Owen & Chelle Concert - 7:00 pm (4/26/2024) | Christ the King Lutheran Church Owen & Chelle Concert 4/26/2024 ctkov.org | By Christ the King Lutheran Church (Orangevale, CA) | Alright, so let's try that again. Good evening. Good evening. And welcome to Christ the King Lutheran Church. I am pastor Scott. We have a wonderful, wonderful concert for you this evening. A brother and sister duo. They are the era parents to the Carpenters, right? Among other great duos, they are simply amazing. Uh for those who do not know who they are, we have Owen Myers here who is on staff here at Christ the King and then Michelle or Anderson who sings during and shares her wonderful voice as we worship. So, without further ado, can we have a round of applause for Shell and Owen? There is a child inside my heart tonight noone can see that child but you I hold on to you too tight you understand you hold me to you are the one who reaches through the dark when I'm afraid you warm the air when I close my eyes to you are you are my prayer you are you make me strong and in this world I belong to I won't let go others may leave but you will still be there touching the tears that fill and when I am lost you are are the love that never dies as you are make me this world of strangers I belong lord you're all need you so not walk away will not let you go the only home long to strangers I have all I have I need you so I won't Thank you. Thank you. Um yes, that was called You Are My Home. It's from the Scarlett Pimpernel and in the original Broadway cast recording or production, that was a duet between a brother and a sister as they are thrown in a French prison and awaiting imminent death. So, you know, really uplifting and but then, later on, they revamped the show and they took that and put it into the beginning of the show and made it a wedding song between the two main characters and you know, however, you want to interpret it. Depending on your mood, it's fine. Alright. And you will hear the other one later. So Here we go, Shell. Have a smile stretch from ear to ear to see you again I stare for a while between us could be let me surround you I see to your let me be the calm I'm close to you there's too much I can't and and to take I love you without you a grieving in my condition who I cannot find the words to say I need you so every time I'm close to you there's too much I can't and you just to stay and without a grieving in my condition for I cannot find the words to say I need you so That was Sarah McLaughlin song from the 90s and we're going to go see her later on this month. Shell and I at the Greek in Berkeley and she's going to do the entire filming towards Ecstasy album. We're super excited about it. Very excited. So in typical brother-sister fashion, we kind of had a some back and forth between how we wanted to do the show, what songs we wanted to do, and in typical Big Sister fashion, she said, you have to do your original songs and I was like, I don't know. I don't ever do em and she's like, nope, you're going to do em. So, I was like, okay, I'll play a few for you and then you can decide. So, she got to decide which ones I do today. So, this next one is an original and I'm going to throw her under us. So, if you don't like it, she picked it I know this feeling I know it well I know the secrets you try and tell the pieces inside that you wish to sell or throw away with a sigh and a very well I know it's easier said than done but to give him so easy means they will want it's like turning your back on the rising sun running away when you've only just begun and I wonder if this is meant to be I'm so afraid of I look into the other side of me but I know I know it will set me set me free we think we're all playing different games but we're only giving it a different name and when I lose just all the same someone always goes up or down in flames and I often wonder what this is for how when you step through a door and there's always more and you never know what you have in store and on the horizon you see another shore no wonder if this is meant to be and so when I look into the other side of me but I know I know it will set me free I know it'll set me free because freedom all the same freedom is all the same all the same to me and I wonder if this is meant to be I'm so afraid of see what I look into the other side of me knew it will set me free yes I know I know it'll set me free yes I know I know it'll set me free yes I know noone will set me set me free Thank you. Did I make a good choice on that one? Yeah. It's amazing how you can speak right to my heart in a word you light up the try as I may I could never explain what I hear say a thing the smile on your face lets me know that there's a truth in your eyes saying you the touch of your hand says you'll catch me if ever I fall see it best when you say nothing at all day long I can't hear people talking out loud you hold me near old mister Webster could never define what's being said between your heart and face let's me know that you need me there's truth