December 31 in the twelve days of Christmas marked in various places with celebrations of Hogmanay, New Year’s Eve, Saint (Pope) Sylvester. I’m staying up just so I can see 2021 gone. I know the song choices this year have been more idiosyncratic than usual. It’s been a singularly abnormal Christmas. Over The Rhine’s music …
Here It Is from Over The Rhine. The memory of Christmases past. The thankfulness of Christmas present. The expectation of Christmas yet to come. When they blow Gabriel’s horn, rip fiction from fact I wanna get caught in some radical act Of love and redemption, the sound of warm laughter Some true conversation with a …
New Redemption Song from Over The Rhine. If it depended on us to compose redemption’s song we’d never get it right. Instead we have a song that has been given to us, and our lives become its echo. Lord, we need a new redemption song Lord, we’ve tried, it just seems to come out wrong …
Bethlehem from Over The Rhine. The more normal people try to make Christmas look the less normal I feel. Oh little town of Bethlehem Be still tonight be still Cradled by a crescent moon Born under a star Sometimes there’s no difference Between a birthmark and a scar Oh little town of Bethlehem With your …
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