WE'RE UNITED

A few months ago, Pastor James asked me try to write a song about unity in the church. The specific request was 'a lot like Bob Gillman's 'Bind us together' but with a driving beat and a celebratory chorus.'
He then started unpacking concepts and ideas of things to say, quoting from Psalm 133 'Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!'. It's extremely useful to write when someone gives you a theme, scriptures and an arm full of quotes that come from a biblically saturated mind. One might say, a lot like when sitting in a Sunday church message ;)

Pretty quickly after my first draft this became a co-write with James...
Version 1 had an entirely different chorus that we cut.
Version 2 we changed a bunch of lines. Line 1 and 2 switched around etc etc. We also dropped the lyrical bridge. There was a line i thought was fresh about being in God's family, but i'm thankful now that it never made the cut.
Version 3 added the new chorus, a few melodical tweaks and the choice to do an instrumental.

I'm glad we stuck with it. It's an interesting song. Some may say not very cool - but it's been well received at our church and we've heard much feedback on the uniqueness of it's topic.

here's the chord chart in C
here's the capo chart in G
here's the link to the song if you can't see the file below