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1982 - By the time I began working on this song, I had moved twice. My roommate Paul Lessard got a job at Northrup Grumman, and moved way up north. At the same time, his brother Steve was looking for a roommate. He lived down in Chula Vista and I decided to take the offer. Steve was a very studious character. While in the Navy, he knew he wanted to be a computer engineer, and he got all the books ahead of time and read them cover to cover. Then when he was discharged he breezed through college, finishing top of his class and was offered jobs all over the country. He had settled in at some major company in San Diego,I forget who it was. Well life in Chula Vista was anything but a departure from the party life! My neighbors were big time into wine women and song and I fell right in with them, spending many nights at a bar called The Lantern, or as we called it, The Latrine. Truth be told, I was having a blast, but thank God he got me out of there and back on track when an opportunity to get my own house came up. But there were some great people I met in Chula Vista. Steve Harrison was the property manager and a great guitar player who taught me how to play Blackbird and a very nice rendition of Summertime. George and Joe had the apartment down stairs and they took me into their inner circle of friends; mostly all people who had grown up in CV. They also took me along camping at the La Jolla Indian reservation and tubing down the rapids where we witnessed the death of a young man who decided to shoot the falls twenty feet high and got pinned at the bottom.Then I began to meet and hang around with some people who were pretty high up on the drug culture food chain. They were dealing pot in the hundreds of kilos and cocaine in pounds and buying from someone in South America. It scares me now to think how my life might have turned out had I not gotten away from that scene!
As fate would have it, Kristina (my boss from Rosenblatt) had been renting this one-bedroom house in East San Diego and it was a sweet deal. I think she was paying $250.00 per month for it. She bought a home and offered to let me take over the rental and I jumped on it. During this time, Mike Lessard had his first yacht and kept it moored at Dana Landing. I was kinda like first mate on the boat and we went out on the bay often and out to sea a few times; once in storm conditions- one of the scariest rides of my life. It was during the first El Nino condition we were having which brought in some really interesting marine life and activity. One night we went out on the bay and when we came into Enchanted Cove (one of the main coves of Fiesta Island) the whole area was lit up with these glowing green sea worms. It was so cool! Another time we went fishing out by the kelp beds off La Jolla Shores and this sea otter came right up to the boat. I leaned over the stern and he had both flippers up on the swim step and just two feet away looked right at me. He turned his head to one side and spat, then looked back, seemingly unafraid. He seemed like he was requesting permission to come aboard, so we accommodated him; lowering a milk crate into the water and he climbed right in. We took him on board and he wandered around checking the boat out and believe it or not climbed onto the captain’s seat and placed his flippers on the wheel as though he was gonna take over control of the boat! Then we noticed he had a fishing hook stuck in his mouth. We couldn’t get close enough to get it out. We spotted a Coast Guard boat and flagged them down and they took him to Scripps for medical attention.
My life was one of contradictions at this time, and although I continued to party, drink and take drugs recreationally, all that was about to change and the strange thing is, I knew it! Turn To The Lord was written out of the faith I had that I was about to enter into a new era of my life. The recording is the first time I changed the song tempo in the middle of a song using a tempo track. It also features the speaking voice of my lovely stepdaughter Brooklyn Williams reciting scripture.
TURN TO THE LORD
Words by Reggie Michaud © 1982
When I was a young lad, I found a place deep in the woods
And it seemed to me that no one had ever been there before
I’d been around for thirteen years and I felt myself begin to change
Just a restless soul searching for a place to call my own
And then it hit me; that there was no one listening to me
And it hit me; that there was nobody taking me seriously
So I turned myself around and looked inside...
And I turned to the Lord
Well now I speak of lately, I’ve found that magic once again
And it seems to me Jesus Christ has been here all along
I’ve been around for twenty three years and I feel myself begin to change
Just a restless soul searching for the One to lead me home
And then it hits me; there is always someone listening to me
And it hits me; there is a higher power taking me seriously
So I turn myself around and I look inside...
And I turn to the Lord- I turn to the Lord-
I turn to the LordI TURN TO THE LORD!
(Acts 4:12 by Brooklyn Williams)
…for there is no other name under heaven
by which we must be saved: Jesus Christ!!!
Said-a you can turn to the Lord.
Give it all to the maker of life
If you’re living in sin and you need a way in
Then-a you can turn to the Lord
Said a you can turn to the Lord.
