I read a article about dopamine, a few days after writing this song, when I played this song again, it dawned on me how this song was written because I have such a low level of dopamine and thus find this world very meaningless and unfulling.
Progressive finger-style guitar, with emotional melodies and raw, honest lyrics.
I invite you to amble through my world of raw, emotional and honest song writing.
I hope it might strike a chord in you and be a little more like a flower among the thorns of unsigned amateurs here on SoundClick. Though I indeed am a unsigned amateur myself.
Story behind the song
I read a article about dopamine, a few days after writing this song, when I played this song again, it dawned on me how this song was written because I have such a low level of dopamine and thus find this world very meaningless and unfulling.
Lyrics
Dopamine –John Martindale
What I long for cannot be found in the girl of my dreams
This desire cannot be obtained in the most interesting education
This emptiness could not be filled with all the riches of the world
Not even wisdom and understanding, and insight in God’s Word
I feel I am loss, this is no where I can go that will satisfy
While stuck in this body with fatigue and apathy and sin haunting
O Lord Is it true, am I long for You? I Know I am sick of religion
O Lord it is true, I am wanting more, all I see is vanity
They call it mysticism—I call it intimacy
They call it mysticism—I call it knowing You
What I long for is to be able to tremble at your greatness and You Word
To be overwhelmed by you beauty, wisdom and awesome love
To delight in you heart, and know Your mind and be your willing humble slave
So I my soak up your life while falling madly in love with You
But what am I doing, I am just wasting time,
Wishing it would all come to me, while I sit in my apathy
With the excuse that my soul is withered
From this wilderness and season that will not leave
O Lord Is it true, am I long for You? I Know I am sick of religion
O Lord it is true, I am wanting more, all I see is vanity
When I look within I see I have been unwilling to fight
I don’t know how to change, God make things right!
Change my heart and mind, give me the will to strive
Change the state of my being so I can fight
One day you will come for me and take me where You are
I will be transformed in a twinkling of an eye, and I will see your face
I will behold your beauty, overcome by Your love
I will be undone by your glory, for every your humble slave
O Lord it is true, I am longing for you, You are my only hope
It is the Anchor to my soul and you will make it reality
