Joseph Smith Jr.

In honor of Joseph Smith, and somehow my father, I would like to post something in memoory of them and the legacy they left. I was deeply touched the first time I listened to the Nashvilee tribute to Joseph Smith, right after my dad's funeral. Two songs that I really like on there I will post here. One is called The Rising, the other is called Candles. Joseph Smith, as most of us know was quite charismatic, went through more than any other Latter-Day Prophet, and was instrumental in Restoring the fulness of the Gosepel. Through my dad I learned what a man is, and I learned that Joseph was quite the man.

THE RISING

Written by Jason Deere

I told my mother what troubled my heart
I saw the worry as she took me in her arms
I told the preacher, and he looked at me
And I saw the rising that never let me be

Oh the rising
(The boy, the faith, the prayers, the hate)
From weak things the great things
Are rising, rising
(The love, the fear, the fire, the tears)
The persecution, the spirit, the peace

The spirit of God like a fire it spread
Calling the nations put a price upon our heads
Running through darkness and running to light
Praying on our knees for one more day every night

Amid the rising
(The boy, the faith, the prayers, the hate)
From weak things the great things
Are rising, rising
(The love, the fear, the fire, the tears)
The persecution, the spirit, the peace

I don’t know all the answers but I do my best
To live up to the rising that won’t let me rest

Oh the rising…

WB Music Corp (ASCAP)



CANDLES

Written by Jason Deere

Well I’ve heard the people talking
In the fields and in the stores
They say a man is claiming visions
And they don’t want him ‘round here no more
And with questions in my heart
I walked home late last night
And in front of his old farm house
Something caught my eye

I saw a candle burning brightly
Up in his window late last night
And in my heart it gripped me tightly
And something said son what he’s doing’s right
I saw a candle burning bright

Well a vigil got together
And they kicked in his front door
As they drug him on to the back porch
I wondered what all this was for
And I watched him wrench in pain
As the tar burned in his flesh
While a preacher held a candle
Dripping wax upon his chest

I saw a candle burning brightly
Up in his window late last night
And in my heart it gripped me tightly
And something said son what he’s doing’s right
I saw a candle burning bright

Well this morning I was walking
Leaves blowing down that old dirt road
And those feelings just kept stirring deep within my soul
On my lips a silent whisper
Lord please tell me what is right
And then the Spirit danced within me
Like the soft candle light

And I saw a candle burning brightly
Up in his window late last night
And in my heart it gripped me tightly
And something said son what he’s doing’s right
I saw a candle burning bright
And I saw the light

RoadtoNauvoo (ASCAP)

(Playlist.com is very retarded and not user friendly. You have to jump through hoops just to attempt to upload any songs. In the end, posting the audio to these songs proved to be a failure...sorry).