Single · 16 de julho de 2021
Hope Alive
Written for a friend who had lost almost everything, in the middle of a pandemic, and released as dance music.
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A históriaA história desta canção está em inglês.1 Peter 1:3Psalm 71:14Psalm 34:8Numbers 23:192 Corinthians 1:20
Five months after releasing a seven-minute orchestral record, Yemi put out a two-minute-fifty dance track. The distance between them is the whole point of this catalogue, and Hope Alive is the clearest example of it: same subject, opposite room.
It was written for a specific person (a friend who, in his words, had seemingly lost everything) and out of a wider question about what hope is supposed to mean when a situation offers no evidence for it.
The timing is not incidental. It arrived in the summer of 2021, and he is direct about the doubt the preceding eighteen months had produced in people he knew.
In every lifeless situation that I have faced, one thing seems to be common: God almost always comes through.Yemi Alafifuni
The obvious response to that would have been a lament. He made a summer anthem instead, with Ian Copeland Green producing, and put the argument in the tempo rather than the lyric: not a song about waiting for hope, a song you cannot easily sit still through.
There is one more thing the lyric does, and it is easy to miss because of how cheerful the record is. The song never says I. From the wall to the floor, you just can’t take no more. It is addressed to somebody else from the first line to the last. The only first person in it is plural: as we wait, we believe it, we receive it. Written for one person who had lost almost everything, it never once turns to talk about the writer.
God has never failed us and He won’t start now. He is working, and His every word is yes and amen.From the release note, 2 Corinthians 1:20
The bridge is where it plants its feet. If God said it, he will do it, we believe it, that settles it. That is Numbers 23:19 compressed to nine words, and then repeated until it stops sounding like an argument and starts sounding like a decision. Taste and see the Lord is great is Psalm 34:8; eyes will see, ears will hear is Isaiah 35.
It was nominated for Song of the Year (Electronic / Dance) at the StepFWD Awards 2022, and went to fourteenth on iTunes Finland. The second fact becomes interesting when you notice how much of his listening happens in places he has never played.
Letra
From the wall To the floor You just can’t take no more Feels like all hope is gone
He’ll fight your battle Right your wrong He’d guide you through the storm You are never alone
Chorus
If you trust If you hold If you give Him all your heart He’s never late
Through the night He’s your light He’s your guiding light Hope is alive
So ooo… Hope alive Come alive Hope alive
Verse 2
Eyes will see Ears will hear Don’t you worry have no fear God has done it before
Worship Him As we wait Taste and see The Lord is great He will do it again
Bridge
If God said it He will do it We believe it That settles it
If God said it He will do it We receive it That settles it
That settles it That settles it That settles it That settles it
So ooo… Hope alive Come alive Hope alive
Ficha técnica
- Composição
- Yemi Alafifuni
- Produção
- Ian Copeland Green
- Lançamento
- 16 de julho de 2021
- Duração
- 2:52
- ISRC
- TCAFP2156800
- Selo
- Yemi Alafifuni · lançamento independente
- Reconhecimento
- Nominated for Song of the Year (Electronic / Dance), StepFWD Awards 2022#14, iTunes Finland Christian & Gospel
- Versões
- Hope AliveInstrumental · Grátis, junto com o MP3
Escrituras
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,”
1 Peter 1:3
“But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.”
Psalm 71:14
“O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.”
Psalm 34:8
“God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?”
Numbers 23:19
“For all the promises of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us.”
2 Corinthians 1:20
Scripture quotations are from The Authorized (King James) Version. Rights in the Authorized Version in the United Kingdom are vested in the Crown. Reproduced by permission of the Crown's patentee, Cambridge University Press.
