CHUCK GIRARD- Singer, Songwriter, Recording Artist, and Worship Leader
A Pioneer of Contemporary Christian Music, Member and Co-Founder of the CCM group 'LOVE SONG.'
A Pioneer of Contemporary Christian Music, Member and Co-Founder of the CCM group 'LOVE SONG.'
Peace in the Valley
I love "spacey" music, and love it when I can create something spacey.
I based this song on what I thought was a kind of kid's melody I had heard or at least a variation thereof. The "sing-song" melody reminded me of something a kid would sing, perhaps subconsciously reminding listeners of more innocent and primal times in their life. The images are once again borrowed from Revelations, with some embellishment on my part. Peace is the obvious theme of this song, but just as powerful to me is the theme of freedom, youthful abandon, kids running around in green meadows, that type of thing. This song conjures up very definite images in my mind, and even though it is a very soft song, it has a holy sense of joy, a different kind of joy than merriment kind of joy, perhaps closer to the real Biblical meaning of the word joy. Chuck |