David on Earth CD and MP3 Download - David J Ashley Music

Liner Notes: The winds of change, they've blown through my life a few times. It's come as a breeze and it's come as hurricane force winds. 'Sky' is really a reference to heaven - the BIG change - when all things will be clear. Sky and It's Time are really meant to be listened to together, in that order.

Liner Notes: There's no time like the present to get things right with people you love... and our Maker. Don't wait until you're strapped to an operating table. The stronger person is humble before they have to be. There's an obvious evangelical overtone in this song. But it's really just to make us think that time is precious, and we need to take advantage of our every 'now'.

Liner Notes: This song came to me at a time when things were going very good, almost perfect. When things are working out in spite of my lack of talent or true ability to make it all happen, there's Only One to credit. To me, it's not about luck or some cosmic balancing act or some other mumbo-jumbo psycho stuff - it's just simply the love of my God. I stand in awe. I don't know how say it any better.

Liner Notes: Raise your glass. Here's to the addict in all of us. Well, I can at least speak for myself. I just can't help it sometimes. It's what I am. And now that I've come to terms with all that, I can begin to seek the Remedy... and sometimes I need to do that repeatedly - following the very nature of addiction. This song is a little dark and creepy - but, that's the uncomfortable nature I'm dealing with here. Victory for an addict comes when we take it from destructive to productive - from negative to positive.

Liner Notes: Life's tragic moments have stolen normal from me. I remember one of those times when I received some terrible news. All the noise in my head went quiet. Everything was numb, a feeling of void. I could only feel my heart breaking and hear the clock ticking on the wall. The clock didn't miss a beat. It just went on to the next second, then the next... like there was no difference. I've discovered myself in those moments when my world was taken from me, when I longed for normal, when hope wasn't so easy to grasp, no matter what anyone could say to comfort me or what my faith tells me I should think or behave like. Then there's that stupid clock. It says, 'you're here right now, deal with it... but don't linger because I have another second coming right up, then you'll have to deal with that one.' Or I can allow it to take me back to a different time when I was closer to normal.

Liner Notes: This song is pretty raw... on purpose. It's a song to my dad who passed on in 1999. He was a railroad agent for 42 years before he retired. It reminds me of him. He liked country music, and often had jam sessions with his friends at the house or around campfires - just a guitar and whatever he could tap on... he was a drummer in his day. To me, this song captures all that. I'll see you again soon, Dad. We'll get Leonard to bring his old guitar and we'll all sing this song together then.

Liner Notes: Turmoil, it seems to be all around us. The Eastern and Western world ideologies are confronting. The differences between certain factions of Islam and Christianity are at the center of this world war on terrorism. And personally, we struggle with our own internal wars between good and evil, right and wrong. When these worlds collide, it can be quite a battle. And I imagine in the end - one will win over the other - one will live and the other will die. And as far as I understand all this, we choose the winner.

Liner Notes: God's not all that far off. He really does want us to love Him. I think His desire is so deep and strong that He may even NEED us to love Him. In spite of all the good He has to offer, I find myself hiding sometimes. He wants me - and He's pretty persistent.

Liner Notes: I know me. I just need someone bigger than me to help me through. I think maybe we all do, at least from time to time. I actually recorded the vocal and drums in this song without checking my key. Then when I went to lay down the guitar tracks, it wasn't coming together - so, I left it all out. It almost didn't make the CD because I thought it was a little too odd. But Dusty worked with me to the point where I though it just might fit. I love percussion.

Liner Notes: Most of us have some place we call home. I grew up on the southern shore of Lake Superior. The waves are soothing. They put me in a meditative state much like the flames from a campfire. I know, that's too much like, 'Dude, put in the nature CD.' But sounds have meaning. And hearing waves to me means, 'Chill out, it'll be OK.' Sometimes I think about those loved ones who have passed before me. I suppose Lake Superior means nothing to them now. They're the ones who have really gone home... to a place I can only imagine. I'll be home someday... singing happier songs and listening to the waves, I'm sure.

Liner Notes: This song is the story of my life. It's a recollection of the countless times I was given another chance. It's a reminder that forgiveness is a powerful thing. Sometimes we're so utterly defenseless that all we can do is ask for a second chance - sometimes it's all we really have left is to hope to fall into the eyes of the second glance. Second Chances is the last song on the CD because I want to leave everyone with a word of hope. Thank God for second chances!