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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Internal Criminal is one of those songs that took me years to write. When my little sister first saw the lyrics in the first stanza, she thought it should be a fast song. I couldn’t make it one, though. I think my pulse is slower than most folks’.
I’ve tried to view myself Biblically in this song [Lonely Moses] – as a hard-hearted criminal, a prayerless saint, an unfaithful wife. Note: This is not a song to record at a 6:30 a.m. concert, but I did it anyway.
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Download: http://justinbrock.com/audio/songs/Lonely-Moses-final.mp3
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I started writing this song my last semester at Belhaven, then finished it in the summer of 1999 when I was living in Lafayette, LA. As far as I can remember, there wasn’t anything in particular that inspired its writing. It is pretty-dang Reformed, as far as songs about this type of thing go.
