I used to love listening to it from the day after Thanksgiving onward. Now, I don't want to listen but for maybe a week or two before. And then, mixed in with other styles too.
However, there are several songs that are just powerful and moving. Most of them are the older ones. Today I'm featuring my one and only carol. Mainly because I love the lyrics to this song, and because the artist's voice just sounds wonderful on this cold, foggy, rainy late Autumn day.
Song 80
"O Holy Night" by Emmy Rossum on her Carol of the Bells EP
The words in this song are just so moving. They never quite struck me until last year and they had me on my knees, as the lyrics declare.
The line, "and the soul felt its worth." I mean...think about that.Long lay the world In sin and error pining Till He appeared And the soul felt its worth A thrill of hope, The weary world rejoices For yonder breaks A new glorious morn
The soul....felt...it's worth.
That just floors me. I don't really know what else to say about this song. I know there are hundreds of versions, by dozens of different artists etc...but this version just gets me. Rossum's voice first struck me in Phantom of the Opera in 2004, and again when I found her solo album. Then a few years ago the Christmas album hit and I really enjoyed all of it. But when I listened to this version again last year it just hit me in the heart.
Enjoy!
grace, peace + hope
-Jesse
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