RUMORS

LYRICS

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VERSE 1

A
You’ve been talking
D
To your friends, you never thought I’d
E        D
Hear the things you’d
A
Say
A
Pretending if we
D
Never me that You would have
E        D
A better life
A
Today
D
You say there’s not a single joy
A
you never trade to change
D
And there’s not a single tear that was ever worth
E
its pain and you say
D A
why would you want this love we
E
have? And you muse
D A
I’m such a fool
E
To not know that

CHORUS

Well
A
Many a tear have i 
D 
Shed for you
E
And many a hope have I clung to
D
And now it appears
A
That the end is a date
D E
We simply cannot just avoid

VERSE 2

A
You’ve been up
D
Inside your head, you didn’t think I’d
E        D
catch your distant
A
gaze
A
Making lots of 
D
Other plans anything you can
E        D
To stay
A
away
D A
And why would you trade the love you
E
have
D A
And aren’t you the fool
E
To lie about that

A D E

BRIDGE

A
Remember my name
D                   E
When you taste this feast you’ve laid
D A
Cause fools rush the day
D
When they sleep in 
E
Beds they’ve made
A
Remember my name
D       E
When you taste this feast you’ve laid
A
Remember my name
D
When you beat upon 
E
That grave

CHORUS

Well
A
Many a tear have i 
D 
Shed for you
E
And many a hope have I clung to
D
And now it appears
A
That the end is a date
D E
We simply cannot just avoid
A
Many a tear have i 
D 
Shed for you
E
And many a hope have I clung to
D
And now we are here
A
and the end is a fate
D E
you simply will not just avoid

ABOUT THE MUSIC

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Rumors is the first song on the album Reject. Partly, this is because it was the song that inspired the writing of the Album. The song came from a conversation that I overheard at the local pub. It was a group of three friends chatting and one of them was relating the story of how he had deconstructed his faith. He claimed that it was the best thing for him and that he had no regrets. As I listened to his reasoning, it was apparent to me that he hadn’t really known God at all.

As I pondered this fact, coupled with the self-sacrifice in the Jesus narrative, I wondered what God would say had he overheard, in the human sense, these friends talking about him and his sacrifices. After all that Christ had done and given up, to hear his former love relegate their relationship to a quirky note in history, made me very sad.

And so it was that Rumors was born. This first song sets the stage for an emotional exploration of the sad God, who died for a person that truly doesn’t reciprocate. When speaking of the God of the Bible, his multi facets cannot be understated, but an area that I feel is rarely explored is the hurt and pain he must feel at his rejection. This song serves as the introduction to the sad and lonely God.