{"id":25,"date":"2012-11-04T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brownium.com\/BrownianMusic\/2012\/11\/04\/raise-your-hands-colin-gordon-farleigh\/"},"modified":"2017-04-20T12:54:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-20T17:54:26","slug":"raise-your-hands-colin-gordon-farleigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brownium.com\/BrownianMusic\/2012\/11\/04\/raise-your-hands-colin-gordon-farleigh\/","title":{"rendered":"Raise Your Hands &#8211; Colin Gordon-Farleigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1086\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-25-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/brownium.com\/media\/audio\/RaiseYourHands_Hymn_Colin.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/brownium.com\/media\/audio\/RaiseYourHands_Hymn_Colin.mp3\">http:\/\/brownium.com\/media\/audio\/RaiseYourHands_Hymn_Colin.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/brownium.com\/media\/audio\/RaiseYourHands_Hymn_Colin.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/brownium.com\/BrownianMusic\/?powerpress_pinw=25-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/brownium.com\/media\/audio\/RaiseYourHands_Hymn_Colin.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"RaiseYourHands_Hymn_Colin.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>So this is a long one, with more characters than most of my stories.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s how it happened.\u00a0 I started writing a hymn on the piano perhaps back in 2010 or so.\u00a0 Although I liked the music, I just couldn&#8217;t come up with any lyrics.\u00a0 &#8220;As we humbly bow before you&#8221; was all I could do.\u00a0 So I wrote to my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/gregscheer.com\/\">Greg Scheer<\/a>, asking for advice.\u00a0 Greg is a fantastic composer and an even better person.\u00a0 You should visit his sight and at least get to know him through his music and musings.<\/p>\n<p>Well Greg said &#8220;Why don&#8217;t you ask my friend Colin if he would write something&#8221;.\u00a0 I was familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/voicerev-sharemyjourney.blogspot.com\/\">Colin Gordon-Farleigh<\/a> through the songs he and Greg have written together and Greg posts on his <a href=\"http:\/\/musicblog.gregscheer.com\/\">music blog<\/a>.\u00a0 I wrote off to Colin asking if he would be interested, and to my immense pleasure, he agreed.\u00a0 Shortly thereafter I had lyrics to my hymn, so I put the whole thing together, and before you know it, Colin had it <a href=\"http:\/\/voicerev-sharemyjourney.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/we-humbly-bow-new-hymn-for-today.html\">published on his site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is where Raise Your Hands beings: Colin wrote back with lyrics, and asked me to put music to it.\u00a0 Being the putz that I am, I started, but never got it finished.\u00a0 I think part of the reason is that I had written a song called Raise Your Hands just a few days earlier, and it just kind of freeked me out.\u00a0 But I also had a bit of time away from writing due to other pressing matters in my life.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had this nagging guilt for the past year.\u00a0 Then last week Colin wrote to me and asked if I&#8217;d ever gotten it done.\u00a0 &#8220;No, but I&#8217;ll do it by next weekend&#8221;.\u00a0 Earlier this week I started over entirely with a more folky-tune on the guitar.\u00a0 But being unsure how Colin felt about that sort of music, I dug back in and finished up the original.\u00a0 And so, without further ado:<\/p>\n<p>Lyric \u00a92011 Colin Gordon-Farleigh<br \/>\nMusic \u00a92012 Stephen G Brown<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; 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