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Lyrics from Essta’s “...and I wait”
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9 out of 10 Banana Sandwich Britney Gone Going Away I’ll Wait Wash Where You Are
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9 Out of 10
This song was written after spending an afternoon with a girl who was boasting about the lies she used to tell her parents… and get away with. It’s focused on the stereotypical lies parents get from their teenagers.
Exodus 20:16 “Thou shalt not give false testimony against thy neighbour.” -Nate
Just another day at school
Got no homework tonight
Learned those algebraic rules
I’m doin’ fine, yeah, doin alright
I can’t see…what’s wrong with one little white lie
CHORUS:
You’re lying to me
Can’t you see the difference between what’s right and what’s wrong
You’re dying a slave
To the false reality you’ve lived for so long
Me and my mates at the mall
Hanging, smoking, hiding, checking chicks out
Far away from the school halls
We’ll be fine unless our folks find out
CHORUS
Lie, lie, lie… little white lies
Lie, lie, lie la-la-lie la-lie lie lie
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Banana Sandwich
What can I say? Food is close to my heart - Ben
It’s four o’clock on a Monday afternoon, and I’m so hungry I have to eat real soon
Open the fridge but there’s nothing to eat, cheese or potatoes, how ‘bout some meat
At four o’clock on a Monday afternoon,
And then I see you there, so yellow with such flare
Back to the fridge to get some butter for my bread
But there’s no butter left, I’ll just use margarine instead
So smooth, I can’t wait to taste, your yellow flavour in my heart embraced
The perfect snack for a Monday afternoon
I hold you for a while, I see your yellow smile,
I peel off the skin, such joy I feel within
CHORUS:
Banana sandwich on a Monday afternoon (x4)
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Britney
This is the first song we wrote. It’s pretty stupid… but a bit of fun.
I like my Mum, I like my Dad
I like my music cranked really loud
I like Holdens, I don’t like Fords
I like things that I can’t afford
I like Archie and his whole gang
I like school when the lunch bell rang
I like pasta with lots of cheese
I like Daytona and I like me
CHORUS:
…but I don’t like me
I wanna be what I wanna be
They said change, maybe someday
But I like me, I like me
I like Maccas, Jacks and KFC
I like blondes but do they like me
I like music if I can choose it
Because I like dancing to frypan music
I like Townsville and it’s new Strand
I like playing in this rock n roll band
I like Johnny and His GST
I like Britney…NOT! I like me
CHORUS
I don’t like me
But Jesus is walking with me everyday
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Gone
The person this song is talking about… is actually me, or rather the part of me which wants to do good and wants to love God and has passion. I wrote this when I felt like that part had left town. Sometimes we lose the passion and the love we used to have, but ultimately when we look at Christ, and the life he lost for us, none of this really matters. The fact is, Jesus saved us, and we need to keep our focus on that. - Ben
When Ben first showed me this song, and the emotion that came with it, We new this had to be a song different to others we’d written. We needed to recreate that same passionate emotion. It was actually very exciting and intense for both of us as we wrote and arranged a very different music style for us. We open with a wind sfx to portray the isolation of the first two verses, and then anger and frustration kicks in, dropping back to reflect in the bridge on what Christ has done for us, and the hope we have to carry on - Nate.
We’ve been together ‘til now, and we will until the end
So happy that I’ve found you, that I found a perfect friend
But I was wrong
You’re gone.
I really thought I knew you, that we’d make it all the way
But words have fallen to the floor, and nothing’s left to say
I’m so wrong
You’re gone
I was wrong
You’re gone
I’ve raced out, I’m faced down, I’m on my hands and knees
I’m searching for that penny, but that lady’s never seen
Took so long
Now you’re gone
Questions mazing through my head, “where are, where have you been?”
“Do I care? Is this enough?”, If so, than I should see
I was wrong
I’m gone
I was wrong
I’m gone
When I survey his wondrous cross
All my concerns (disappear)
And when I see the one he lost
You and me…
As one
We’ve been together ‘til now, and we will until the end.
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Going Away
This is a bit of a cheesy, pop number but it has a good hook. Actually, for such a poppy song, the lyrics are quite intense. I wrote it sitting in my room, hating everything I am but realising I’ve built all that I am. I want to be in a place where I can’t see my faults and short-comings, all I can see is God. -Ben
What a pretty house
This home I’ve built before me
Everything I’ve grown, grown to know and love
But buried in the walls
And underneath the floorboards
Is everything I hate, all that I’ve become
I don’t know where I’ll go
And I don’t know what I’ll do
CHORUS:
But I’m going away…away
I left myself inside my room again
I’m going away…away
I’m leaving behind everything I am
I’m going away
I’m sick of all these songs
I’m always singing to you
Because they’re always talking, talking about me
I want to jump on board
The next train over there
To take to a place, a place I’ve never seen
I don’t know where I’ll go
And I don’t know what I’ll do
CHORUS
God could You pick me up
And take me far away…far away from here
Outside this world I’ve built
To where nothing is me…and everything is You
Everything is You
CHORUS
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I’ll Wait
I wrote this song as a chastising of myself for procrastinating at bible college. I think God was trying to tell me something through my own song - Phil
Living my life from day to day, taking it easy along the way
Life’s a breeze I have to say, does get hard but I’ll make it today
I don’t know, how far I’ve got to go
CHORUS:
So I’ll wait , and I’ll stay
And I’ll play my silly games
But I pray, that one day
You’ll help me find a way
I want to live like I am free, longing to be what I want to be
Climbing mountains, swimming the sea, walking the valleys, for some peace
I don’t know, how far I’ve got to go
CHORUS
Maybe if I wait, I may miss my chance
If it has to start, It has to start with me
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Wash
This song was a devotional for me… wanting to go to a quiet place where God can meet me. The picture of washing yourself in a river and seeing the sins washed away is powerful - Phil
You make my life seem easy, than a world that’s so unfair
You give me understanding, in a place that’s hard to bare
You have an endless longing to carry me away
To a place where things a better, to a place where I can stay
Down by the river, a place where I know
CHORUS:
You washed my sins away (x4)
I stumble through the darkness, I try to find the way
Battered, bruised and wounded, I slowly fade away
I make my way towards you, listening for your voice
Coming to this crossroad, I try to make a choice
To go down to the river, the place where I know
CHORUS
There is a river, where the water flows
A river with a purpose, together we can go
CHORUS
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Where You Are
I wrote this song when I was over in America. It was weird, here I am in the land of opportunity living it up, but there were times when I really just wanted to be home where my friends and family are. It’s also a cry of my heart, wanting to walk and be where Jesus is. - Ben
Last time I was over here, you were over there and I was over here
So badly I want to be near but you’re over there and I’m over here
All the things that I wanted to hear, you were talkin’ to me but I could not hear
All the things that I wanted to see you were showin’ to me but I could not see
I only wanna be there, Standin’ where you are
I only wanna be there, walkin’ where you are
Down that road do I wanna walk, I wanna walk it with you, but I walk it with me
I’ll cross the street and I’ll meet you there, then I can walk it with you and you can walk it with me.
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