Song of the Week: The Wedding Photos Song

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Update: You can see the wedding photos slideshow here.

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get a good look at all those photos!

Since this Sunday's sermon was on the permanence of the marriage vows (iTunes; website), I featured a montage of wedding photos from our congregation. Our office manager stitched them together from the most recently married to the couple married the longest--a couple in their 90s who just celebrated 71 years! I wanted her to set the photos to Clint Black's song, "When I Said 'I Do'," but we needed a little more than the 4-1/2 minutes of that song to get through the 150 photos that our congregation turned in. So, we added Jim Cole's instrumental "Effie" to Clint Black's song, creating "The Wedding Photos Song." Here are Black's lyrics:

These times are troubled and these times are good
And they're always gonna be, they rise and they fall
We take 'em all the way that we should
Together you and me forsaking them all
Deep in the night and by the light of day
It always looks the same, true love always does
And here by your side, or a million miles away
Nothin's ever gonna change the way that I feel,
The way it is, is the way that it was

When I said I do, I meant that I will 'til the end of all time
Be faithful and true, devoted to you
That's what I had in mind when I said I do

Well this old world keeps changin', and the world stays the same
For all who came before, and it goes hand and hand
Only you and I can undo all that we became
That makes us so much more, than a woman and a man
And after everything that comes and goes around
Has only passed us by, here alone in our dreams
I know there's a lonely heart in every lost and found
But forever you and I will be the ones
Who found out what forever means

When I said I do, I meant that I will 'til the end of all time
Be faithful and true, devoted to you
That's what I had in mind when I said I do

Truer than true, you know that I'll always be there for you
That's what I had in mind,
That's what I had in mind
When I said I do