There may be some of you who read this and will have NO idea what that title means until I explain it later. Some of you will read this and got a warm, fuzzy feeling and went and grabbed your guitar just to play one. I had to pour through my music just now to find a good one to get in the right mood to write this. (Hosanna, Christy Nockels GREAT example)

You’re listening to a song for the first time and trying to get a feel for it and it gets to the end of a phrase and you think, “here comes 1. That makes sense…” But what do they do? They throw in that chord that automatically makes you want to close your eyes and throw up your hands in total worship. THAT, my friends, is the power 6th. That chord that you don’t expect to be there, but it just changes the feel of what’s happening. And we LOVE it. At first it felt so awkward to add that chord, almost taboo. Now today it seems that we look for it to be it certain places and when it’s not we are disappointed.

Power 6th, what have you done to us? We long for you, we sing you in our sleep. When we write music, we get super excited about knowing that you’re going to be there for us at the end of the measure. Nothing is the same anymore now that you’ve come into our lives forever. I don’t know if there are any worship songs out there today that you aren’t a part of in some integral way. Never leave us, Power 6th. Your light shines when all else fades (sorry, that song came on and I sacreligiously threw that in there. Forgive me, Hillsongians). Sincerely, worship leaders and musicians all over the place.