{"id":4998,"date":"2020-07-01T20:49:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T20:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/?p=4998"},"modified":"2020-10-04T14:03:05","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T14:03:05","slug":"349-the-song-i-cant-resist-your-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/349-the-song-i-cant-resist-your-love\/","title":{"rendered":"#349: The Song “I Can’t Resist Your Love”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is mark Joseph “young”<\/i> blog entry #349, on the subject of The Song “I Can’t Resist Your Love”<\/i>.<\/p>\n

This fifteenth song on our list was started by my wife.  It has to have been 1979 or 1980, as I remember her sitting in the dining room of the apartment we had in Pennsville working on it.  She was stuck for a chord and asked for help, and suddenly I was contributing words and music.  She didn’t like all my contributions, and we still argue about who wrote what, but ultimately we were pleased with the outcome.  I listed this the number twenty song on my list, and although there are a few places where I didn’t get the vocals exactly right (and embarrassingly it is the tenor–my part–that has the mistakes) I put it number 11 on performance\/recording quality, probably largely for the vocals.  Tristan ranked it tied for fifteen.  (The ranking system is explained in connection with the first song, linked below.)<\/p>\n

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It was always envisioned with at least four vocals, which is what is used here, a guitar providing a fifth at the end.  We used this as our closing song in TerraNova<\/i>, where we had five vocals, but I knew I wasn’t going to be able to sing the soprano (which was an added part anyway, as Debbie Kregger was not an original member).  It is a rock anthem, with the intention that the ending chorus would keep repeating more than it does in the recording, but it’s a long song with two instrumental verses (one of them done with contrapuntal vocals) and two bridges, and for the recording I thought it was long enough with four choruses.  (It is a short chorus.)<\/p>\n

My wife gets full credit for the concept, that the world is very alluring, but ultimately the love of Christ outpulls anything offered elsewhere.  She also gets credit for the truly unique rhyme and meter scheme on on the verses.<\/p>\n

The song is here<\/a>.  It is again a wav file, and so a large download, but I think worth it.<\/p>\n

I Can’t Resist Your Love<\/i><\/b><\/font>.<\/p>\n

So here are the words:<\/p>\n

I can’t resist Your love,
\nI can’t resist Your love,
\nI can’t resist, I can’t resist Your love.<\/p>\n

So many times I see
\nThe world is rushing by me,
\nAnd everything I see
\nLooks so good.
\nI only want a part–
\nI feel it tug on my heart,
\nAnd that is when I start
\nTo wish I could,<\/p>\n

But I can’t resist Your love,
\nI can’t resist Your love,
\nI can’t resist, I can’t resist Your love.<\/p>\n

People are getting high,
\nAnd life is passing me by,
\nAnd so I wonder why
\nYou call my name.
\nI’d like to be a star
\nAnd drive a fancy sports car,
\nBut I know Who You are
\nAnd why you came,<\/p>\n

And I can’t resist Your love,
\nI can’t resist Your love,
\nI can’t resist, I can’t resist Your love.<\/p>\n

And I can’t resist Your love,
\nI can’t resist Your love,
\nI can’t resist, I can’t resist Your love.<\/p>\n

I don’t need you for your money:
\nI will serve you without pay.
\n‘Though you may think it sounds funny,
\nI just wanna hear you say,<\/p>\n

“Welcome home thou good and faithful servant;
\nOver few things you have proven true.
\nI will make you ruler over many.
\nEnter in the joy I have for you.”<\/p>\n

Now when I look around
\nI see the joy that I’ve found
\nWhile all the world is bound
\nIn chains of sin.
\nThey need to turn to You–
\nIf they could see what You’d do,
\nThen they would know You’re true,
\nAnd let you in.<\/p>\n

How I wish that they could hear me
\nTelling them You are the way.
\nIf I let Your Spirit steer me,
\nOne day I will hear You say,<\/p>\n

“Welcome home thou good and faithful servant;
\nOver few things you have proven true.
\nI will make you ruler over many.
\nEnter in the joy I have for you.”<\/p>\n

I thought that I was free,
\nBut You reached out and drew me,
\nAnd though I tried to flee, where could I go?
\nI couldn’t resist Your love,
\nThe kind of stuff I dream of.
\nI want you far above
\nAll things I know.<\/p>\n

And I can’t resist Your love,
\nI can’t resist Your love,
\nI can’t resist, I can’t resist Your love.
\nI can’t resist Your love,
\nI can’t resist Your love,
\nI can’t resist, I can’t resist Your love.
\nI can’t resist Your love,
\nI can’t resist Your love,
\nI can’t resist, I can’t resist Your love.
\nI can’t resist Your love,
\nI can’t resist Your love,
\nI can’t resist, I can’t resist Your love.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I can only hope you benefit from the song in some way.  I will continue with additional songs in the future.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

*****<\/p>\n

Previous web log song posts:<\/p>\n

#301:  The Song “Holocaust”<\/a><\/i> | #307:  The Song “Time Bomb”<\/a><\/i> | #311:  The Song “Passing Through the Portal”<\/a><\/i> | #314:  The Song “Walkin’ In the Woods”<\/a><\/i> | #317:  The Song “That’s When I’ll Believe”<\/a><\/i> | #320:  The Song “Free”<\/a><\/i> | #322:  The Song “Voices”<\/a><\/i> | #326:  The Song “Mountain, Mountain”<\/a><\/i> | #328:  The Song “Still Small Voice”<\/i><\/a> | #334:  The Song “Convinced”<\/a><\/i> | #337:  The Song “Selfish Love”<\/a><\/i> | #340:  The Song “A Man Like Paul”<\/a><\/i> | #341:  The Song “Joined Together”<\/a><\/i> | #346:  The Song “If We Don’t Tell Them”<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n

Next Song:<\/i>  I Use to Think<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is mark Joseph “young” blog entry #349, on the subject of The Song “I Can’t Resist Your Love”. This fifteenth song on our list was started by my wife.  It has to have been 1979 or 1980, as I remember her sitting in the dining room of the apartment we had in Pennsville working … Continue reading #349: The Song “I Can’t Resist Your Love”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,42],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-4998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-and-theology","category-music","tag-ministry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4998"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5053,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4998\/revisions\/5053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mjyoung.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}