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Lord, prepare Us for Your Advent by kristyjo [Email]
Genre: Holiday

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Hits: 1289
Comments: 12
Votes: 7
Plays: 254
Last Played: Nov 14, 2008 - 03:48:07 PM
Downloads: 80
Fans: 5
Uploaded: Dec 05, 2005 - 10:30:07 PM
Last Updated: Dec 05, 2005 - 08:03:28 PM
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Keywords:
Advent (3), Christmas (153), folk (369), guitar (906), vocal (150)
Description:
This is a song I wrote for the Advent season. I sang it for church last Sunday, and recorded it that afternoon with my new Snowball mic. The voices and guitars are me playing 'live'. The bassline is a software orchestral bass from jampack 4. Time limitations meant that I chose to leave in some less than perfect moments, and I also discovered that the click track was faintly discernable under the guitars. Oh well. My new Snowball mic has a much warmer sound than anything I've used up until now.

Lyrics:
Lord, prepare us for your advent, give us open hearts, we pray,

So your love will flow among us as we celebrate these days.

Word made flesh you came to earth, just a babe of lowly birth.

Lived your life as a man among men,

Gave your promise to come again.


Lord, Prepare us for your advent, give us holy hearts, we pray,

So your truth will shine out from us as we celebrate these days.

Light of the world, you came that day,

to save us from sin and to show us God's way.

We've seen your example, accepted your grace,

now make us the light for this time and this place.


Lord, prepare us for your advent, give us loving hearts, we pray,

So your Spirit lives among us as we celebrate these days.

Love incarnate, you came to be the bearer of God's true charity.

Let each believers own life now express

a bit of your love and holiness.


Lord, Prepare us for your advent, give us open hearts, we pray,

So your love will flow among us as we celebrate these days.

Hardware:
PB 15", Snowball mic, inadequate headphones.

Software:
GarageBand
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Nice song. &mdash 12/06/05 - 04:24:35 AM
I like this song very much. Nice guitar playing;o) I like the lyric too.
thanks for sharing.

- Hawks

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Lovely song &mdash 12/06/05 - 07:24:43 AM
Beautifully played and sung.

Welcome to MacJams, kristyjo!
Thanks for posting your music here :)

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Leaving in imperfections.. &mdash 12/06/05 - 10:55:01 AM
...is what makes it art. Taking them out is only craft. But darned if I could find the imperfections here! Really nice! The guitars seemed clearer than the vocals. The vocals sound nice, just not as loud as the guitars, more distant. I would prefer that they were a little closer. It's a great melody. Not really a churchgoing type myself, as I am more of a Buddhist these days, still I enjoyed the lilting quality of this song.

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Welcome &mdash 12/06/05 - 02:39:50 PM
Delightful

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Rare sound &mdash 12/07/05 - 06:38:48 PM
Such sweet and pure voices. Gave me a bit of bad vibes about me picturing a TV-commersial for God being shown. But i certanly dont want to picture that, so elsewhat i find this tune quite odd and interesting. Your quality if real fine, the tones was pure positive and kept upper. As an old programmer i do find this to be something like an audio programmed mood. I still feel its directed ease and thats interesting.

Put some more stuff up, will listen with great joy and attention.

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Thanks &mdash 12/09/05 - 04:09:16 PM
Thanks for listening and commenting. The quality of music here at
MacJams is really good, so I'll do my best to keep it that way. I look
forward to hearing more music at this site, as well as posting more, too.

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nice &mdash 12/09/05 - 04:59:01 PM
like the singing and playing. The Jam pack 4 is a nice addition.



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Praise God &mdash 12/15/05 - 12:44:35 PM
Thank you for this refreshing track. Wonderful vocals.

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Yes! &mdash 12/24/05 - 04:59:05 AM
Yes!!!

.. from a late coming listener! This is a great song and very well
performed. From now on you go into my favs so I won't miss any furhter
post from you.

Hope to hear more songs from you and your guitar!



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Absolutely beautiful. &mdash 05/12/07 - 01:43:37 PM
You have a lovely voice and sing wonderful harmony with yourself. The guitar tone is sweet. This is a well-written song and all things considered is well arranged and produced. A very moving song.

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What a delight... &mdash 05/18/07 - 12:41:55 PM
to find a new comment on an 'old' song. Thanks for listening and for your thoughtful comments!

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Beautiful &mdash 12/01/07 - 04:27:28 PM
holiday song ! Wish I'd been in the Church when You sang this !!! Now it is ADVENT once again.. : )I like Advent - candles & such everywhere in Peoples windows I love to take it real easy & not be apart of the hysterical Christmasbuyingmania(!) Have a real Good Advent Bless You

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