Telos Suite 1 & 2 Prelude, Alive and Well

Album: Adam Again
Artist: Michael Omartian
I'm alive and well and living in L.A.
Or in anyone's heart who wants to listen to my ways.
Got a million faces I want to let you see.
You can share in all I have if you open up to me.
I'm alive and well and living in L.A.
Or in anyone's heart who wants to listen to my ways.
If you want to think that I wear a red suit that's fine.
But the true is I wear whatever suits me all the time.
I will sing for you
I will play for you
Anything you're open to.
Some will say I lie,
Some will call me thief,
I'll destroy them when I'm through.
I intend to regain everything that I've lost.
Just wait and see,
Just wait and see.
I'm going to get what's coming to me.
I'm alive and well and living in L.A.
Or in anyone's heart who wants to call me by my name.
There are those who never heard about my fall.
So they will never know to call me anything at all.
I can take you high,
I can bring you down,
Any place you want to go.
Come and see the world.
I can show you more,
Than you'll ever want to know.
I'm alive and well, I'm alive and well, I'm alive.....
I'm alive and well and I'm living in L.A.
Or in anyone's heart who wants to listen to my ways.
Got a million faces I want to let you see.
And my time is running out so won't you open up to me.

[@JustAThought155]

My all time favorite master musician and above the bar (level) producer!!! The musicianship contained in this project serves as a textbook!

[@skiptrace1888]

Thanks for posting. I used to work in a Christian restaurant, and we only played Christian artists. Michael was always my favorite followed closely by Phil Keaggy

[@jefferyelliot4441]

I used to manage a bible bookstore in the 70's until 1983. After hours I would put the 8 tracks and cassettes in the music system and crank them up full blast. Wow. What an experience. Michael (broke my heart when he went to producing secular but I understood), Rez Band, Larry Norman and Randy Stonehill - and of course - D.A. (Daniel Amos)! The best time in my life!

[@jimcrutcher1845]

I promoted concerts with Rez Band, Larry Norman (my first), D.A. back then in Portland Oregon. Good times, indeed!

[@rudygrande3579]

A compelling musical draw with INCREDIBLE follow up to Adam Again and into Here He Comes. Michael, you are one true artist. Thank you all that you've done to make music all these years...yours and producing others.

[@pepperman42]

I bought "Adam Again" LP in 1976 at a department store that carried some Jesus Music albums (cheaper than Christian bookstores) and nearly wore it out playing this song repeatedly; awesome production and instrumentation! Definitely a "crank it up" song! Eleven years later I met Stormie and she mentioned that she and Michael no longer had this album as well as "White Horse". Oddly enough I recalled seeing those two LPs collecting dust, still in shrink wrap, at a hidden-away Christian bookstore, so I purchased them and get them to Stormie a week later. She was amazed and grateful. This couple are two of my Heros of the Faith!

[@pA-vo7bo]

What a classic - this is!

[@richardnewton4009]

Superb musicianship, incisive lyrics, powerful message. The passion and energy that are conveyed are reminiscent of those early Jesus Music days when slick production and stylized genre music trends had not yet cast their shadow over what has become contemporary Christian music. Can we ever be Adam again? Thank the LORD - yes and more as He dwells in us and is our Tree of Life from which we can now eat freely.

[@bcampbell4987]

Thank you so much for posting this. So hard to find this song today.

[@macsnafu]

I heard this so many years ago, and never forgot it. Great music, Christian or otherwise!
Thanks for posting.

[@MrArtist1971]

3:29 - One of the most original musical breaks!! Awesome.

[@sirkimboard6707]

This was the first Christian artist/music that I listened to as a born again believer in like 1976 and wound up he is probably one of the best musicians out the bunch. Me and my best friend went to a Christian Bookstore(when they had them hah)and picked out "White Horse" not even knowing who that was(we liked the LP cover) and WOW I bought everything I could find by him after that....great arranger/keyboardist/writer and also I have to give credit to Stormie his wife for I believe writing all of his lyrics !! thanks for posting his music Debbie :-)

[@mrfairplay]

I ran a CCM radio show at school, and used this music as background for many a commercial. Worked perfectly and man I loved playing this album on the program!

[@drmjr78]

Thanks for posting this. I love this song!

[@BKJJAMALEN]

My brother bought this lp in 1976 and it never,ever gets old.probably being associated with time i was instantly delivered from drugs and alcohol.I tried everywhere on web to get this cd,except for 99.99 on amazon come up empty.

[@veraluciapintorios5740]

EXCELENTE ❤

[@yona5013]

天才ですね

[@bcampbell4987]

Debbie, can you post "The Builder"? Hard to find on You Tube.

[@MV3rd]

My favorite lines are:
I intend to regain everything that I've lost.
Just wait and see,
Just wait and see.
I'm going to get what's coming to me.

[@yona5013]

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