Where are all the good songs?

Following on from my reading I have been looking for a few new songs to use and learn. And I have been struck by a change in the way songs are written - they are now increasingly written by performers for performers. This makes it hard to take those songs and use them in a congregational setting, the music is complex both for those singing or playing.

There are also areas of Biblical Theology which remain scarcely touched by songwriters. Where are the songs that speak of God's judgement, or God's sovereignty, the second coming or mission? Most songs are also written for individuals and about individual response, yet when we gather as God's people we respond as God's people - where are the songs that express that "we".

As one who would not dream of writing songs, who loves singing and loves music perhaps I shouldn't raise such questions. I am not being critical of songwriters just pleading for some more depth and range in what topics they write about. Just as preachers need to preach all of scripture including the bits we may find hard so we need songs that deal with those self same issues.

Someone has said that "a persons theology is no deeper than the songs they sing."