Can These Stones Live
It's been about three years ago now that our church decided to give up it's rental location of a basement hall and move into becoming a smaller, but more intimate, house church. After an initial time of adjustment, we were having a time of prayer during the morning service when the Lord spoke the words to me, "Can These Stones Live". So this creative journey has lead me to put forward that idea as song title or song idea.
My song idea came out of a time of prayer and seeking God, the scripture reference is from Ezekiel 37 of the vision of the valley of the dry bones. I used the clustering technique to build ideas surrounding the song.
In the final draft I've spent the rewriting process counting out syllables in verses and chorus balancing out each of the lines with each other. During to process I've changed some lyrics which also forced me to change some of the rhyming patterns. The bpm were also changed to 92 from the slow 86.