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The power of music is in the mood and emotion that it sets in us. It has the power to change us - to make us smile on a bad day, to instill peace in us when the world is falling apart, the power to make us dance and forget our troubles, or inversely to embrace our anger or let us wander among our miseries. We identify songs with emotions, with people, and with places. This song doesn’t have strong ties to any of these emotions… yet.

Alexi Murdoch’s Orange Sky, is a simple and beautiful song about hardship and hope. “WellI had a dream I, stood beneath an orange sky… with my brother standing by” Juxtaposing the imagery of an orange sky - the color of fire, and the color of battles written across the clouds - with the image of a “brother” or a “sister” standing next to him, Murdoch paints a picture of unity against a backdrop of conflict.

“And you know sister my hearts been broken. Sometimes, sometimes my mind is too strong to carry on. Too strong to carry on.” Sometimes our minds take over for our hearts, for when we are wronged it is rarely our minds that suffer. Our hearts are the ones that bare our scars, ceding more and more territory to our minds every time we are cheated, fooled, or swindled - if we let it.

“When I am alone, when I’ve thrown off the weight of this crazy stone, when I’ve lost all care for the things I own, that’s when I miss you, you who are my home. You, who are my home.” - It’s only when we overcome our hardships (perhaps accepting that their will always be hardships), when we forget about our materialism, that’s when we realize what life is about - each other. When we are not distracted by our job, entertainment, or material things, then we can’t help but remember how important people are.

“Here is what I know, in your love, my salvation lies.” It’s in the love of others that we will find our purpose and our destinies.

All this from a simple song found in a movie trailer earlier this week. Find the song in this week’s podcast - Feb. 5, 2007

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