{"id":62121,"date":"2016-11-07T07:00:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T14:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/?p=62121"},"modified":"2016-11-03T05:12:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T12:12:29","slug":"red-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/07\/red-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Monday: Red Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/A576PxbRv2Y\/maxresdefault.jpg\" \/>After a couple of weeks of Aramaic chant, we return to Contemporary Christian Music (CCM)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>When I was little, I was taught the rhyme <span style=\"color: #000080\"><em>&#8220;Red sky at night, Shepherd&#8217;s delight. Red sky in the morning, shepherd&#8217;s warning&#8221;<\/em><\/span>. The idea being expressed in\u00a0these couplets\u00a0was that a red sky in the evening signalled good weather the following day, but a red sky in the morning bode poorer weather later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s song is from Brandon Heath&#8217;s album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dont-Get-Comfortable-Brandon-Heath\/dp\/B0022XNLI6\" target=\"_blank\">Don&#8217;t Get Comfortable<\/a>\u00a0and is called\u00a0&#8220;Red Sky&#8221;. Over the years it has been one of those songs I&#8217;ve reached for when life has been tough. It&#8217;s hard not to connect with the poetic plea for God to <span style=\"color: #000080\"><em>&#8220;Cover me with the red sky tonight, the promise of a better day to come&#8221;<\/em><\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"860\" height=\"484\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A576PxbRv2Y?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">There&#8217;s a man on my street<br \/>\nHe reminds me everyday<br \/>\nBetter take what you can get<br \/>\nCause there&#8217;s nothing more than this<br \/>\nDaylight fades into the ground,<br \/>\nOh Lord I need You now<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Cover me<br \/>\nWith the red sky tonight<br \/>\nThe promise of a better day to come<br \/>\nSing over me<br \/>\nAn angelic symphony<br \/>\nTell me everything will be alright<br \/>\nWith the red sky tonight<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">We&#8217;re so taking with our fear<br \/>\nNow we&#8217;re folded up in shame<br \/>\nWith our feet nailed to the floor<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re the only ones to blame<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t help but wonder why<br \/>\nNobody bats an eye<br \/>\nYou can see it in the faces<br \/>\nOf all the passers by<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">I&#8217;ll sail into the sun<br \/>\nAnd when the day is done<br \/>\nI need you in the night<br \/>\nTo wake me in the dawn<br \/>\nI see you in the sun<br \/>\nWhen the day is done<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a couple of weeks of Aramaic chant, we return to Contemporary Christian Music (CCM)&#8230; When I was little, I was taught the rhyme &#8220;Red sky at night, Shepherd&#8217;s delight. Red sky in the morning, shepherd&#8217;s warning&#8221;. The idea being expressed in\u00a0these couplets\u00a0was that a red sky in the evening signalled good weather the following day, but a red sky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2496],"tags":[244,3825],"class_list":["post-62121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-brandon-heath","tag-red-sky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62121"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62518,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62121\/revisions\/62518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restlesspilgrim.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}