Song Story: ‘Song of Christ’

One day, this timeless hymn ‘Amazing Grace’ kept playing in my mind repeatedly for a few hours; after awhile, for no particular reason, started singing verses from Luke 4:18-19 and John 6 to the tune of ‘Amazing Grace’ and suddenly something sparked off the idea for ‘Song of Christ.’

Riding back from work that evening, as I kept humming to myself, the tune slowly started changing and by the time I got home, the basic idea of the lyrics and melody were already there.

Still remember running frantically to my room, switching on the voice recorder in my mobile phone, hunting for my guitar and desperately praying ‘Lord, please let me remember this one!’

Thank God for voice recorders! The song was fully done in a few days, which is unusually fast for me.

Struggled more with the title to be honest – finally deciding to call it ‘Song of Christ.’ Sort of felt the whole mission of Jesus is summarized in Luke 4:18-19 and John 6; that He will set us free from death if only we would believe in Him and give ourselves to Him; this to me is really His life-song.

The night I finished writing and composing it, I knew someone else should sing this one; reason being this is a Jesus-singing-in-the-first-person kind of lyric (probably my first prophetic song), and somehow it made more sense to have a different male voice singing it.

Had only one person in mind: my good friend and fellow worship leader/songwriter gifted with a voice I’d gladly kill for - Robert Martin.

Sent Robby a raw recording of the tune and he agreed to sing it without hesitation, good fella!