Our gift to you.
“Sleep Peacefully,” a song written by Rheanna Downey and myself, is once again available for free download as a Christmas gift to you. Please visit gayle’s myspace to download the song. (Read on …)
Blindness
There are many reasons why it’s important to have dating relationships in the context of community. Some people tend to withdraw when they start dating. I never really thought of myself as one of them… (Read on …)
Cowley Road
Two weeks ago now (wow! already?) I took a trip to LA to play a show. I was feeling melancholy–driving past my old apartments, haunts, etc.–and down about a friendship that died for reasons that don’t make sense to me. I started feeling homesick for my flat in Oxford. (Alright, I’m always homesick for it, but was especially homesick for it as I drove around Azusa). Sometimes I think places miss me. I spend so much time alone that I often get more attached to the place than the people in it.
I was driving along feeling frustrated about being so misunderstood by this person that I let my hopes rally around… and wrote this song about England.
Strange
(c) GLS 2007
“What if you could see inside my head?
See what swings from light posts, see the colours of the paths I tread..
What if you could hear the things I’ve heard?
Listen to my memories and make sense of every word…
Love, love, love…?
“Self-Perceptions and Questions about the World”
(c) 2006 Gayle Skidmore
“Can’t sate my desire for decadence
I’m caught in the mire of common sense
And God has got me in the box that it got free from
“Understand”
(c) 2007 GLS
“I’ve been sung this song before
By a different heart
I know the lyrics all too well
And I hated every one of them from the start
Hymn
Written August 2006 (c) 2007 GLS
When the night falls and I’ve lost my way
And my bones ache with this slow decay
Then you stir my soul with your sweet address
I will tell the world of your faithfulness