in your eyes saying you me the touch of your hand since you catch me a feather up you stay it best on your face lets me know that there's a truth in your eyes the touch of your hand says you'll catch me if ever I fall when you This one's another original called There I Go. Um I wrote this back in college twenty something years ago and haven't done it in public. So, this is it's I think it's it's debut. So, here we go. You tell me I'm a winter but I don't look good in so I wrapped myself in shades of blue when all my have fled they leave no footprints in their so let's be honest with ourselves dreams don't always come true it takes a fool to pin his hopes on somebody like you simply too good to be true simply to go deceiving myself you seem so perfect that it hurts and yet haven't felt this good because I don't know I haven't felt this good since I don't know you see when I open my mouth I always cross the line or who draws those lines life's become a walls real quick and I've torn down all of mine you make me build another and I swear I swear walk away go deceiving myself again again you seem so perfect that it hurts and yeah I haven't felt as good as I don't know I haven't felt this good since I and I needed you and I will is I wait for you and I'll wait for and go deceiving myself again over and over you seem so perfect that it hurts haven't felt this good since I don't know haven't felt this good because I I haven't felt this good since I don't I think that's one thing I've always been very jealous of is he's a very gifted songwriter. It's really amazing. Speaking of, good songs, this one is a classic by Fleetwood Mac. I took my love and I took it down I climbed a mountain and I turned around my reflection and snow covered hills to the landslide brought me down oh mirror in the sky what is love can the child within rise above the changing ocean handle the seasons of well I've been afraid of changing because I build my around you but time makes you bolder children get to well I've been afraid of changing around you but time makes you bolder and children get older I'm getting older too to oh take my love take it down hold you climb a mountain and turn and if you see my reflection in the snow covered hill where the landslide will break it down if you see my reflection in the snow where the land will bring him down bring Isn't that lovely? So this is another original it's the newest one and some of the songs we put together a little bit of a journey, songs to inspire us, a lot of themes about connections to people, we go through a hard times and it's a connections a loved ones that we have that help lift us through them and you know, there's no greater bond than friends, family, church, community, and so, these are just kind of hopefully messages back to you that you know, we couldn't get a lot of the stuffs that we get through without each other and but sometimes, you have to be a little bit mad about it. So, this is called close to home. The day is bleak my thoughts has dim as a light that fills this empty room strangers seeks inside the strength to breathe the gloom again the pages torn sounds as hollow as a heart the beat within your breast the path is worn the path you follow is beaten as it's bleeding low it in my hidden close to home am I hidden close I couldn't close to the close to the bone your are not but it sends your way upon my back your mother's filled with brine on enough to bring me back again well am I hidden close in my hidden clothes to home am I getting close to the bone close to the bone you well made arms it seems so strong but they could not hold this love of mine one look from you says that I am legal but you you're the one who cries am I hidden close to home in my hidden clothes to haunt and am I getting close to the holes to the bone am I cutting close to the to the bone Thank you. This is a song from the cinematic masterpiece. Um what is it called? I don't remember. It's a movie with Meg Ryan and an angel. Remember that one? In the nineties? Yeah, that one. That one. And I'd give up forever to touch you because I know that you feel me somehow you're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be and I don't want to go home right now and all I can taste is this moment and all I can breathe is your life and sooner or I just don't want to miss you tonight and I don't want to see me because I don't think that they'd when everything's made to be broken I just want you to know and you can't fight the tears that ain't coming or the moment of truth in your life and everything feels like a movie yeah you bleed just to know your and I don't to see me because I don't think that they'd understand when everything's made to be broken I just want you to know and I don't want the world to see me because I don't think that they'd understand when everything's made to be broken I just want you to know who and I don't want the world to see me because I don't think that they'd understand when everything's made to be broken I just want you to know who I just want you