Easter Music 4: Easter Sunday!

Easter Day, and I'm listening to Morrisey's 'You Have Killed Me'

Christ has risen! The tomb is empty, and Jesus is out and about meeting people!

"As I live and breathe, you have killed me... yet I walk around, somehow"

(Try not to be put off by the strange 70's Italian TV pastiche video)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjVsdBxAzhM

Easter Music 3: Saturday

Easter Saturday, and I'm listening to Damien Rice's 'Cold Water'.

For his followers it was a time of confusion, lostness and questioning. Christ was dead - what now? What did it all mean? They didn't realise that Sunday was coming....

"Lord, can you hear me now?"
The response: (not clear on this recording)
"Don’t you know I love you/And I always have/ Hallelujah/ Will you come with me?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbIKsUybL2k&feature=related

Easter Music 2: Good Friday

Good Friday, and I'm listening to Duke Special's 'Song of the Hours', which he wrote for a character in Brecht's play 'Mother Courage and her Children'.

Today Christians remember Jesus' death on the cross, and this song is a simple but powerful exploration of that day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxP78rHxmjQ

Easter Music 1: Maundy Thursday

Maundy Thursday, and I'm listening to Eagle Eye Cherry's 'Save Tonight'.

Today Christians remember Jesus sharing a final meal with his friends, reminding them that he was going to suffer, and sharing bread & wine, explaining they were symbols of his body and blood. Then he prayed in the garden and knew he had to go on, though he wished it weren't so...

Hear the track here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41jKnJnNtho&feature=fvst