Another inspirational song

Once again today the readings from Judges and Mark do not lend themselves to much commentary or amplification. Judges is still more violence, and while Mark 7 contains a couple of interesting encounters it didn't leave me with much inspiration.

 Then on the way in to work this morning I heard an old song from the group "America" entitled Lonely People and remembered that Dan Peek - an original member of the band had died just last year. Dan was a devout Christian and had recorded a slightly different version of the song which I will offer here. This is the original version of the song Dan wrote. Their record label and the guys from "America" didn't think a strong Christian song was appropriate for their debut album. Later, Dan recorded many Christian albums. Here is how he intended it to be sung.  Lyrics below.

Lonely People by Dan Peek

This is for all the lonely people 

Thinking that life has passed them by

Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup

And give your heart to Jesus Christ 

This is for all the single people 

Thinking that love has left them dry

Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup

And give your heart to Jesus Christ 

Well, He's on his way 

He's coming back some day

He's coming back to take us home (hit it!) 

This is for all the lonely people

Thinking that life has passed them by

Don't give up until you drink from the silver cup

He'll never take you down or He'll never give you up

But you'll never know until you try