| Linkin Park – New Divide Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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My interpretation is a personal experience the first verse is pretty much exactly what happened to me. I went for a walk up this hill one night just out of town and I got near the top to an open field and decided to stay the night there sleeping in the open. Anyway as I went to sleep the sky was clear and the stars were shining it looked pretty amazing. The next thing I know I woke up to the sound of thunder - "like a startling sound that fate had found me" - and staring at this massive dark cloud. Basically I got up and ran for shelter (I was a little freaked out I had never heard thunder that loud before). As I ran lightning hit a power pole that was near where I was sleeping. I managed to tuck myself away in the bush line. Hail was coming down the size of marbles and and the lightning was flashing all around me. I was right in the middle of this electrical storm. - "I remembered each flash as time began to blur." - I was up there in the middle of the night with no idea what time it was. It's my history before this moment that has this song striking a chord with me. Almost three years ago I decided to leave my old life behind and turn back to Jesus in the time since then I had basically been in the wilderness not knowing what was wanted of me, having no idea of my purpose and direction. What I did when I turned back to Him was ask to be used for His purpose. I had seen a lot of pain and suffering in my time so I was desperate not only to see a change in my life but also in the lives of the people around me. (Interestingly "What I've Done" was released a few months after that and was on the air when I was struggling to get over all the things I had done wrong in my life, I had a few dark months round that time wrestling angels.) As I was curled up in the bush line I started having a conversation with God and for the first time I heard His voice clearly. - "and Your voice was all I heard." - He had come to call me out to give me what I deserved - "That I get what I deserve". Up until that point up on the hill I had almost given up I thought maybe where I had got to was all that the Lord had for me, I still had an emptiness, I still had a hole to fill, I was stuck between my past and my future but still I accepted it and was happy to carry on. - "So give me a reason to prove me wrong, to wash this memory clean." - the chorus for me is my feelings towards God that I wanted more to live for, I wanted Him to show me that there was more then what I was. In a way I was demanding the truth from Him, the truth itself opened up a new divide between the moment of my destiny and the Kingdom of Heaven. When I came back down from the hill in the morning my first action was walking out on my friends I was living with. I had started to head towards my future and that is all I am focused on, my past is left behind everyday. I had nowhere to go but forward everything had been cleared away in one moment, just like a bomb had gone off - "the ashes fell like snow." - after the loud impact of the bomb there was silence left just like there is when snow falls. Before the bomb I was feeling comfortable where I was, thinking maybe that I was in my promised land but a new divide opened up between where I was and where I am going. - "And the ground caved in, between where we were standing" - I was there with the Lord but the ground caved in between us and He called out if you want your promised land you'll have to follow me across this new divide. The new divide is filled with uncertainty all I have now is faith for there will be many battles to face, many challenges to come. What was once comfort has become a daily walk of uncertainty. Everything before was a lie I had denied the truth, I had regrets and all I had to do was admit them to God rather then hiding them. That night was the night I received His grace... That was what I deserved. |
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| Jon Foreman – My Love Goes Free Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| It could be a song about the loneliness that two people can feel when they are apart. Because we are all individuals who have our own purpose. No matter how each other feels, how lonely we are without each other we still have to let them live the life that they are meant to live. | |
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