Justin Brock | Music

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I finally had a somewhat successful night of recording. This new ruined hymn sounds somewhat less rough and unpolished than usual. There are a few seconds of nothing at the beginning that I was too lazy to cut out.
Download: O Thou That Hear’st When Sinners Cry
Also, here are the lyrics http://justinbrock.com/music/hymns/ruined-hymn-o-thou-that-hearst-when-sinners-cry. The audio on that [...]

Bullfight is my newest song. I wrote it last night over the course of 30 minutes or so. It felt more like discovery or archeology than creativity. Haven’t learned how to play it yet, but I’ll post a rough podcast track once I have one.
Bullfight
i was fine till you let that curtain down
now i’m blind [...]

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“Come Around” is a song I wrote in 1999. I was living in Louisiana at the time and lonelier than anyone should be. Now, ten years later, I hear in it the foolish commitments of infatuation and naive love – the immature, idolatrous me of my youth.

But, you know, I still like the song even if I do have issues with the guy who wrote it.

I’m just playing around with the effects in this track. This song is from my unfinished album – Locust Years.

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I wrote How You Love Me when I was 18 – a freshman at Belhaven College. I recorded it late Saturday night. Here are the lyrics below:

How You Love Me
Why does my heart turn to stone?
Why do I turn my back on you?
Why am I numb? Look at what [...]