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Just Look at You
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A prayer for our world addressed through a memo to myself.
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Introducing the greatest talent ever to emerge from the orange bedroom at my parents house. I play guitar like.... well, like a guy playing guitar. I tickle ivories. I twiddle on the computer. I sometimes enjoy beans on toast for breakfast. And in the cracks between the eating, sleeping, laughing, crying, working, breathing experience that is my life there sometimes slips out songs like these.
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Genre
Rock • Folk Rock
Charts
Peak #28
Peak in subgenre #7
Author
Adrian J Pratt
Rights
Adrian J Pratt 1975
Uploaded
May 27, 2013
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MP3 3.5 MB • 160 kbps • 3:06
Story behind the song
Looking at our big beautiful blue and green planet it is tragic how she is abused. There is much suffering. There are deep scars. It's messy. For sure there are places of tremendous beauty. There are also wastelands that we have inflicted by our greed and lust for power. I'm not convinced that creation can truly be healed unless the connection with the Creator is also restored. This was one of the first songs I wrote after allowing the Christian message on board my life. It in part reflects on my own sense of alienation and the foolishness I felt at having tried to live without reference to the holy for many years... not realizing the mess I was making. But it's mostly a prayer for our world... that our alienation from God can be overcome. The New Testament speaks of "All creation straining" to see God's Kingdom come into being. Yet so often we seem to be pulling away, rather than towards. Maybe it is arrogant to declare 'I know I have found the right road'. Yet all these years later I'm still aware that the driving force of my existence needs to be something other than me! That without the dynamic of God's Spirit, I'm up the creek without a paddle. And yet... so many times... I 'keep on, keep on, keep on, trying to go it alone.' Consider it a prayer for our world addressed through a memo to myself. I originally called the song "Miss World" ... which was meant to indicate that the beautiful 'world' in which we live was 'missing' it's connection to it's Creator and hence becoming messed up. However if you have to spend a whole lot of time explaining the title, before you get around to singing it.. 'give it a better title!'
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Just Look at You. So you think you're heading down the right road You're quite complacent going it alone You say you don't need anybody, and you're happy as you are I'm all right, I can manage, I don't need you anymore That's what you're saying. But just look at you, You're really in a state You're crying and youre hungry, There's dirt all over your face Do yourself a favor and think again You can't manage without Him, So why keep on, keep on, keep on, trying to go it alone. You've tried so many times before to live without I thought by now you would have realized that there' only one road Instead, you say I'm all right and I can look after myself You insist on having your own way, going it alone, You must be blind. Because just look at you, You're really in a state You're crying and youre hungry, There's dirt all over your face Do yourself a favor and think again You can't manage without Him, So why keep on, keep on, keep on, trying to go it alone. (Guitar) Well, I know that I have found the right road Oh, Oh my driver He keeps proving that's so, And what's more He's got room for oh so many more If only, you'll come knocking on His door. But just look at you, You're really in a state You're crying and youre hungry, There's dirt all over your face Do yourself a favor and think again You can't manage without Him, So why keep on, keep on, keep on, trying to go it alone. Oh...just look at you, You're really in a state You're crying and youre hungry, There's dirt all over your face Do yourself a favor and think again You can't manage without Him, So why keep on, keep on, keep on, trying to go it alone. Ah... Look at you.
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