Amy Grant - House of Love

"All through the changes, the soul never dies..."

House of Love by Amy Grant is her most poppiest album ever. This is an album I had when I was in junior high, it's a bit hokey and corny now but this cd brings back a lot of great memories for me. Standout tracks include: Lucky One, Big Yellow Taxi, How the Years Go By, Love Has a Hold Me, Our Love, Say You'll Be Mine, and Whatever it Takes. And hey this is the album where Vince Gill sang a deut with Amy on the title track, who knew they would fall in love and eventually get married! I also recommend Heart in Motion as well. Enjoy! December 20, 2007

Amy Grant House of Love

Amy is at her best singing pop albums and this is a nice collection of songs. It is afun listenand has some great songs such as "Lucky One" "Say You'll Be Mine" and the remake of "Big Yellow Taxi." A nice listen for everyone and a must for all lovers of Amy Grant music. December 17, 2007

love has a hold

It took many listenings-through of this fine 1994 recording before it dawned on me what Amy Grant was getting up to here. She has produces a whimsical but ultimately very serious ode to enduring love between a man and a woman. I had somehow missed the thread that joins these tracks together into a coherent statement, touching upon love's beginning, love's apparent end, and love's stubborn rebirth.

Now it seems obvious.

The opening track, 'Lucky One', is a whimsical, almost starstuck statement of love's beginning, as is its successor, 'Say You'll Be Mine'.

Then, suddenly, everything changes at track 3. The breathtaking statement that is 'Whatever It Takes' now recognizes that love is going to be some hard work. It'll take, well, we don't know what it will take. Amy simply commits herself to the blank check: whatever it takes.

This tune gives way to the sober-hopeful 'House of Love', with its almost absurdly deep claim on love's truth:

Though the storm is breaking
And thunder shakes the walls
Love with a firm foundation
Ain't never, never, never gonna fall
Well, I bet you any amount of money
He'll come back to you
Ooh, I know there ain't no doubt about it
Sometimes life is funny
You think you're in your darkest hour
When the lights are coming, lights are coming on


Just when you think Grant might have exhausted her reservoir of non-pop claims on love's endurance and beauty, she comes out with 'Oh, How the Days Go By'. This back-to-back-against-the-world anthem breathe the airs of the biblical thanksgiving psalms, poems offered for Israel's re-praying after a sharp-edged lament had been answered with rescue, salvation, survival. It deserves to be quoted in full:

In our times of trouble
We only had ourselves
Nobody else
No one there to save us
We had to save ourselves
And when the storms came through
They found me and you
Back to back together
And when the sun would shine
It was yours and mine
Yours and mine forever

And oh how the years go by
And oh how the love brings tears to my eyes
All through the changes the soul never dies
We fight, we laugh, we cry
As the years go by
There were times we stumbled
They thought they had us down
But we came around
How we rolled and rambled
We got lost and we got found
Now we're back on solid ground
We took everything
All our times would bring
In this world of dangers
'cause when your heart is strong
You know you're not alone
In this world of strangers

And if we lose our way
Any night or day
Well we'll always be
Where we should be
I'm there for you
And I know you're there for me


Then, this moving creed, 'Our Love':

I don't know what to say to you
Tears are on your face
You dont know how well make it through
Such a lonely place
But if you could read my mind
Then you'd understand
Even in times like these
Im wanting nothing other than

Our love
You and me together
Our love
I'll stay with you
Our love
Our love our love is true

Oh won't you take me in your arms
That's where I belong
Together we are safe from harm
Together we are strong
I will hold your heart in mine
And guard it through the night
Let the stillness of this moment
Speak to us of all thats right with

Our love
You and me forever
Our love
I'm made for you
Our love
Our love our love is true

Close your teary eyes and sleep
I'll watch through the night and keep

Our love
Our love


This is no ordinary Amy Grant album, if to say so is not to do injustice to a remarkable artist. This is a line drawn in the shifting sand, a statement of love's centrality, a staking of the flag on love's truth. November 9, 2007

House of Love Amy Grant

Hello. I got this album because and I'm a fan Amy Grant. She's a great singer. May 20, 2007

Good album

One reviewer said Amy Grant should not have ruined Vanessa William's song. Guess what? Amy did it first, Vanessa is the one who ruined Amy's song! Amy did that song in 1994, Vanessa covered it in 1997.

Overall, this is a great album. I think the best songs are As the Years Go By, Love Has A Hold On Me, and Children of the World. This may not be the best album by Amy (most people like either Behind the Eyes or Lead Me On) but it is still a great album. February 28, 2007

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