Cover Me--Fallen Chains

Fallen Chains, 2007

June 23, 2008

By John Donald Trombley 

When you put a CD in the player for the first time, what do you hope to hear?  I hope to hear several songs--not just one--that have original instrumentation that do not forget the voice, lyrics that are put together as by a poet engaging both the heart and head, and, finally, if the CD proclaims to be Christian, the tracks need to uplift God and not just be G-rated. 

Fallen Chains is an independent Apostolic alternative Christian band from Wisconsin. Their debut CD Cover Me contains 12 tracks that are original, poetic, and glorify God.  Cover Me focuses on forgiveness, being set free from sin, God's love, and holiness. 

“It's a Miracle” is a slow-to-moderate tempo song that expresses amazement that God would choose to die for us: 

Die for me, die for me, how your pain could set me free

For Your love held me higher than my sin could bury me

It's a miracle that You would die for me 

“Freed by Your Love” is a moderate tempo song thanking God for His forgiveness:  

Drowning in this sea of mud,

You rescued me again

Washed me white in Your own blood,

You've given me Your name 

“Drive” is an up-tempo song calling us to get out and make a difference: 

Drive by the Spirit's flame

Driven by a One-God Name

Let the nitrous in you light the sky 

“Jean Skirt Girl” is an up tempo song that does two things I never thought a song could do at the same time--promote holiness and express romantic love.  Fallen Chains has this and a few other songs from Cover Me on their MySpace page for listening or download.  Cover Me has 12 tracks that have all found a home on my MP3 player and would make a great addition to any contemporary Christian music collection. 

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© 2008, John D. Trombley 

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John D. Trombley is studying at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, which gets more snow but has fewer alligators than the other Miami.

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