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| Leeland – Opposite Way Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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In Romans Paul talks about conforming to the way that everyone else in society acts, thinks and believes. He urges the Christian to not go in that direction, but instead go the way God would, which is good and righteous.
Following God's path is not always the easiest, and it's almost never the way the culture would want to go, but then, neither was dying a gruesome death on a cross. But that's exactly what Jesus did. |
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| Rich Mullins – Awesome God Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Rich Mullins first "performed" this song by teaching it to an audience at one of his concerts. He had just written it on the road between venues the day before. A recording of him teaching the song during this tour is available on the posthumous rarities album that was released several years ago. |
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| Rich Mullins – Creed Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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It's the Apostle's Creed set to music. The refrain is a paraphrase of a quote by Brennon Manning. |
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| Red – Already Over, Pt. 2 Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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While it's true that not every Christian in a band makes songs about their faith, it's a pretty well-documented fact that Red do make songs about their faith. In fact, every song on their debut album are prayers and reactions to struggles they've experienced in life (or of those close to them), so in that respect they are about God.
I can, however, understand if we're talking about other bands such as Switchfoot, Relient K, 12 Stones, etc. that are Christians but don't always make songs about their faith, or God or whatever. To try to "find God" in all of their songs is putting them inside too small of a box. But the band Red specifically makes music about their faith. That is their agenda and chosen form of expression (at least for this album). |
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| Red – Already Over Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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It's about the struggle to do the "right thing" (like, giving up to God) vs. the struggle with the addiction (the thing that's keeping you from doing the "right thing"). The song does sound downbeat (as said before), but it's only one half of the whole thing. You need to hear Part 2 to get the full story. |
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| Red – Pieces Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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To fallacyofdualism:
I like your response and interpretation of this song. You say that one does not necessarily need God in their life, but one does need love and hope. I don't know what you've been through in your life, or how you've "experienced God," but if you bear with me a little and try to look at things on a spiritual level, without all the messiness of Christians, the churches (which are all full of humans) or your own experiences with them, and just take a look at God, you may find that everything he represents is what you see as being the most important: hope, love and peace. Just something to consider and think about (if you even read this at all). But I really do like your comments on the song, and I'm glad that you were able to check it out and that it brought so much meaning to you, and got you to thinking about the importance of love and hope in everyone's life. I agree, those things are what we need all the time, and if we were able to give and receive those things more freely the world would be a better place. |
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| Lifehouse – Broken Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Chagalianblue, that is the best and most sensible comment for this song on here. Thank you, I agree 110%.
Not every song is about a melodramatic romance or breakup or girl/boy troubles. Some people on this site need to read the comments with open minds and sincerely try to think beyond the high-schoolish mentalities. It's OK to have an opinion, it's just funny to see some of these comments on here after it's already been established that the song in question is definately NOT about these things.
Yes, Lifehouse are Christians. They have said so numerous times. Does that make all their songs about Christianity? Not at all. In fact, they often use Christian imagery to paint the picture of the emotion, thoughts and feelings they are trying to convey because that's their background (Switchfoot does the same thing, and so does Scott Stapp). This song in particular is one in which Jason Wade has officially stated the underlying inspiration, which makes interpretation a little more straight-forward. |
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| Mat Kearney – Girl America Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song was probably inspired by the issues Mat Kearney faced when he was a youth pastor (before going to full-time songwriting). It's about the state of the youth in the U.S., particularly girls, and what the pop culture throws at them on a daily basis. |
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| Rich Mullins – Hard to Get Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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Rich Mullins ranting to God. Somehow, it seems strange, yet highly believable. He always had a way of taking the human struggle with the divine and poetically expressing it with perfection and true honesty. |
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| Rich Mullins – Heaven in His Eyes Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This song raises the issue many struggled with in new testament times and even today... that fact of the divinity of Jesus. With all that He taught and did, people still did not "see" the heaven in Him, that He is God in the flesh. It is interesting to note, however, how the song lyrics change at the end, from people missing the signs and wonders to the deed at Calvary becomeing what we needed to finally open our eyes and see Jesus as what He really is, the Savior of the world. Although this song appears on Mulins' posthumous album "The Jesus Record," he actually wrote it around 20 years earlier. The song was originally recorded on his first (independent) album "Behold the Man," recorded in 1982 with his college band Zion. Interestingly, on the "demo" disc for "The Jesus Record," Mulllins performs the song almost exactly the same way he did on that first recording. |
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| Lifehouse – Everything Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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When Wade led worship for his youth at church, he wrote this song, as well as "Hanging by a Moment" for those worship services. He and another guy who played in the worship band (called Blyss, BTW), were the founding members of Lifehouse. They used this song and "Hanging by a Moment" on their debut album because they fit well with the mood of the rest of the album. Wade has often said that his Christian faith influences greatly his writing, however, he wishes for Lifehouse's music to reach beyond Christian ears and into the world. People should take the emotion and truths in the songs and make them their own. I think people have done that and done that well. Although this song was originally written as a worship song, I'd like to think it's gone beyond that, almost as if God has taken the gift given to Him and given it back to the world, to find Truth, Hope and Love that's evident in the song. |
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| Switchfoot – Only Hope Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Good insights I've seen. Wonderful.
I read somewhere about the circumstances surrounding the writning of this song. It seems when Switchfoot was approached to do a follow-up to their debut "The Legend of Chin," Jon Foreman was having difficulty writing new material. Before, he had all the time in the world to write songs, which showed up on "The Legend of Chin." However, all the songs on the next album, "New Way to be Human," had to be written in less than a year to get the album out. He was having to write against a deadline and was having trouble getting his thoughts and emotions out. One evening, frustrated, he did all he knew to do, and that was pray. He prayed for inspiration and help, and that's what became "Only Hope." If you'll notice, the subject of song writing and music is all through the lyrics: "There's a song that's inside of my soul," "Sing to me of the song of the stars," etc. It started out as a prayer to help with getting songs and ended up being about issues much greater, such as his own personal apathy towards God (yes, the original lyrics do say "apathy").
On a side note, the lyrics here are incorrect. Besides the grammer ("your" instead of "you're") and the destiny vs. apathy issues, all of the references to "you" need to be capitalized, because it is that way in the original liner notes to "New Way to be Human." (A solid reason to suspect this is a prayer written to God). Also, the title of the song should just be "Only Hope," without the "I lift my hands" part. |
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