Lyrics Red Blanket Prelude.lrc Phil Thompson
[id: tpcoveqr]
[ar: Phil Thompson]
[al: My Worship]
[ti: Red Blanket Prelude]
[length: 02:44]
[00:00.03]So
[00:01.33]I’ma talk about my dad, my father
[00:04.04]Well actually, let me start off by saying that
[00:06.42]My mom is, the most amazing person I know
[00:10.24]I just want to make sure that, you know
[00:12.58]My dad is not the one getting all of the love
[00:14.91]I’m one of eight siblings
[00:16.88]And we’re all somehow involved in full time ministry
[00:19.29]Which is amazing in itself
[00:21.05]And, you know, I attribute that to my mom
[00:23.74]And for my dad’s 70th birthday party
[00:26.40]My mom called me and asked me
[00:28.25]To write a song for my dad
[00:30.41]And I remember saying to her
[00:32.29]Erm, mom, writing songs ain’t just that easy
[00:36.35]You know, hehe
[00:39.52]But, you know
[00:41.32]I decided, obviously, I’m gonna sit down and try to do this
[00:45.74]And basically, all the songs on this project
[00:48.29]I wrote them in an extremely, difficult season in my life
[00:52.05]So, it’s like every song is kinda laced, with pain
[00:56.98]Or, at least written from a painful place
[01:00.15]When I sat on my piano, to write this song
[01:03.64]It just came rushing into my head
[01:05.90]Probably, faster than any song I’ve ever written
[01:09.30]And this one is also laced with pain
[01:11.45]’Cause the chorus says
[01:13.05]And when times got hard
[01:15.72]You taught me how to worship God
[01:18.63]And I’m talking about my dad
[01:21.07]So I feel the need to explain
[01:22.95]I just feel the need to explain one line in the song
[01:25.45]So that everyone that listens, isn’t totally lost
[01:29.51]There’s a line in the pre-chorus that says
[01:32.17]But you placed inside of me
[01:34.80]A storm kit that I have held on to
[01:37.89]My own proverbial red blanket
[01:41.37]Um, when I first sang the song, to my siblings
[01:44.08]They immediately knew, exactly what I was referring to
[01:48.47]When I was little, I remember coming downstairs and
[01:51.13]You know, in the middle of the night
[01:52.52]To use the bathroom
[01:54.37]And I remember seeing my dad, in the living room
[01:58.26]On his knees, praying
[02:00.45]And he always had this red blanket wrapped around him
[02:04.57]He called it, his prayer blanket
[02:07.32]And I remember him saying to me as a child
[02:09.67]That the red, was for the blood of Jesus, he-he
[02:15.59]This song is just really, an emotional song for me
[02:18.67]I remember, while I was writing it, um
[02:22.36]Shedding a couple of tears, as I was singing it, um
[02:25.93]So I just decided, man, I gotta record this
[02:28.95]So here’s Red Blanket, when times got hard
[02:33.30]Year of Release: 2018