| Switchfoot – Restless Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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The first verse really reminds me of Psalm 42:7 - "Deep calls out to deep in the roar of your waterfalls". This passage was given new meaning for me recently reading AW Tozer's words: "The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its source." It's like we are water droplets, straining to get back to our source, the ocean of God from whence we came. Always longing for the deeper ground, even the river's ways to run, until the smooth, calm, deep sea of glass, where finally the water finds what it been longing for. |
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| Switchfoot – This Is Home Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The title and the "created for a place I've never known" are probably inspired by the Bible, which is where CS Lewis's idea for the new Narnia came from. For example, "our citizenship is in heaven" Philippians 3:20, and we are "aliens and strangers in the world" 1 Peter 2:11. The idea of the old Narnia/world being destroyed and a new one being formed comes from Revelation 21. For me the song sounds like someone who has found God ("I believe now"), but is being tempted to go back to their old life. They're saying they could never go back because they've finally found home (life with God, living for what they were made for, which starts on earth and continues into eternity). |
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| Switchfoot – The Shadow Proves The Sunshine Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Reytim's idea sounds good to me. The fact that we recognise so much of what goes on in the world as bad suggests that we have some sort of ultimate standard to which we are comparing it. For there to be a shadow the sun must be shining otherwise everything would just be gray. The fact that we may be living in that shadow at the moment doesn't mean we always will be. Also, as MightyMac pointed out, "Oh Lord, why did you forsake me" is a translation of "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani", the cry that Jesus gave on he cross as he died (see Mark 35), perhaps the point in history that the shadow was darkest. |
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| Switchfoot – Let Your Love Be Strong Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I like Shirvs's explanation of the "monkeys on my back" line. It sounds a bit like the idea of God working in all things for good (Romans 8:28). Also a little bit like C.S.Lewis's idea of our sins being transformed into our strengths (look up the lizard in The Great Divorce). | |
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