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Switchfoot – Rebuild Lyrics 18 years ago
I know this song was meant for the San Fransisco fire and how they have to rebuild their homes, but when I first heard this song, I thought of how it could also be about rebuilding a relationship.

Watching the world with my highway eyes
watching the world from the windows that I've known
these mobile homes

Loneliness was a friend of mine
But with you that's through and I feel home
away from home
away from home
away from home

That could mean how it sucks being angry or away from you, and you make me feel so unalone.

oh we're the regeneration
oh with time to kill
oh we're the regeneration
oh rebuild, rebuild

It could mean that I have the opwer to rebuild the relationship and I have the power to love.

you lit a fire in the pouring rain
but there's so many noisy voices
oh! I get so cold.

the city lights and the midnight train
I hate to say it but I get caught letting go
of the things I know

Again, it's hard away from you. By you, I don't mean the "you" in the song. I mean you as in the person/god you love.

do not conform to this
do not conform

This could mean kind of like don't get used to me being away or being angry at you, because I want to rebuild the relationship.

every life comes with a broken heart
dying here to be made whole
we are the lost souls with a second start
following the builder home
there's a temple I've found in the strangest part
where the stones are built of souls
where the builder himself has promised, "love,
I'm never going to let you go. Go!"

Again, I have the power to love again. I can fix this.

That's what I thought when I listened to this. Any thoughts?

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