Early Morning, part II:

So Thursday was another morning... another early morning.... 6:30 am. Bah. We did practice again and it went really well. Laura is singing for us and I am super happy about that. She decided that she wanted to do a song of her own and chose a song that she wrote called “Sugna’s Song” ... the song was about a little girl that Laura connected with in our first village. It was beautiful... even at 7ish in the morning... I think I cried.

Anywho... so last night was the song writer’s night and it was awesome. I decided 5 minutes after I got there that I wanted to do a special ditty of my own... a song that seems to plague me every time that there is coffee house or song writer’s night. This time I jumped off the deep end and performed a solo number... the only solo number that I’ve ever been able to do.... if you know the song, it is one that should have been dead and buried a long time ago: “Drop the Chalupa”.

It was glorious. I think I said something about not being a big rock star and that this was probably going to be a the worst song that they ever heard. I told the story of the song’s background and forging. “One night at a youth retreat some time ago, three of my very best friends and I were asked to write a song for the next month’s youth group theme. We thought this was cool accept for one small issue... the next month was Febuary and his theme was love... he asked four dateless losers to write a song on love. So here is the product of 4 people who have had no luck in that field... it’s called “Drop the Chalupa” and it’s a song about a date gone bad... I hope you hate it.”

It went so amazingly well for not playing it in a while. People laughed and there were even claps with the song. Brent came up to me after and was like “Dude, I didn’t know you were doing that! I leaned over to Jason when you first started talking and said ‘Oh man, this is social suicide... I dunno if I can watch’, but you delivered. It was the best I’ve ever heard that song done.”

It was funny because I was one of two people to do goofy songs in the song writer’s night. Everyone else did worship-type songs.... I guess my justification to do “DtC” is that it had the main staple of every worship song..... G.... D..... E minor.... and C.

Oh yeah - and the band song went really well too ;)