Take a Listen

I am going to talk about one song this week. Just one.

Here it is:

It's called Wooden Heart and it's by a band called Listener. I'll do my best to describe it and tell you what I think although it speaks for itself better than any other words could. The singer, if you could call him that (I would call him a performer) is named Dan Smith. He's amazing.

I honestly can say that I've never heard lyrics like this before in my life. When I first heard this song, the first two lines hit me like a punch to the face:

"We’re all born to broken people on their most honest day of living
and since that first breath... We’ll need grace that we’ve never give"

It's poetry. People don't write like this anymore. And the way he performs! He feels every single word and he believes it when he says it. Just like Bob Dylan's voice was perfect for his music, Dan Smith's is perfect for his. Listener has a very unique style, this spoken word/rock fusion. I know it can be hard to dig this stuff, but give it a chance, and definitely check out the lyrics.

The song is about a community who wants to build a church, but there's not wood. They live by the shoreline though, so they build it from a shipwreck.

It's so simple, and said in such elegant beautiful words.

When I went home for Spring Break, I showed this song to on of my friends. About half way through, she was tearing up, by the end: full blown tears. It's not that my friend is overly religious, the language just struck her in such a way as to make her cry.

Anyway, the drawing I did to this song was inspired by the lyrics:

"With tears of joy and tears of grief"

 I'm not really sure what it represents. It's just what I was feelin'...