INDONESIA

You probably have ever heard a song titled Indonesia recently sung by August Burn Red. I wonder why this song is titled so. Then I endeavor to find the reason. After googling for a while, I found that this song is dedicated for David Craig Clapper (48), a missionary pilot in Papua. He comes from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. He died in a plane crash owned by Associated Mission Aviation (AMA). The plane bumped a tree and fell down on Mount Teibu, Tolikara, Papua, on August 9 2008.

And here is the lyric of “Indonesia”:

This plane is going down in flames and this time there,s no black box to capture your last words

A situation we can,t make any sense of

Sacrifice costs all of us everything

This is the time to turn down our heads

And turn up our hearts

There’s no scale to balance this out

Some say may those who curse days, curse this day

There’s no scale to balance this out

How does a man wrap his mind around eternity when he can’t even explain his own composition?

Don’t you see it’s bigger than you?

He sleeps in the mountains of Indonesia, and the white on his flag brings colors to shame

The earth will swallow the water

The clouds refill the oceans

The earth will swallow the water and spit out

The clouds will refill the oceans, refill the oceans

The earth will swallow (Old mountains will crumble…?)

The water and spit out, and stronger ones will rise

The clouds will refill

This is the portrait of the humble and broken.

This plane crashed down in flames with a man who lived, who died, to better this world.

David, rest in peace.

Source: http://www.afgasforum.blogspot.com