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Saved in Seattle

Cold Blows the Wind (December 26, 1980)

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Cold blows the wind tall stand the trees

Let it begin as I fall to my knees

God, how could I ever change what I feel

How will I know when her love becomes real

You seem to know what the world's going to do

Tell me right now if her love isn't true


When I'm alone and I see where you are

That's when I know that we've come pretty far

You're in control of what you're going to be

You have become someone special to me

What could I do to become something more

Than all your friends that you let through the door

But you don't let them know what you're really about

And I know that you know but there must be some doubt

In your mind but I know you'll be mine


Cold blows the wind tall stand the trees

Let it begin as I fall to my knees

God, how your world has impressed me with time

Now I can see what you've blessed to be mine

What could I do to be sure who it is

What will it take to erase the mistakes

That you made when you faked now all you can do

Is be true and I know we could break any rule

If you knew what I knew and I do 

First and Last (1981)

I’m the first to admit that I’ve been lying

And the last one to know that you’ve been crying

And the first one to go when the sun start’s shining

It’s coming around the bend


Nobody knows where I must travel

And God only knows it’s been such a hassle

But I suppose that it’s only natural

That I would feel this way

Come on baby don’t you feel the fusion?

Coming round amidst all this confusion

It’s coming closer every day

Come on baby don’t you hear the laughter

You should be happy now forever after

It’s coming closer every day


When it began I was lost in the ecstacy

And now I’m a man but it’s still got the best of me

And what can I do when my hope and my truth are

Both wrapped up in you?

Come on baby don’t you feel the fusion?

Coming round amidst all this confusion

It’s coming closer every day

Come on baby don’t you hear the laughter

You should be happy now forever after

It’s coming closer every day 

Arise and Awaken (1981)

Arise and awaken!

The morning is breaking

Asleep in your bedroom

You dream of the red moon

Uncover your eyes and see

You already know it’s me


Ablaze with desire

You gaze at the fire

Entrapped by emotion you balk at the notion

Of lovers and friends gone by

A series of vacant sighs


Darling you know that I love you

And I’ll always be there at your side

Everything that He gave me I gladly give unto you

If only you would be true


Afraid of the future

You’ve prayed as it suits you

Asleep on the dance floor

You lapse into metaphors

Interpret the mystery

And answer your inner dreams


How can I show you the answer?

Who can accept what I say?

When nobody cares anyway

Jerusalem if you could hear me if you could open your eyes

Maybe you’d realize


Arise and awaken!

It’s there for the taking

Rejoice and be thankful

It’s your chance to be grateful

I’m gratefully dead and gone

The ages are moving on

Babylon (1981)

Why do the nations quake at your feet?

America smiles as she turns up the heat

“I am no widow,” she says in her heart

So rudely awakened as the nightmare starts

And the military leaders babble on

As a dark cloud gathers over Babylon


“Who is this enemy we can't perceive?”

The generals wonder as they scheme and deceive

“We have the weapons to banish all life

From this rotating sphere in the sun's waning light”

And the military leaders babble on

As a dark cloud gathers over Babylon


Try while you can to touch with your heart

What is numb to your hands

Gaze at the sky and see with your mind

What is blind to your eyes


“Where is the orchard I sowed in this place?

I nurtured and cared for this nomadic race

Many have gone to chase after the wind

But the soil was firm and a few anew will begin”

And the military leaders babble on

As a dark cloud gathers over Babylon

I'm Missing You (1982)

I'm missing you in the morning light

I can not see the day seems night

I call your name but the echo falls

And silence reigns in these empty halls

I'm missing you

I'm missing you

I'm missing you


I wonder why you have left me here

With no one there to hold me near

I catch her eyes but she turns away

To burn some time from her busy day

I'm missing you

I'm missing you

I'm missing you

I’m … 


You walk along in a darkened cloud

As if you're clothed in a sackcloth shroud

You claim to know where you'll find your truth

But your salty tears they betray your youth

I'm missing you

I'm missing you

I'm missing you

I’m … 


I'd love to share what is in my heart

We'd find love there and we'd never part

But who can say what is meant to be?

My Lord, you know what is best for me

I'm missing you

I'm missing you

I'm missing you

I’m … 

My Lord (1982)

My Lord, please don't let me stray from the path

“OK, just remember that I'm coming back

And I'll see what you're doing during the night

Who among you can hide when I shine my light?”


I know cause you told me so long long ago

These words they come to me form somewhere below

But my lord, you can lift me right out of this grave

So come along there is nobody else who can save


My Lord, is there nobody else who can see

All the love that you graciously gave unto me?

Is there no one to marvel at what you can do?

Let my lips never cease to proclaim I love you

In a world where confusion and doubt cloud the sky

You're a beacon of truth which has shined in my eye

Though the battle is fierce I'll emerge at the end

And this victory song will be heard by all men

Commentary

I spent Christmas 1980 with my family in Spokane and returned to Seattle on the morning of December 26, eager to get back to my schoolwork. I went for a long run that day and something miraculous happened to me. When I got home I had an uncontrollable urge to find the copy of the New Testament that a Spokane neighbor had given to me as a high school graduation present, which I had never opened but I also knew was still in my possession. I devoured the entire book, convinced that every word was true. I wrote Cold Blows the Wind that very same day.


The following months were difficult, as I clumsily “witnessed” to my various family members, who became convinced that I must have a brain tumor or some other malady to have caused me to believe that the Bible could possibly be true. In March 1981, my Dad even arranged to have me detained in a hospital mental health facility for ten days, as they poked and prodded and scanned in vain to find a medical cause for what had happened to me. Alas (for my Dad), I was medically well – just a “Crazy Christian”!


Anyhow, the years of being the only Christian within my family of origin created various forms of relational stress that became the inspiration for more music. Nearly all of my songs began to have at least some mention of God and my new faith, but I also lived with a continuing sense of fear about sharing my faith with others, given what had happened to me in my first months as a new believer.

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