps you are wondering a little about what these songs mean cause I did take the time to write out the lyrics and they are kind of meaningful so please allow me to enlighten you a little.
The first new song Ends, Reminders, and Conclusions is a song I wrote last August after meeting this girl who, I'm not going to lie here, I was a little taken with on the first day I met her. Basically the song talks about the three things in the title. You know when you meet someone that you instantly think is really cool and attractive and has a great personality etc. etc. and you can't help but think about possibilities for you and them? In talking with other people my age, this extremely bad habit of jumping to conclusions, thinking your going to marry someone who you've just met, and especially filling in the blanks of what you don't know about a person with traits that you find the most appealing, seems to be fairly commonplace, amongst both girls and guys. It's also a reflection of different summer experiences described in imagery and then tagged as reminders of this girl, cause I thought about her a lot back then, especially in the situations I described. As far as the girl goes though (In total I've probably only ever hung out with her maybe a maximum of four times), I haven't seen her for close to a year now, and I may never see her again...which I've come to grips with, something that's been really good for me cause I basically gave up the whole deal to GOD. If it's in His plans that I get to know her better some time in the future then He'll make the way. It's comforting to know that I can trust GOD to have the best possible future in mind for me as long as I'm obedient to him, and in trusting him, let go of things like this.
The second song, Explode, is a bit of a lyrical mish mash with no real clear episode or purpose to describe but I guess if i had to comment on its meaning I'd say it deals with the creation of and release of tension, musically and thematically. The song's chords seem to perpetually build and then the chorus drops back before cutting out for a slow and soft transition back into the second verse. The motif of exploding is a symbol of unvented pressure in life building up to who knows what and described as the exaggerated explosion, creating a further paradox in the fact that I sing the harsh and violent word "explode" in a fading, ultra soft vocal each time I use it.
The last song "Come on, come on, come out of where you are" was written lyrics first (unusual for me) with little structure and basically as a veritable spilling of emotion at the end of a particular stressful day in my crazy busy life with school and commitments where I looked up from some dreary studying outside my window and it was just really beautiful and I opened the shutters and the breeze coming in was just incredible and really gave me a clear perspective on how I just needed to take a break. It also talks about a friend of mine at school who leads a similar life to mine and who I had seen nearly have a breakdown that day as a result of too much pressure from everything with scholarship applications and university deadlines and plans etc. it made me really sad to see just stress hurting my friend like that but I could tell that I wasn't that far away from a similar state either. The end of the song proposes the simple solution of a refreshing walk in the rain without caring about anything but also reminds me that life in either extreme will leave you unhappy.
So yeah, that's basically a little explanation for each of the new ones. Hope you can catch a little of glimpse of the how and why of me writing songs.
-codsentflute
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June 19
Waiting
When I was about thirteen years old I came to an unusual realization in my life. I looked around at my friends who were "dating" and caught up in that whole rigamarole and decided that there had to be something better than all of the drama and heartbreak these friends of mine were putting themselves through over silly and pointless highschool relationships.
I figured that if I actually loved someone, really truly loved them enough to be able to envision myself married to them at some point down the road and not recoil in fear and horror, then there was no way that I would go out with them while I was still in highschool because all the examples of my friends had shown that this kind of thing simply didn't work out.
Dating during highschool seemed to be an extremely predictable recipe for breakup, and this wasn't something that I wanted to experience if I didn't have to.
So I decided to wait.
As I did so I began to realize that my ideas weren't quite so radical. Several of my friends began to come to the same conclusions that dating during highschool just didn't seem to make much sense and together we were able to stand strong in our convictions.
Another influence that helped me to really define what it was that I believed in was the book
"I Kissed Dating Goodbye" by Christian author Joshua Harris.
After reading this book I began to understand that perhaps the concept of waiting for dating that I had commited to in my heart was exactly what GOD had planned for me.
It comes down to an issue of trust.
Do you trust that in the intricate workings of GOD's master plan for your life there is a perfect wife or husband for you? If we truly believe that then why do we feel the need to pursue non-serious relationships such as the ones I witnessed in my middle school? What's the purpose of going after girls (or guys) in a romantic way without any intent of commiting to them for any extended period of time? I mean one day you're going to look into your wife's (or husband's) eyes and pledge your undying love for them in the binding commitment of marriage. I'll bet at that point you'll be wishing you hadn't flirted with commitments while you were still young and ignorant in the days of your youth.
I just don't think that GOD intended for the hearts of his children to be broken and twisted by the pains of countless breakups and countless meaningless relationships.
This song is basically me thinking about the wife that GOD's got planned out for me.
I'll be Waiting
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May 8
This is Love
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
1 John 4:10-11
I first came across this verse while reading Joshua Harris' book, "I kissed dating goodbye". It was under a heading that was simply titled "This is Love". I read this book several years ago and honestly it revolutionized the way I look at dating, relationships, purity, and most importantly, love.
The world presents us with a counterfeit: all the sensuous, sexually inciting temptations of immorality and sneers with glee saying: "This will satisfy you, this is what you've been looking for."
Jesus shakes his head, turns to the side and points at a simple wooden cross on a cold lonesome hilltop. "This is Love"
This won't fade out
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April 28
Psalm 141:3-4
"Take CONTROL of what I say, O Lord, and keep my lips sealed.
Don't let me lust for evil things; don't let me participate in acts of wickedness.
Don't let me share in the delicacies of those who do evil."
This was David's prayer. It's mine too.
I kind of forgot till now but as you may have noticed the lyrics for "Control" are based on this verse.
- Cod Sent Flute
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MikeC4
Quoi? Yeah...
posted Mar 29
van_binder
YEAH....PEOPLE WITH FACES!!!!!!
posted Aug 29
forgivenlove
SCOTT!! So pretty much I got this so I could comment
you. It is my only way of keeping in touch since you
are too good for email and im at camp, which is RAD!!!
Congrats on winning everything at awards night haha.
So do you check this thing often?? Any ways yah the
blog for wait is SOOOO cute!!! Very.....inspiring! lol.
Anyways have a rad time this summer and YOU can
comment ME haha. okay ttyl
posted Jul 01
Timmyg16
Wow wow wow, dude that is so great, everythiing from
the lyrics to the frogs, wow really great job, now all
u need is someone to play that electric part, (Iheard
this guy name Timmy G is pretty good)lol anyways keep
going man. Peace out
posted May 11
cod sent flute
Unbelievable tunes Coddy. You are a flippin
genius. keep druggin along -Cod sent Neufeld Flute
posted May 08
Timmyg16
wow man wuts up with ur blogs they are deep but i guess
ur a deep guy..........just joking they are sweet u
should make them into songs they will really work
anyways keep on trucking and cant wait till u start
making songs with ur real band......Dont forget we are
still hear.
posted Mar 19