The new album from Faithless arrived today from cd-wow and it is simply excellent. The music is fantastic, all the songs are written in the same key (in case you think I am talented I read that off the back of the cd notes) and the lyrics exceptional. I know very little about how music works, but even I can hear how this gives a more melodic feel to the album.

You know how many people see God in creation, and still others sense or hear the call of God through nature? I have wondered for some time whether God, in a similar way, is trying to talk to the world, and maybe even his church, through art and music. Yes, maybe even art and music created by people who do not acknowledge God. God did, afterall, give all of us our creative talents whether we believe in him or not! Everyone is created in God’s image and so it follows that every person on this planet must have some creative characteristics of the creative God.

A number of lyrics have grabbed out at me on this album, although 6 lines in particular have jumped at me. I have had the album in my posession for only one day and it has been played virtually continuosly without anyone complaining in the office. The same words have grabbed me. They are taken from a track ‘I want more’:

More oneness, less categories

Open hearts, no strategies

Decision based upon faith and not fear

People who live right now and right here

I wanna wisdom than wise men revere

I want more

Could that be God talking to his church in the 21st Century? They have been going around my small brain over and over and I have come to the conclusion … I want more! Could this be what it means to find the sacred in the everyday?

There are other great, thought provoking lyrics, such as in ‘Love Lives on my Street’: Love is you, love is me, love is love is us, love is free

I am guessing you have all heard Weapons of Mass destruction. If you have not then you should buy the cd and listen to them for yourselves. You can find samples of the tracks at the Faithless website too.