| Bob Dylan – A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Does anyone know what the line: "I met a young child beside a dead pony." Is referring to? It reminds me of a scene from Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment," but I really have no idea. Beautiful song-absolutely beautiful. |
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| Switchfoot – Don't Be There Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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"If you're a rose then I'm the thorn that's in your side, And does it hurt badly? 'Cause it burns right here." When I listened to this song I thought about my relationship with God as was noted earlier, and this line hit me. We are all the body of Christ (Rom. 12.4-6) , and we all have our different roles. Personally I feel like my role changes all the time, and sometimes I feel like the thorn in this--that as a Christian I am an ambassador (II Cor. 5.20) of Christ...with every single word or deed. So when I don't act as Christ would have me, and nonbelieves see me doing so, I am a bad representative of Christ and all He stands for...the thorn on the side of a rose. At that point am I not the one thing keeping a person from experiencing the true nature of a rose (beauty)? It's a remorseful realization (for me) that instead of bringing people to true Beauty (Christ)...once again I've driven them away. Instead of sharing the One thing that means the most too me I hid if from them because they offended me somehow, or hid it from them simply becasue I don't watch everything I do. Maybe it's a shot in the dark, but it certainly helps me keep my head about me at times. |
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| Switchfoot – Amy's Song Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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This is a beautiful song, I've been inspired to live a better life by it. It was the first song I really listened to the lyrics on, and since then Switchfoot has become my favorite band. The song really does have many many facets, and since I don't want to write a book (which I'm sure I'll get close too) I'll comment on the first one I noticed. "Salvation is a fire In the midnight of the soul It lights up like a can of Gasoline Yeah, she's a freedom fighter She's a stand up kind of girl She's out to start a fire In a bar code plastic world" The first line being our brokeness, "midnight of the soul", when God truly can come and show us all He has for us, and then our responce to what's been given: a joy that cannot be hiden, "goes up like a can of gasoline" (mirriored in Isaiah 6). At midnight, people for miles are able to see a huge fire, and so should be our light when we find Truth and Redemption from God in Christ. And then on too the rest of our lives. Being different, standing for what we know to be True--whether or not anybody else does. Being "real" in a "plastic" (fake) world. Out to make a difference, and accomplish the impossible. It's the way I've seen it, perhaps not the way it was written to be, but it helps my daily walk to remember and sing it. |
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| Switchfoot – Erosion Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I see some great meaning in the very beginning of the song, "Rain is a bad reminder of everything I don't want to know, Rain is a backseat driver takes me where I don't want to go." I've seen the rain as sin in my life. Simply put, the sins in my life remind me of alllll the others sins, and the more I remember and dwell the further I go to places I don't want to go, and remember the things I never wanted to know. But the use of, "Backseat driver" opposed to, "driver" is our advice, in that a driver controls where you go...you don't have a choice, however, backseat drives can only control where you go as much as you allow them to. Notice the shift of power, you do have the control over where you go. Thus, remmeber Christ's blood washes us, makes us clean (erodes our sins away), dwell on that instead of all the past sins and silence the backseat driver. |
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