to know I just want you to know City of Angels, that's the one. She comes down from yellow mountain on a dark fat land she rides on a pony she named wild wildfire with a whirlwind by your side on a cold Nebraska night oh they say she died one winter when there came a killing frost and a pony she named wildfire busted down in a blizzard she was lost you ain't calling you ain't calling she wouldn't call and by the dark not planet but there came an early snow it's been a hoot out howling by my window now for six nights in a she's coming for me oh and on wildfire we're both going to go we'll be riding wild you've been calling both going to ride I'm going to stop busting behind get those hard times right out of my mind right in wild wild why Thank you. You'll remember me when the west wind move upon the fields of barley you forget the sun in his jealous sky as we walk in fields of gold so she took her for 2 days away upon the fields of barley in his arms she fell as her hair came down among the fields of gold will you stay with me will you be my the fields of barley we'll forget the sun in his jealous sky as we lie in fields of gold I never but I swear in the days still left we'll walk in fields of gold we'll walk in fields of gold lightly broken we'll walk in fields of gold we'll walk in fields of gold many years have passed since those summer days of barley see the children run as the sun among the fields of when the west wind moves upon the fields of barley you can tell the sun in his jealous sky when we walked in fields of gold walked in fields of gold when we walked in fields of gold and now we're going to bring up a special guest, a super secret mystery man. Who needs no introduction? But this is pastor Scott Gemer Dear friend, dear pastor. Amazing singer. Keep going. Thank you. Oh yeah. And this is a song about two handsome studs. That's right. Alrighty, here we go. Did I abuse her or show her disdain why does she run from me if I should lose her how shall I regain the heart she has won from me agony when the one thing you want is the only thing out of your high in a tuber sits by the oven maintaining her light and becoming frequently humming a lighthearted I can far more painful than yours when you know she would go with you if there only were doors hanging all the torture they teach what's what's so intriguing we have so fatiguing what's out of reach am I not sensitive clever, well mannered, considerate, passionate, charming, as kind as I'm handsome, an heir to a throne. You're everything made ins could wish for. The wine oh I know. Girl must be mad. You know nothing of madness till you're climbing her hair and she's singing up there and you're wide nearing her all the while hearing her I get in misery all this different for me always 10 steps behind. Always 10 feet below and she's just out of reach. I believe that can cut like an eye. I must have to Thank you. Well, I've known Owen for quite a long time and what's amazing tonight is the confidence that he is showing. I sing with Owen and my lovely bride and our amazing guitarist Todd in a quartet. And I remember when we, our first couple of concerts and we sang Lily's Eyes. Mm hmm. From the Secret Garden and Jenny said, well, why don't you just play? Oh no. I just want to stay behind my piano. but no, I want you to see how amazing just over the last few years but right now, how amazing this man is. But then on top of that but also on top of that, I have seen Shell grow in so many beautiful ways Um I've known her for a few years as well but from when I first met her to where she is now, simply spectacular. Thank you for sharing your voice tonight with us. So, just to help out with tonight's festivities. We're asking for a free will offering. I mean, if you like what's happening this evening, throw in 1 $1000 bill. So, I always do this so we're going to become a little Pentecostal. You're going to raise your hand up like this. Put your, not all of you putting your hands up. Put your hands up like this. Put your hands up like this. I'll put you. Sir, put your hands up. Sir, looking right at you. Sir, write you. Put your hands up like this and then, I want you to reach over to your neighbor's pocketbook. And pull out everything Jenny, there we please come. Uh there's going to be a couple of plates that are going to be going around Are you enjoying yourself this evening? Yeah. Special welcome to all of you who are watching us online. We're so blessed to have you with us. Uh we're so honored that you are here. Come check us out on a Sunday or Wednesday in person or online always. So, please come and be a part of this amazing church. As we give. How about a little bit more of Owen, right? And thank you very much for your generosity. Yes, thank you. So, this is another song my sister made me do. She was talking about some of the instrumental songs I used to write. So, when I was younger, I would write poems and I would write songs but I didn't put them together yet because I didn't know how to like do that. I was like, a child and in