Chords for Look To The Son // Hillsong Worship // New Song Cafe

_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] Salvation _ _ [C] tearing through the [G] dead of night. _ _ _ _
See [F] the kingdom burst into [C] color at the speed of [G] light. _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] Freedom _ _ [C] shaking up the atmosphere. _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] As the shadows fade [C] into nothing as the day [G] appears. _ _ _
_ Beyond [F] the skies [C] _ above.
_ Love [G] reaching out for us.
The [C] _ everlasting _ one.
Jesus [G] our God. _
_ Look to [F] the sun.
_ [C] _
Set our eyes on [G] our savior. _
See the image [C] of love. _
_ Sing his praises forever.
Look _ _ _ to [C] the sun.
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _ _
Creation waking up to kingdom come.
_ _ _ _ [F] See the hope of [C] heaven shining like the rising [G] _
sun.
_ _ _ Not [F] forever.
_ _ [C] Lifted up from death to life.
_ _ _ There's [F] no fear in love and no [C] darkness in his endless [G]
love.
_ _ _ _ Beyond the skies _ [C] above.
_ Love [G] reaching out for us.
The [F] _
everlasting _ [C] one.
Jesus [G]
our God.
_ Oh, look [F] to the sun.
_ [C] _ Set our eyes on our savior.
_ _ See the image [F] of love.
_ [C] Sing his praises [G] _ forever.
_ _ _ Look to [F] the sun.
[C] _ _ _
Oh, [G] Lord.
_ _ _ Oh, we look to [F] the _ [C] sun. _ _
Oh, _ [G] Lord. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I'm here with Hillsong Worship, and we're
talking Look to the Sun from the album Let There Be Light.
_ Joel, tell us about how this song came about.
Well, it's a great question, Rich,
because I don't think any of us really even know.
There's like a ton of writers in this song.
_ There's the three of us, and then there's
Marty Sampson and Matt Crocker.
And if you ask any one of us how the song was written,
I think we'd all have different stories.
Because it was one of those ones that just kind of moved around
and bounced around like a, what's that ball that's inside a pinball?
It's called a pinball.
Yeah.
[D] And then it landed somewhere. _
And so, funnily enough, I just remember 12 months [Ab] ago,
these guys were trying to write the song.
I remember being a fly on the wall and listening to Marty and Maddie.
I think Scott and Rue were there.
I can't remember, singing this song.
And it just had a good vibe.
And we wanted something upbeat. _ _
And sometimes that can be a difficult thing
to kind of get out for it to feel natural and for it to feel honest.
But there was a purity to just this simple,
it was basically the chorus.
And I think we tried to work that song, but its time wasn't right.
And I think 12 months later, kind of where it landed
and how it landed amongst this project,
Let There Be Light project,
seems to just make a whole lot more sense,
which is kind of how God works.
So that's how I remember it.
Yeah.
And Rube, there was a scripture that it was sort of based on?
We've sort of been referencing this scripture with the song,
which is from Hebrews _ [C] chapter one and verse three, which is amazing.
The sun is the radiance of God's glory
and the exact representation of his being,
sustaining all things by his powerful word.
I love that.
And the chorus is we look to the sun.
This is the God that we look to.
Yeah.
Great.
And Nigel, would you mind just run us through?
How do you play it?
What are you playing?
Yeah, sure.
Okay.
So it's the key of C
_ and there's pretty much only three chords of the song.
F, [G] C, G, which repeats all the way through.
But I think the most important thing about this
is to actually get the rhythm right.
And if you don't get the rhythm right,
you're going to lose the vibe and the identity of the song.
So the [Ab] rhythm's like, _ _ _
_ _ _ [C] and it's pretty much like, _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ pretty much that all the way through.
_ _ And like a lot of guitarists will play it
with the capo on the fifth fret.
[F] Again,
_ [C] _ [G] just gives that sound.
And there's a really nice like piano hook
that comes in on the turnaround of the song.
And [Gb] we'll play that now.
Two, three.
[F] _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ How's that great tuning?
Yeah.
I like it.
A bit of jazz.
A bit of tension.
Yeah, that's good.
A bit of jazz, but that's pretty much how the song goes.
_ _ It's like an easy song, which I love.
And I think it's like, it wasn't an easy song.
It wasn't like a hard song to write,
but it was like, sometimes I think there's just something _
_ that's beautiful about the battle for a song, you know?
Even if it's so simple
and it kind of was all there a long time ago,
yet I think framing it, positioning it in a way
that would just around that one thought
about seeing God, seeing who he is,
like in all things and everything.
And yet, you know, when we look to the sun,
what does that even mean?
You know, like look to the sun.
_ _ And, you know, we have the image of Jesus on the cross,
which is everything, but you know,
God's written in the sky.
God's written in everything that has life
and everything that's good
and everything that's beautiful and everything that's true.
And so I think the passage of the song really,
where I think a lot of the framing came down to,
it was just trying to create this picture with metaphor,
which the Bible's full of and God uses over and over,
that keeps pointing back to this one thing
that is the only thing that humanity needs to recognize
in our time on earth,
which is to recognize Jesus as the image of love
and the source of all light.
And there's no darkness in him.
And so, you know, we played on the sun metaphors
and like the fact that I just,
the image of like shadows scrambling
at the speed of which light hits it.
There's no darkness in him.
Darkness is nothing.
And so I think it's like a,
it's a fun, hopeful, joyful song
that we can be singing in church in times like these,
where it seems like the world can be a really dark place.
God's in control and everything.
[C] ♪ Christ above, _ _ love [G] reaching out for