| Five Iron Frenzy – Spartan Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Spartan can mean simple and frugal, without luxuries. I listened to this song for the first time in a long time recently, and keeping this definition in mind, I think largely of my own life. I live in an apartment complex with 4 other guys and my life, like many other christians, is not an outwardly impressive one. Life is full of pain and we sometimes stick with our simple, comfortable lifestyles and refuse to put ourselves out there because we're so afraid of being vulnerable or getting hurt. In this song, I see a story of a man who lives a life like mine and is caught up in the pain of his sorrows, sadness and failures and doesn't want to open himself up again. "Cold and unconcerned are anything but new." How many of us have ignored the pain of others because we feel like our own pain is greater? He said Love endures all things and it hurts to think he's right... knowing that our love is sometimes so circumstantial. If I mark the span of failure is his burden just as light? ... If my life is marked with failure, will His salvation still ease my pain and give me peace? is it just the cripples here who understand the truth? Sometimes it can seem like the only people who truly understand the world and who you are, are those people who have been hurt the way you have. And yet... love nailed Jesus to the cross and love crucified Him. Jesus knew more about pain and rejection and suffering than any of us. And knows so, so much more about love and its cost. |
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