A few notes on my new song “Homecoming”

It’s been said that one of the great tropes in fiction is the return home. Here we meet ghosts from our past; old friends, familiar architecture. There’s a lot that has been said about returning to old stomping grounds, but I notice that very rarely do we hear much about Make Out Point and that’s quite odd.

In the geographical folklore of our country we have Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon and the Mojave, the Great Salt Lake and the Mississippi River. There’s the mulch of high romance in all of them yes, but not nearly so much as can be found on that holy patch of ground, high up, secluded and covered in darkness where we take each other to be alone, to speak quietly, to hold on, to do all that good stuff.

From Make Out Point, wherever it should be, you can look out over your city, your town, your bend in the road. From here you can speak into the cavern of the night sky. Your dreams and wishes, vast and crazy as they are, will be registered, if only just once, as in confession, by the person who has come here with you.

A lot of other stuff will happen also, and this will be good. There will be nothing wrong with it. There is a Tree of Good and Evil here, in this moment, in this high place. For an instant you see it against moonlight, ancient and cragged, but it loses focus and is lost against the twinkling lights of human lives far below.

– Josh

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You can listen to “Homecoming” on Spotify or iTunes.

Sermon on the Rocks is out 10/16. Pre-order now at our store or iTunes and you’ll get “Homecoming” and 2 other songs now.

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