| Blindside – Across Waters Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Wow. I've never heard this one, but the lyrics are so raw, pretty much like all of their stuff. To me it speaks of either one of two things: A girl he loves and cares about deeply that has not been saved by Jesus, and so, adhering to God's instructions, he keeps himself back from her, and prays that God would keep her safe, and be the love she needs and is searching for. OR... He's praying the same about His future wife, who he's longing to meet. |
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| Blindside – After You're Gone Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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(May I state to please remember to be respectful when adding a comment? The comment box says 'What does this song mean to you?' not, 'Bash the interpretation of the person above you'.) I absolutely love this song. It's very deep and emotionally raw. To me it speaks of the empty, cold, dead person I am without God precedent in my life, and without His spirit filling these skeleton bones. I've tried it without Him before, and trust me when I say that kind of strength doesn't last long. I'm nothing without Him. I'm not even ME, because without Him I'm not who He really made me to be. |
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| Blindside – Pitiful Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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What this song means to ME (And I'm sure it means different things to everyone who listens to it, christian, atheist, or otherwise) is the horrible feeling of sin, and the hope, and the freedom that Jesus Christ offers. I've been a christian all my life, and I'm deeply in love with Jesus, but I'm not perfect. I fell into sin for about two years (pornography and masturbation). The thing about living a double life (The outside person who's so in love with God, and the inside person bound by sin and hopelessness) is the atmosphere that you live your life in. You feel hopeless, confused, ashamed... pitiful. (And let me clear up that it is not GOD Himself who makes you feel like this, it is YOU who condemns yourself, YOU who beats yourself up). See, you live your life feeling like a piece of dirt for continuing to betray the price that Jesus paid so that you don't HAVE to sin anymore. What almost makes it worst is that His (God's, Jesus') voice never goes away, His eyes never stop burning in jealousy for your heart; You realize that TRULY nothing, not even this great, tumultuous sin can separate you from His love for you, which makes you (make yourself) feel... pitiful. And you find yourself wanting to go back in time to that pinnacle moment that led you down this hellish road, so that you can scream at yourself not to do it. This song to me is a storyboard of what falling into sin looks and feels like after you've been so in love with Jesus. When you're on that horrid road you'll watch yourself hammer the nails into His hands, watch yourself betray those loving eyes, all the while not even daring to look Him in the face. But He'll still be there, waiting for you, pleading for you to except the exit He created in your prison. Because the truth is you'll never escape His voice calling you, or His eyes just looking and waiting to catch your own. You'll never run away from His love for you - there's no wall of any substance that could hide you from it. So you have a choice: Continue to force your gaze away from Him, or let His eyes save you. He set me free, by the way. I'm no longer bound by pornography and masturbation. He set me free in a single heartbeat by His amazing grace (not by ANY strength of my own). He'll do the same for you too. - I Won't Look Away |
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| John Mark McMillan – Ashes and Flames Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song in my life... held me up in my darkest hours. I can't listen to the song without crying, so I usually try to not listen to it outside of my bedroom. I used to struggle with pornography and masturbation, and I was a very broken person on the inside, because i was living two lives. The one on the outside, where people saw a girl going full hearted after God, and the one behind closed doors that was bound by sin, and hopelessness. This song was God singing to my heart at that time. For an entire year wherever I turned He was telling me it wasn't over, and that this was not a funeral precession for the calling He has on my life. Everywhere I turned He'd say the same thing in different ways: "Pheonix from the ashes", "Up from the ashes", "Rise out of ashes". I'd fall asleep, die in my dreams, and get raised from the dead by God's voice. That being said, if you're reading this right now, let me tell you something: God saved me. He set me completely free from pornography and masturbation in a single heartbeat, and it was by NO strength WHATSOEVER of my own. It was ALL by His grace. I may be a pheonix, but the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is my fire and my wings. You can run all you like from God, but you will NEVER be able to get rid of His voice calling your name. Never. believe me, because I know from experience. He is more REAL, His voice is more REAL, than any self inflicted, or non-self inflicted sin, pain, or brokenness in your life. And if you let Him, than He will set you free in this very moment, wherever you are - He will call you up from your ashes. You want to be free? Than you cry out to God right now like you've never cried out before in your life. He is faithful and just to forgive you, and to purge you from ALL your sin, and your unrighteousness... And He's calling you. - Up From the Ashes |
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| John Mark McMillan – How He Loves Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song was written by John Mark after his best friend died in a tragic car accident. It's about said friend (Who you hear him singing about while trying not to cry at the last part of the song) going to heaven and getting to see God for the first time. When I was fasting to seek God and I found out about John Mark, I couldn't stop listening to this song every day. The raw emotion choked me up every time. It's worship formed out of breaking - one of the most powerful forms, if not THE most powerful form of worship, and most definitely the resounding echo throughout this whole CD. |
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