Name: Shining Face
Duration: 3 min 44 s
Channel: Jon Kinsella / Joel Irwin
Description: "Shining Face" is a song by Joel Irwin. Written about and in memory of Kevin Obrien who died in 2002 from cancer.

Shining Face

Joel Irwin

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Written about and in memory of Kevin Obrien who died in 2002 from cancer.

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Joel Irwin

Composer, arranger, songwriter, orchestrator and award winning Film Composer/Scorer.

Composer, arranger, songwriter, orchestrator and award winning Film Composer/Scorer. Won "Best Score" in the 2017 48 Hour Film Project for "Hotline" and nominated for Best Score at the 2017 168 Film Festival for "The Last Command". Also nominated for "Notes (2018)" for "Best Sound Design" Scored/co-produced "Elegantia" which won Houston 2013 48 hour MVP (8 awards) and then placed 2nd to Paris Internationally at Filmapalooza (4 awards). Scored "Gift Of Grace" which won best Kidvid film at 168 Film Festival and "The Door" which won best Documentary at the 2017 168 Film Festival. Won "Listen And Exchange" music producer competition six years in a row. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5688919 Writes both live and electronic / sampled music for both instrumental and vocal performances. Writes in multiple genres including film/tv scores/themes/cues, classical (baroque through late romantic periods), jazz (small ensemble, bebop and big band), pop, adult contemporary and Christmas (and sometimes contemporary Christian). Arranges charts and arrangements for other bands as well as creating pop/jazz hit arrangements for a big band (live) as well as playing keyboards with them.

Song Info

Genre

Pop • Dance-Pop

Charts

Peak #341

Peak in subgenre #113

Author

Jon Kinsella / Joel Irwin

Rights

Jon Kinsella / Joel Irwin

Uploaded

March 05, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 4.8 MB • 128 kbps • 3:44

Story behind the song

These magical words were written by a good friend of mine in Denver - architect by day - poet by night. This is a 'give back' we composed to both Kevin O'brien's widow and the Mankind Project (New Warriors) (www.mkp.org)

Lyrics

I saw his shining face yesterday
And I smiled, cause he touched me in the way he always does
But now you say death called him away
No, you can’t say that! I still feel the warmth of his touch

I go out, I do the customary things
With a hollow in my heart, a crack through which I hear him sing
You know he touched me… I’ll never be the same
Awakened forever – oh, such a sweet, bitter thing… 

Passion like thunder, eyes all ablaze
You shook my soul to the core 
Yet touch so tender, sweet as a kiss
I hear… I see… I feel you still
Now that you’re gone.

I’m so forsaken, echoes and tears 
How can it be that this love I feel is real
Is it really you? I can hear you sing
On every face, every breeze that blows through this hole in my heart.

A smile caught in passing.  A brush on the skin
Gives me the strength to go on
I’m not alone now, in all these things.
I hear… I see… I feel you now  
I sing your song.

I see your shining face now every day
And I smile as you touch me in your gentle ways
So let them say death took you away
Far you may wander, but you have a home … my heart.