Breathe Your Name - Sixpence None the Richer

One last Sixpence video. I'm just happy that the band (or at least Leigh Nash and Matt Slocum) will be recording again!

You are in my heart
I can feel your beat
And you move my mind
From behind the wheel
When I lose control
I can only breathe your name
I can only breathe your name

Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer

A beautiful love song from the band. This was very over-played on the radio, although truthfully if someone (including myself) ever tells you that a song is over-played on the radio that means they listen to too much radio!

I couldn't decide which version to post, so here are 3! (The third one does not include the band, but is very cute).

Kiss me out of the bearded barley
Nightly, beside the green, green grass
Swing, swing, swing the spinning step
You wear those shoes and I will wear that dress.

[Chorus:]
Oh, kiss me beneath the milky twilight
Lead me out on the moonlit floor
Lift your open hand
Strike up the band and make the fireflies dance
Silver moon's sparkling
So kiss me

Kiss me down by the broken tree house
Swing me upon its hanging tire
Bring, bring, bring your flowered hat
We'll take the trail marked on your father's map

Leigh Nash (Sixpence) on Letterman

I had never seen this footage, and now after having watched it I'd say the scene is not "quite" as portrayed in the description from Sixpence's website that I quoted in my last post. (The description, "Nash's blank silence stopped him cold, chastening him into an apology," seems a little off from what really happened). Anyway, here's Leigh Nash on Letterman from August 1999.

Sixpence None the Richer

Browsing through my next-to-last issue of CCM Magazine (the 'print' version is being discontinued after the April issue), I found out that recording artists Sixpence None the Richer will be coming back! They had disbanded a few years back. You may or may not be familiar with how the name of the band came about. Lead singer Leigh Nash shared the story when she appeared on the David Letterman show in August, 1999.

Although Nash has never completely overcome her youthful nervousness on stage, she bravely walked over to a chair on the "Late Show" stage following her band's performance.

After asking where the band's name comes from, Letterman teasingly interrupted Nash to ask if he could stop by her hotel room after the show. Nash's blank silence stopped him cold, chastening him into an apology. With that, she proceeded to finish her story.

"It comes from a book by C.S. Lewis... called Mere Christianity," she resumed. "A little boy asks his father if he can get a sixpence - a very small amount of English currency - to go and get a gift for his father. The father gladly accepts the gift and he's really happy with it, but he also realizes that he's not any richer for the transaction..."

"He bought his own gift," Letterman responded. "That's right," Nash continued. "C.S. Lewis was comparing that to his belief that God has given him, and us, the gifts that we possess, and to serve Him the way we should, we should do it humbly... realizing how we got the gifts in the first place."

(From the official Sixpence None the Richer website).