Out of the archive from about 15 or so years ago, I pulled out and dusted off these lyrics. I added a couple of verses to it, and here's the result.
The Song of Love
by Kyle
[Verse 1]
The song of love,
Let it sing to me.
The song of love,
Let it sing in me.
The song of love,
Let it sing through me.
Let me sing the song of love.
[Verse 2]
The song of hope,
Let it sing to me.
The song of hope,
Let it sing in me.
The song of hope,
Let it sing through me.
Let me sing the song of hope.
[Verse 3]
The song of faith,
Let it sing to me.
The song of faith,
Let it sing in me.
The song of faith,
Let it sing through me.
Let me sing the song of faith.
[Verse 4]
The song of God,
May He sing to me.
The song of God,
May He sing in me.
The song of God,
May He sing through me.
Let me be the song of God.
This is the first song I have ever written in a language other than English, and despite tons of technical issues with my local software and hardware, it only took about 6 days to write and finish recording it. I would like to give my heart-felt thanks to the developers of the Suno music generation platform. This is certainly a game changer for me, as I can write in my own lyrics, let the AI model generate the backing track with background vocals, and to top it all off, I can remove the lead vocals generated by the computer and record my own voice on the song I wrote using the recording software of my choosing. If I like, I can even add in or replace other instruments as well once I have my stems that I can download from Suno. This song is written in the beautiful Kiswahili language in a sort of Gospel ballad style, a love song to God. I am placing it into the public domain, and I include the lyrics and English translation here. May the song be a blessing.
Verse 1
Ewe Mungu wangu (O my God),
Hakuna kama wewe (There is none like you),
Moyo na roho yangu (My heart and soul,
Vyatakupenda milele (Will love You forever).
Chorus
Nitakusifu milele (I will praise You forever),
nitakwabudu milele (I will worship You forever),
Nitakupenda milele (I will love You forever),
Mungu wangu mwema (My good God).
Verse 2
Kama sio wewe If not for You),
Ningekuwa wapi (Where would I be)?
Bila upendo (Without love),
Bila uzima (Without life).
Chorus
Nitakusifu milele (I will praise You forever),
nitakwabudu milele (I will worship You forever),
Nitakupenda milele (I will love You forever),
Mungu wangu mwema (My good God).
Bridge
Nakuhitaji Baba (I need You Father),
Kae nami Baba (Stay with me Father),
Nitakupenda milele (I will love You forever),
Mungu wangu mwema (My good God).
Chorus
Nitakusifu milele (I will praise You forever),
nitakwabudu milele (I will worship You forever),
Nitakupenda milele (I will love You forever),
Mungu wangu mwema (My good God).
This is the song that I initially wrote for the Christ Conduit Podcast in October of 2009. I rerecorded this song and submitted it to Nicole Bus in May of 2021 and won one of two producer kits she gave away, which included a microphone and isolation filter, monitor speakers, a USB MIDI keyboard and noise cancelling headphones that can connect via either bluetooth or a 3.5mm cable. Honestly I only wanted her to hear me. I didn't expect to win anything. But it really felt good to find out I had won, and this kit has gotten lots of good use since then, though I haven't got anything ready for release yet. This recording is released to the public domain by the author. Enjoy and be blessed.
First, I must apologize if this violates anyone’s copyrights or anything, but I just found this on the internet and felt I had to do something with it. I use this track solely out of respect, admiration and love of the music.
This started out as an instrumental version of Purple Rain, recorded on a rather old tape in I believe 1984. It’s just a keyboard and strings, and as far as I can tell, I think Prince may actually be playing the keyboard on this recording. If you listen closely at the end, you can hear his voice counting off for the strings to come in, and the strings that play right afterward sound very much like the end of the album and movie version.
It may not be commonly known, but initial versions of Purple Rain had 4 verses, even though only 3 were performed regularly, and only 3 ended up on the movie soundtrack. This track was recorded with 4 verses, though the 3rd verse doesn’t really fit with the post 1999 lyrics that I saw him perform, and that are the more meaningful lyrics to me personally. So with the utmost respect and love, I sang the 3 verses with post 1999 lyrics, and have written a fourth verse from the heart.
On Thursday, April 21, 2016, God took away from this world the greatest musician and performer who ever blessed us with his gifts and talents. I have heard words like devastated and shocked used to describe the feelings people had when they heard the news, but to this day I have no words that come close enough to describe the great hole left in music by the passing of THE ARTIST, Prince.
Upon hearing the news, I immediately shut down my music page and left only a link to an index of my previously recorded tracks. However, now that I have something worthy of sharing, I have brought the entire page back, with the addition of probably his most well-known song. Special thanks to Ameritz and Google for this amazing version, which is the only full length backing track I could find, and is actually quite close to the version from the movie soundtrack, although I used Prince’s lyrics from just prior to the year 2000 rather than the original 1984 lyrics, as the 2000 lyrics just felt right in this case.
Prince, I hope you can hear this where you are. I’m not even in your musical league, but I do hope I knocked this one out of the park for you. In any case, I did give it all I had to give, so I hope you’re listening, and I hope you like it. There’s more to come.