ninety-seven, I believe it was Lady Diana died and you know, we're I'm half English. My mom is is from England and so it was something that was very intimate to our family because I used to be a British citizen as well and so you're just intimately tied into the royal family and those traditions and it was a kind of just a surreal time even for just globally and so inspired me to write this little tune called Diana and I think if you listen, you'll be able to hear her name in there if I did it correctly. So. This next song is by a songwriter that I really love and admire, John Prine and I first heard this when Bette Middler did it and it was on a greatest hit CD that I got from Columbia House for a penny. Um those were the days and I just I've always loved the song and the story it tells and so this is called Hello in There. We had an apartment in the city me and Loretta like living there it's been years since the kids have grown a life of their own left us alone John and Linda living on my heart joy is somewhere on the road we lost David in the Korean War I still don't know it for no matter anymore you know that old trees just grow strong and on rivers grow wilder everyday and old people just crawl on waiting for someone to alone there hello me and Loretta we don't talk much anymore she sits and stares through the back door screen and all the news just repeat itself like some forgotten dream we both see someday I'll go and call up Rudy we work together at the factory but what would I say if he asked what's new and nothing what's with you nothing much to do you know that old trees just grow and on rivers unknown people just grow lone waiting for someone to say hello in so if you're walking down the street sometime and you spot some hollow ancient eye please don't just pass them by and stare as if you didn't care say hello and there Thank you. Lying in my bed ticking think of you up in circles confusion is nothing new flashback form nights almost left behind suitcase of memory as you picture me I'm walking too far you're calling to me but I can't hear than you all behind wise if you're lost you can love and you will after time if you fall I will catch you I'll be waiting if you're lost you can look and you will find time if you fall then will be waiting time after time after my picture fades and darkness has turned to gray watching through windows you're wondering secrets stolen from deep inside the drum beats out of time if you're lost you can look and find me time after time if you fall I will catch you I'll be waiting time after time you say go so I fall behind the second wise you're lost you can look and you will find me time after time if you fall waiting after time after time if you fall I will catch you I will time after time after time time after time And this is another original called Along the Road. All these times along the road they are changing me and I will follow because it's hard to be in present company gotta let go little towns are drifting by my window and the fields are slowly dying in the haze look to the sky for answers hearts always reaching home world and it's time road and they are changing me and I will follow when it's hard to be yourself you gotta lose your company you gotta let go see the sun sink glow across the water leaving gold gilded facets in its wake and I feel as if I too am golden into dust I am return and it's time along the road they're changing me and I will follow when it's hard to be yourself you gotta lose your company you gotta let go but if I let if I if I let will I find will I find you there because this time's a long road are they're changing me when it's hard to be yourself you gotta lose that company my darling see the snow come down from Colorado see it fall into the arid desert sand like the shrouded sheets in an empty room I am I am crowded this loneliness and it's time along the road you're changing me I will follow when it's hard to be yourself you gotta lose your company you gotta gotta let go but if I let go let go lose my mind if I let go what will I find will I find you there because this time's a long road and they're changing me when you gotta lose yourself or change your company darling Thank you. Now, this next song is by one of my favorite, newer songwriters. Her name is Brandi Carlile and she has been instrumental in helping Joni Mitchell come back from her major aneurysm and getting Joni Jams at Joni's house and getting her to relearn how to play guitar and sing and now they've been on tour together. So, it's been amazing because Joni Mitchell is like one of my absolute favorite songwriters of time. Um and this is one of the songs that I think Brandy wrote after she started really getting to know Joni and her songwriting just went yeah. That's incredible. Here we go. You're feeling nervous aren't you boy with your quiet voice an impeccable style don't ever let them steal your joy your general ways keep them from running wild they can kick dirt in your face dress it down and tell you that your place is in the middle