Real Whirlwind, LLC
Real Whirlwind, LLC
  • Home
  • Music
  • Science
  • News
  • Library
  • More
    • Home
    • Music
    • Science
    • News
    • Library

  • Home
  • Music
  • Science
  • News
  • Library

A New Home

When the Bill Comes Due (2011)

YouTube demo


Well it won't be fun

And it won't feel fine

And there won't be few

When the bill comes due

When the bill comes due


You can gasp for air

But there's nothing there

For words to do

When the bill comes due

When the bill comes due


You can grab your stash

And your pile of cash

But they're both no use

When the bill comes due

When the bill comes due


And you won't get far

With your credit card

'Cause it won't go through

When the bill comes due

When the bill comes due


Well there's just one Name

That can quench the flame

Which erupts in blue

When the bill comes due

When the bill comes due


He's the only One

Who has overcome

To make all things new

When the bill comes due

When the bill comes due


So if you confess

That you're in a mess

He will vouch for you

When the bill comes due

When the bill comes due


Jesus paid the price

With His precious life

And His coin is true

When the bill comes due

When the bill comes due


You'll behold His face

And His shining grace

Will envelope you

When the bill comes due 

Be Gone (2011)

Be gone

The hour has touched the dawn

And I must carry on

To be on my way


Today

And if You should care to pray

It would reach me in that way

And would heal my heart


And start

To pry the years apart

Which have bound me here so hard

In this broken place


I face

All the strange and wondrous ways

You have blessed me with Your grace

Showered down from high


I try

As I fight this urge to cry

Choking on a last goodbye

I can almost hear


You near

As You wipe away the tear

And You banish all my fear

I am newly made


I wait

But I know it's not too late

To live out this holy fate

In the great beyond


Be gone 

How Ancient (2012)

How ancient

From the fifth day

Heron's wings beating the air

Gliding away

Impatient

Filled with dismay

This broken heart beats alone

Too torn to pray

How ancient all of this seems

Yet how new, haunting my dreams

And with every revelation

There is everlasting truth


Temptation

Taunts in this place

Here in this cavernous tomb

Leaving no trace

Salvation

Offered with grace

Shattering all of this gloom

Filling all space

How ancient all of this seems

Yet how new, haunting my dreams

And with every revelation

There is everlasting truth


Then Jesus

Enters our sphere

Comforting me in my grief

Drawing me near

He pleases

Whispers I hear

Banishing my every care

Whom shall I fear?

How ancient all of this seems

Yet how new, haunting my dreams

And with every revelation

There is everlasting truth


Perfection

Triune and true

Chaos is showered with light

Darkness shot through

Election

Of me and you

Doctrine beyond all our thought

Mysteries new

Mysteries new

Mysteries new 

Wonderfully Made (2012)

YouTube Demo of song


I will give thanks to Thee

For I am fearfully

And wonderfully made

I will give thanks to Thee

For I am fearfully

And wonderfully made


You formed my hidden frame

There in my mother's womb

Before I heard my name

You wove me on Your loom

I will give thanks to Thee

For I am fearfully

And wonderfully made

I will give thanks to Thee

For I am fearfully

And wonderfully made


Wonderful are Thy works

Treasured within my heart

Even these aches and hurts

In a body that's torn apart

I will give thanks to Thee

For I am fearfully

And wonderfully made

I will give thanks to Thee

For I am fearfully

And wonderfully made


A temple to house Thy Spirit

Made to be like Thy Son

Oh that we all would hear it

And live as if we were one

We will give thanks to Thee

For we are fearfully

And wonderfully made

We will give thanks to Thee

For we are fearfully

And wonderfully made


One day the trump shall sound

And these bodies will be for naught

But until that glory's found

Let's take care of what we've got

We will give thanks to Thee

For we are fearfully

And wonderfully made

We will give thanks to Thee

For we are fearfully

And wonderfully made 

Hide Not Thy Face from Me (2012)

YouTube demo of song


Hide not Thy face from me

I'm as lonesome as can be

Though all other souls may flee

Hide not Thy face from me


Lord, I depend on You

No one else can pull me through

Within You all things I can do

Lord, I depend on You


Lift me when I am down

When my sin is all around

Crushing me into the ground

Lift me when I am down


Hear, Lord, when I cry out

And my heart is filled with doubt

Though my fears within me shout

Hear, Lord, when I cry out


Hide not Thy face from me

There's no other God but Thee

Break these bonds and set me free

Hide not Thy face from me

Hide not Thy face from me 

My New Home (2014)

Here I am, all on my own

I'm longing for, my new home

Where these eyes, will shed no tears

And this heart, will feel no fears

Where it is, I don't know

If I did, I'd surely go

But as it is, my heart just aches

For my new home


I am loved, it is true

With no excuse, for feeling blue

But this world, can box me in

It steals my joy, reveals my sin

How it ends, I don't know

But when it does, I'll surely go

But until then, my heart just aches

For my new home


I have dreamed, of standing there

In that crisp, refreshing air

No more doubt, and no more night

As we bask, engulfed in light

When He comes, we don't know

But when He does, we'll surely go

But while we're here, our hearts just ache

For our new home 

Commentary

  

This picture is from the new home that Livvy I inhabited in 2014. I bought this house shortly after Livvy (then 11 years old) sat me down at dinner and announced: “I want you to buy a house, I want to get a dog, and I want to go to Burroughs [for 7th grade].” I love her, so I set about making all those things happen. The song My New Home obviously had its origins in the first of these requests, though it quickly morphs to an eternal perspective.


As for the other songs in this set, the one that has the most interesting back-story is Wonderfully Made, which was written in a couple of days immediately after a challenge issued by my then pastor, Dan Doriani (STL's Central Pres), who asked whether any of the song-writers in the congregation could produce a song that spoke of the miraculous work of God in creating the intricacies of our human bodies. This song was the result. Alas, Dan never used it, choosing instead some new words that an assistant pastor matched to an existing hymn. Oh, well ….

Downloads

for personal use only

Be-Gone (mp3)Download
Be-Gone (pdf)Download
How-Ancient (mp3)Download
How-Ancient (pdf)Download
Hide-Not-Thy-Face-from-Me (mp3)Download
Hide-Not-Thy-Face-From-Me (pdf)Download
My-New-Home (mp3)Download
My-New-Home (pdf)Download
When-the-Bill-Comes-Due (mp3)Download
When-the-Bill-Comes-Due (pdf)Download
Wonderfully-Made (mp3)Download
Wonderfully-Made (pdf)Download

Copyright © 2025 Real Whirlwind, LLC - All Rights Reserved.

Powered by