Give Us Rest or (a requiem mass in c [the happiest of all keys])
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Released Jan 10, 2012.
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Track Listing
Disc One: The Entrance (or, the introit) 1. Requiem Aeternam Dona Eis, Domine 2. Oh Great God, Give Us Rest 3. Lux Aeternam Shine 4. Come Find Me The Plea (or, the kyrie) 5. God Have Mercy (Kyrie Eleison) 6. Why Me? 7. Fall On Your Knees The Plight (or, the gradual and the tract) 8. A Burial 9. Let Me Feel You Shine 10. Reprise #1 11. Blessedness of Everlasting Light 12. The Sound of Light 13. Interlude The Sequence (or, the dies irae) 14. Sequence 1 15. Sequence 2 16. Sequence 3 17. Sequence 4 18. Sequence 5 19. Sequence 6 20. Sequence 7 Disc Two The Invocation (or, the offertory and the sanctus) 1. Reprise #2 2. Oh My God 3. I Am a Seed 4. After All (Holy) 5. The Great Amen The Consummation and The Memory (or, the agnus dei, the communion, and the pie jesu) 6. There is A Sound 7. Oh, Great Love of God 8. Our Communion The Absolution (or, the libere me and the paridisum) 9. Sometimes 10. A Return 11. Oh, My God I’m Coming Home 12. Leaning On the Everlasting Arms /'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus 13. Jesus, Lead Me to Your Healing Waters 14. Because He Lives Buy on: iTunes | Amazon | Vinyl |
Equations
There are four equations on the front cover of Give Us Rest:
There are four equations on the front cover of Give Us Rest:
- 1.66 x10-27 kg = One atomic mass unit.
- W = mg is the equation which relates mass to weight. The line coming from the g points to 9.81 ms2, which is what g equals on earth. This seems to refer back to the conversation from A Collision in which Crowder remarks "The ground pulls at my feet."
- F = G m1m2 ⁄r2 is Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation. There is a line coming from the G which points to the quantity 6.67 x 10-11 kg-1 m3 s2, which is the value in metric notation of the gravitational constant G.
There are two notable facts about this equation that may relate it to A Collision:- The equation is approximate and inadequate for describing the true effects of gravity on a quantum level, which may call back to the similarly inadequate Bohr model of the atom on the cover of A Collision and the band's use of this as a metaphor for our inadequacy to effectively worship.
- Additionally, the equation models gravity not as one mass being drawn to another, but as two masses being drawn to each other, calling back to the key thesis of A Collision: "when our depravity meets his divinity it is a beautiful collision".
- 1 cm-1 ≈ 3.52×10-41 kg is the formula which relates Compton wavelength of a particle to the mass of a particle, if the particles are very small. From Wikipedia, "The Compton wavelength of a particle is equal to the wavelength of a photon whose energy is the same as the mass of that particle."
Behind the Album