when they hate the way you shine I see you tugging on your shirt trying to hide inside of it and hide how much it hurts let them scatter I have been to the movies I've seen how it and the jokes are you get discouraged don't you girl is your brother's world for a little while longer you gotta dance in the river and the river to beat the stream calling living the dream I call it kicking the ladder they come to kick dirt in your face to call you weak and then just blaze you after caring your baby on your back across the desert I saw your eyes behind your hair and you're looking but you don't look scared so let them when let them scatter I have been to the movies and I've seen and the jokes they care let them spin that I'm scattering and I have been to the movies love and the jokes are Good job. Saying I love you it's not the want to hear from you it's not that I want you not to say but if you only knew easy it would be to show me how you feel more than than you wouldn't have to say that you because worth you do if my heart to show you that word if I took than you things new just by more than now that I talk to you and make you is loving is close and just reach out your hands and touch me hold me close don't ever it's all you and you wouldn't have to what you do if my into you feel is real you say if I took those make things new just by more than and now for a little Broadway Sweep Extravaganza Um just from two shows by Frank Wildhorn. Um we're going to dive back into the Scarlet Pimpernel for a little bit here. Um let me find that little page. There's little numbers on. Here we go. I look at you what I always see is the face of someone else who once belonged to me still I can hear him and even though that melody plays on he's gone when I look at you he is standing there I can almost breathe in life summer in the air you smile forgotten ease in you if you could look at me what's more and feel the love you and you and I could disappear into the and find the love never take my eyes away from when look at you he is touching me would reach for him who love isn't everything moonlight on the melt away who you that someone like a stone when suddenly now I don't know could it be that I never from the I create a dream was he a fantasy memory is paradise for like me that I miss him so I sit and watch the rain and watch my tears run down the window pane I sit and watch the sky and I can hear it breathe aside think of him and when I think of him when I remember in his eyes I can see where my heart to be his eyes I see a gentle glow and that's where I'll be safe I know safe in his arms close to his heart but I don't know quite where to start king in his eyes I see beyond by looking in his eyes will I see beyond that I feel will his eyes reveal to me promises can conceal from me the his his hypno I will walk away and gladly but sadly I'm not wise it's hard to talk away the memories that you love is worth forgiving for now I realize everything worth living for his love is worth forgiving for now I realize everything worth living for So, we're going full circle at the end here and so, we did the wedding song that was once the brother and sister song, Awaiting Death and Jail song and now, we're going to do the original wedding song that the brother and sister song Awaiting Death and Jail song replaced. If that makes sense. It was a tangled web, Frank Wildhorn loves to keep changing his shows. There's like a thousand versions of Jekyll and Hyde out there. So, you know, you never know. It's like a box of chocolates. You never know what's when you're going to get when you go see it. This is believe and we hope you have had a wonderful time with us this evening like stepping on the edge I trust you will be there find me like reaching I place my faith I do I do believe this tender hearts of ours may be endlessly naive we grow strong if we this fragile spins us off into the and I'll be as the roses bend through breeze unbend me spins to the sun and in the darkness flees defend the sea my I do Thank you so much. Thank We have one last song for you to We may have lied. Be like the closing credits in the film of the show And I hope this this sentiment just stays with you for the rest of the night. Clock strikes upon the hour and the sun begins to fade still enough time to figure out how to chase my blues away up till now it's the light of day when the the loneliness dance with somebody I want to feel the heat for somebody dance with somebody with the heat with somebody yeah I've been in love and lost my senses spinning through the the fever ends and I wind up feeling I need a man to take a chance on love that burns hard enough when the night fall heart dance with somebody I want to feel the heat with somebody dance with somebody I want to be the somebody take a chance for a love that heart here with somebody with somebody who loves me me Thank you so much. That was the one. Uh blessings to all of you and thank you so very much. Hope you enjoyed this wonderful concert. Come and see us again. God's blessings. Bye.