6. Delirious? - I could Sing of your Love Forever
From the album
Cutting Edge 2 (Furious?, 1994/Sparrow, 1997)
This song's popularity has reached far beyond the band's; Christian Copyright Licensing International places the song among the 30 most-sung worship songs in the United States of America and it has been called a "modern worship classic". According to Martin Smith, the author of the song: "That song just wrote itself in about five minutes. The same chords the whole way through the song. I mean that's embarrassing really! It was just a little ditty. Did it at church. It was good but I don't think it really blew anybody away. It wasn't like, 'Oh Martin's written the most amazing song!' I still don't really think it is. But yes, that song, that moment changed our lives really. It's been one of the most sung songs in America and around the world. It's crazy really, this little ditty that we don't really do anymore. It's been great."
The song has been released in several different forms. The original was released on
Cutting Edge 2 which was a collection of worship songs recorded for an annual youth retreat in Littlehampton, West Sussex, England before the band ever became Delirious?. The were known as the Cutting Edge band at the time and had gotten together specifically to lead worship services. It was later recorded for
Deeper in the form of a shorter rock ballad. An even shorter radio edit of this version was released as a single and reached #37 on the UK Charts.
Here is the original album version of the song.
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