Give your heart to the man up above
If you find that you’re lost and you can’t pay the cost
Then-a you can turn to the Lord
You can Turn, turn, turn to the Lord
You can Turn, turn, turn to the Lord
1982 - By the time I began working on this song, I had moved twice. My roommate Paul Lessard got a job at Northrup Grumman, and moved way up north. At the same time, his brother Steve was looking for a roommate. He lived down in Chula Vista and I decided to take the offer. Steve was a very studious character. While in the Navy, he knew he wanted to be a computer engineer, and he got all the books ahead of time and read them cover to cover. Then when he was discharged he breezed through college, finishing top of his class and was offered jobs all over the country. He had settled in at some major company in San Diego,I forget who it was. Well life in Chula Vista was anything but a departure from the party life! My neighbors were big time into wine women and song and I fell right in with them, spending many nights at a bar called The Lantern, or as we called it, The Latrine. Truth be told, I was having a blast, but thank God he got me out of there and back on track when an opportunity to get my own house came up. But there were some great people I met in Chula Vista. Steve Harrison was the property manager and a great guitar player who taught me how to play Blackbird and a very nice rendition of Summertime. George and Joe had the apartment down stairs and they took me into their inner circle of friends; mostly all people who had grown up in CV. They also took me along camping at the La Jolla Indian reservation and tubing down the rapids where we witnessed the death of a young man who decided to shoot the falls twenty feet high and got pinned at the bottom.Then I began to meet and hang around with some people who were pretty high up on the drug culture food chain. They were dealing pot in the hundreds of kilos and cocaine in pounds and buying from someone in South America. It scares me now to think how my life might have turned out had I not gotten away from that scene!
As fate would have it, Kristina (my boss from Rosenblatt) had been renting this one-bedroom house in East San Diego and it was a sweet deal. I think she was paying $250.00 per month for it. She bought a home and offered to let me take over the rental and I jumped on it. During this time, Mike Lessard had his first yacht and kept it moored at Dana Landing. I was kinda like first mate on the boat and we went out on the bay often and out to sea a few times; once in storm conditions- one of the scariest rides of my life. It was during the first El Nino condition we were having which brought in some really interesting marine life and activity. One night we went out on the bay and when we came into Enchanted Cove (one of the main coves of Fiesta Island) the whole area was lit up with these glowing green sea worms. It was so cool! Another time we went fishing out by the kelp beds off La Jolla Shores and this sea otter came right up to the boat. I leaned over the stern and he had both flippers up on the swim step and just two feet away looked right at me. He turned his head to one side and spat, then looked back, seemingly unafraid. He seemed like he was requesting permission to come aboard, so we accommodated him; lowering a milk crate into the water and he climbed right in. We took him on board and he wandered around checking the boat out and believe it or not climbed onto the captain’s seat and placed his flippers on the wheel as though he was gonna take over control of the boat! Then we noticed he had a fishing hook stuck in his mouth. We couldn’t get close enough to get it out. We spotted a Coast Guard boat and flagged them down and they took him to Scripps for medical attention.
My life was one of contradictions at this time, and although I continued to party, drink and take drugs recreationally, all that was about to change and the strange thing is, I knew it! Turn To The Lord was written out of the faith I had that I was about to enter into a new era of my life. The recording is the first time I changed the song tempo in the middle of a song using a tempo track. It also features the speaking voice of my lovely stepdaughter Brooklyn Williams reciting scripture.
TURN TO THE LORD
Words by Reggie Michaud © 1982
When I was a young lad, I found a place deep in the woods
And it seemed to me that no one had ever been there before
I’d been around for thirteen years and I felt myself begin to change
Just a restless soul searching for a place to call my own
And then it hit me; that there was no one listening to me
And it hit me; that there was nobody taking me seriously
So I turned myself around and looked inside...
And I turned to the Lord
Well now I speak of lately, I’ve found that magic once again
And it seems to me Jesus Christ has been here all along
I’ve been around for twenty three years and I feel myself begin to change
Just a restless soul searching for the One to lead me home
And then it hits me; there is always someone listening to me
And it hits me; there is a higher power taking me seriously
So I turn myself around and I look inside...
And I turn to the Lord- I turn to the Lord-
I turn to the LordI TURN TO THE LORD!
(Acts 4:12 by Brooklyn Williams)
…for there is no other name under heaven
by which we must be saved: Jesus Christ!!!
Said-a you can turn to the Lord.
Give it all to the maker of life
If you’re living in sin and you need a way in
Then-a you can turn to the Lord
Said a you can turn to the Lord.
Give your heart to the man up above
If you find that you’re lost and you can’t pay the cost
Then-a you can turn to the Lord
You can Turn, turn, turn to the Lord
You can Turn, turn, turn to the Lord
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