New Bob Bennet CD - Joy Deep as Sorrow

[SteveS]

My favorite singer/songwriter recently release a CD - Joy Deep as Sorrow.
Bob is a Christian recording artist. In my opinion his is the best. He writes amazing lyrics, his fingerstyle guitar playing is top notch and his voice is wonderful. Here is a review by Steve Bell.

You can buy it on his site, iTunes and Cd baby


Joy Deep as Sorrow / Bob Bennett

I want good to come after me
Half as relentlessly as trouble does… like a curse
I want health to protect me
Invade and infect me like disease does… but in reverse
I want sweetness and light to keep me up all night
Happy hours passing without a sleep
As sharp as a knife,I want love in this life
To cut me fast…cut me deep
I’d like to see good fortune paint a target on my back
I want laughter to stage a surprise attack

One fine day
Maybe two or three in a row
Blessings lined up
Waiting to become status quo
I don’t want to be unfaithful
But I really want to know
Is there a joy deep as sorrow?

The story is told from the days of old
About the sad fate of humankind
How at some prenatal stage or accountable age
We’re all hell-bent in heart and mind
We use to call it sin but now we’re not so sure
Seems when everybody’s God then there’s no need for a cure… or…

Joy deep as sorrow
Pleasure as potent as pain
Stable as an earthquake
Harmless as a hurricane
Inmates freed from the asylum
At long last everybody driven sane
By a joy deep as sorrow

What if ecstasy reinvented me
So little children would point and smile
What if misery were like a lottery
All my losing tickets in a pile
An avalanche of platitudes better left unsaid
When that which does not kill me makes me wish that I was dead
Every day that I am walking it’s always something new
I want to step in a pile of good
and leave it on my shoe…