Comments on: Let Your Justice Roll

By: Julie Beveridge

Julie Beveridge — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 01:11:33 +0000

Hey I just want to say that when I heard this song in church yesterday morning, I just wanted to sit and weep, it was so beautiful and so comforting to know that even though life does not always seem fair, we know that God is the one who will bring the justice, you really need to be recording this and put it on an album somewhere!!

By: Josiah Mory

Josiah Mory — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:38:01 +0000

apparently I can’t spell my own name

By: Jsoaih Mory

Jsoaih Mory — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 06:36:34 +0000

Hey! make sure to send him over our way!

By: michael lee

michael lee — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:09:27 +0000

Well, I made it through, but just barely. I get so angry when I sing this piece.

Huge thanks to Tim Walton for the outstanding backup keyboards. If anyone is interested in buying stock in a young high school player who will be a monster in 10 years, I’d highly recommend Tim.

By: michael lee

michael lee — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:32:43 +0000

I’m singing this song in services tomorrow. When I think back to the story behind it, it still feels like a punch in the gut. It still makes me angry.

By: Cerise

Cerise — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:16:53 +0000

Ah. Good.

By: michael lee

michael lee — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:55:34 +0000

yes.

By: Cerise

Cerise — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:48:37 +0000

Oh, yeah, and I actually had something more to say – I’ve got this sucker on my hard drive and listen to it from time to time. As I’ve gotten to know your voice a little better, Mike, I’ve wondered at the dark, covered quality to your vocals in this song, and then it hit me. You sound PISSED. And sad. But mostly – and this may be me reading WAY more into your performance than you ever intended – you sound like a Dad that would like nothing more than to tear into whoever hurt your little one with both hands. You sound mad, resigned, and…leashed. Because, aren’t all angry fathers who believe in God and Jesus asked to let God do the justice-ing? Apart from legal constraints and Civilized Society, what’s to keep an enraged parent from going after someone with both hands and a convenient baseball bat? Their belief that God wishes them to forbear and allow his/her justice to take things from there. A difficult, I would think, lesson to swallow.

So – you sound like an angry man who has been muzzled by God and is subsequently begging God to roll Justice over the offender in, perhaps, the form of largeish, crashing waves.

By: Cerise

Cerise — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:33:14 +0000

Bumping from the Awesome-chives.

By: Ben Miller in Rio at Addison Road

Ben Miller in Rio at Addison Road — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 07:44:46 +0000

[...] Several months ago, I got an email from Ben Miller, who is a part of the community called Word Made Flesh in Rio De Janeiro. He lives and ministers among the poor in that country. He was writing to ask if they could use the song “Let Your Justice Roll” as the music behind a video they were putting together to try to raise awareness and support. [...]

By: 30 dropframe » Blog Archive » Let Your Justice Roll

30 dropframe » Blog Archive » Let Your Justice Roll — Fri, 19 May 2006 05:18:07 +0000

[...] I’ve been struggling with whether or not I should try to include this song on this album. It’s maybe the most intensely personal thing I’ve ever written; you can go see what I wrote about it when I first posted this demo at my other site. [...]

By: Chad

Chad — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:27:51 +0000

And if you use it in any “for profit” contexts, please remember that it’s Chad with just 1 D.

By: michael lee

michael lee — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:04:32 +0000

Ben,

Please feel free to use it in any not-for-profit context that seems appropriate. If you use it as part of a presentation, please send me a copy, I’d love to see it.

By: Ben Miller

Ben Miller — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 03:38:59 +0000

Michael –

Wow. I love this song… Thanks for putting it out there.

I’m not sure how this goes, but I figured I’d ask – I’m part of a community called Word Made Flesh (www.wordmadeflesh.com) that lives and works among the poor. I just wanted to check and make sure it’d be all right if I used this song in a presentation thingie about our work w/ street kids in Brazil? (This’d be just for showing at churches, people’s homes, etc.)

Anyway, I at least wanted to say thanks for writing something like this that begins to capture the cries of the least of these for justice…

peace,

Ben

By: Morphea

Morphea — Sat, 21 Jan 2006 00:46:32 +0000

Michael Lee’s Greatest Hits For Easy Piano. Hee, hee.

Cerise

By: michael Lee

michael Lee — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:26:36 +0000

Jon, I would love to, but it was never written down. I tracked the primary piano part at a room in our church, and then tracked the other two piano parts and the backing instruments in Logic Pro without ever stopping to write it out on paper. Tell you what - when Ash gets together the 50k for me to record an album, I'll release a piano book along with it.

By: jon

jon — Sat, 10 Dec 2005 19:08:55 +0000

Any chance you’ll be posting a PDF with the piano music for those who want to learn how to play that song?

By: michael lee

michael lee — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:20:10 +0000

When you find 50k for me to burn on production. do it! now!

By: ash

ash — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:06:29 +0000

At least e-mail me ten tunes. This Christmas, give Baby Jesus the greatest gift of all.

By: ash

ash — Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:04:23 +0000

Mike, when are you gonna’ do an album of original tunes? I want it YESTERDAY! Do it.