Further down on my blog you will find an entry with a series of links to an awesome Christmas light show.
The band that plays the music is Trans-Siberian Orchestra. I have just discovered them myself.
I bought the their Cd called "The Lost Christmas Eve" that that song, "Wizards of Winter" is on.
The music is not your typical Christmas music. The rest of the album is interesting, some pieces stick out more than others, the interesting thing is a side story they tell along the story telling of Christmas, and what seems to me to be all the the right things of this season....
Not sure if they are Christian or not for all of you Secular v.s. Sacred purists, but a lot of the music has the right message, utilizing a mix of metal, jazz, blues, and various other styles...in a rock opera style...
This is actually one of a trilogy of their Christmas albums...
The album I really like in the trilogy has the song below off my last post. I love the entire album.
It is called "The Christmas Attic" and I actually like it better than "The Lost Christmas Eve"
Again, they mix up jazz, with metal, with full orchestration, Beethoven, Bach, and other classical christmas carols and pieces in ways you have never heard them before, and again a parallel story follows the music in rock operatic style as it proceeds through the album leading us through the various facets of Christmas.
I ordered both off Amazon.ca where you can hear the clips of the songs. I would encourage you to take a listen...
The third album in this trilogy is called "Christmas Eve and other Stories" which I am waiting for with anticipation.
Very cool music. I was blessed. Again, I do not know if these guys are Christians, but their music really spoke to me.
Here is the link to their website with all their lyrics and music:
http://www.trans-siberian.com
Here are the lyrics to two more songs that blessed me:
FIND OUR WAY HOME
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
He believed in the things
That he always thought he knew
And had done all the things
That he always wanted to do
Collecting
Each thing reflecting his worth
But now he pondered
How he had wandered this earth
For we all seem to give our lives away
Searching for things that we think we must own
Until on this evening
When the year is leaving
We all try to find our way home
He had time or at least then he
Always thought he did
And mistakes, well, he thought that time
Always would forgive
Each transgression
For his intention
Forgetting
Years he squandered
On things he now was regretting
For we all seem to give our lives away
Searching for things that we think we must own
Until on this evening
When the year is leaving
We all try to find our way home
For we all seem to give our lives away
Searching for things that we think we must own
But on this evening
When the year is leaving
I think I would be alright
If on this Christmas night
I could just find my way home
There is something about this night
That the Lord has arranged
That reaches deep into our souls
And causes us to want to change
And angels know things about us
That no else can know
And this Angel's heart it formed a plan
And then caused the night to snow
THE SNOW CAME DOWN
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
A railway station
On a long forgotten line
No destination
But it always leaves on time
He buys his ticket
As the train prepares to leave
Don't want to miss it
On this night Christmas Eve
He stared into the night no expectations
He watched the world go by without a sound
He saw the city lights arrive and fade away
While all that night
All that night
The snow came down
No conversation
As the snow fell from the sky
His consolation
That the world is well disguised
He stared into the night no expectations
He watched the world go by without a sound
He saw the city lights arrive and fade away
While all that night
All that night
The snow came down
He stared into the night, no expectations
But in his heart he wanted to believe
That somehow someone would be waiting there
Upon this Christmas Eve
And when his train it pulled into that station
He saw there was a single pair of tracks
Within the snow and leading to that
Station door
And he followed those steps back
And on this night of our salvation
Where dreams that have been lost
Can there be found
They walked away together
On that Christmas Eve
While all that night
All that night
The snow came down
In this last season of the year
This season that we trust
It's not only important to know for whom we wait
But to know who waits for us
And as they walked home together
To the light of Christmas trees
They could not help but wonder
About how this night came to be
While back inside the attic
The girl saw them walking through the snow
And she smiled with a child's delight
Thinking how they would never know
And suddenly she realized
Beneath this night of stars
Sometimes Christmas uses its own hands
And sometimes it uses ours
Blessings -Moose
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