This Sunday at my church we are starting a two month Family Sunday School class, and it will be my first Sunday using a new curriculum called 252 Basics, based on Luke 2:52 (Jesus grew in wisdom and stature and favor with God and man). Anyway, I won’t get into that here, but to say that it is a ‘virtue based’ curriculum and each month will focus on a new “virtue” with July being “HUMILITY.” The curriculum provides some very modern and up to date music as well, and a theme song for each month. The song for Humility is actually pretty cool – I think the kids will like it, almost sounds like Hillary Duff. Anyway, I took about 30 minutes tonight at church to film some puppets singing it, and forced myself to stick to one take. (Otherwise I would spend four hours filming and increase my editing time as well!) Editing took a few hours more, but in the end, here is my FIRST MUSIC VIDEO:
With or Without Me (9.6MB QuickTime)
AND THE LYRICS, which are pretty good:
With or Without Me
Music and words by Candi Pearson Shelton, Reggie Joiner, and John Carrozza.
© 2004 FamilyWise Music (ASCAP). All rights reserved.
Which is why only small web version being postedVERSE 1
Guess what? I got a newsflash
And I feel like I’m gonna crash and fall
‘Cause I am not the center of it all.
I thought I was a big shot
But I don’t always have to be the best
Sometimes I just forget about the rest.
I need to be reminded that
I’m small in the grander scheme of things
I guess I’ll try humility
CHORUS
The world keeps spinnin’ around
’Round and ’round and it seems to do quite nicely
‘Cause it’s not about me
Each day the sun comes around
Goes up and down, it always does so faithfully
And that’s how it’s gonna be
With or without me
VERSE 2
It’s tough for me to say this
’Cause I never believed that it was true
But I’m really good at runnin’ over you
I’m caught and I’ll admit it
Consideration wasn’t even close
‘Cause I am what’s concerning me the most
I need to be reminded that
I’m small on the larger scale of life
I think I’ll have some humble pie
CHORUS
The world keeps spinnin’ around
’Round and ’round and it seems to do quite nicely
‘Cause it’s not about me
Each day the sun comes around
Goes up and down, it always does so faithfully
And that’s how it’s gonna be
With or without me
BRIDGE
I tried to steal the stage, I know
I want to make you notice me
I tried to steal the stage, but oh
Now I see, now I see, now I see, now I see
CHORUS
The world keeps spinnin’ around
’Round and ’round and it seems to do quite nicely
‘Cause it’s not about me
Each day the sun comes around
Goes up and down, it always does so faithfully
And that’s how it’s gonna be
With or without me
