| Switchfoot – Daisy Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| Agree with the flower analogy - Daisy is both a flower and a person's name (representing all of us). Jesus said to consider the flowers of the field. They are temporary but cared for by God. They trust Him to provide sunshine and rain. Though rain and a rainy day are often used in songs to be sad/mournful (and match the music here) - they are necessary to life. The same good God who provides sunshine also allows trouble and heartache to draw us closer to him. When we truly believe this and trust God, then we can let go and bloom, trusting in him, just like the clouds releasing the rain - each of us doing our part in God's design. We don't hold tightly to this world but let God work in and through us. The result becomes a beautiful, joyful experience (ending the song in the change of tempo and wild excitement which is the triumph of letting go of this fallen world and living for God). | |
| Red – Feed The Machine Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I agree with kimpmyride - the machine is the system of the world - of sin and culture controlled by Satan. The pressure of the world is to conform (give up and feed the machine)- hide our innocence, fall in line with what others are doing, chose a face that looks like what the world expects of us. But it turns out that we are simply choosing a new master - the ways of the world grow inside us and we are enslaved by sin - living only to feed our own pleasures and those around us. Only Christ can free us - wake us up - kill the machine and the expectations of the world and our culture. By the way the lyrics listed here are clearly wrong - it is not "They pull you faster the gate is calling" it is "they pull you faster, the cadence calling" The cadence is the beat to a song. The world wants us to march to it's beat, keep up with our cultural expectations of who we are supposed to be. As Christians we need to stop trying to be like the world and be free in Christ. |
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| Skillet – Forsaken Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I agree the song can sound kind of negative but I think the tone (not the meaning) is about being honest with God. Read the Psalms or even like other mentioned, Christ's prayer on the cross "My God, why have you forsaken me." It is okay to tell God exactly what we feel (he knows anyway!) As far as the meaning of the song, I think so many times we are passionate and feel like we will follow God no matter the cost but we lose that focus or we sin and fall away. Sometimes we are doing what is right but problems and persecution comes and we feel God has forsaken us. The truth is God never forsakes us, but he is not afraid to let us feel the pain of our sin and bad choices, or even of being in a broken and messed up world. After all he does call us to take up our cross and to share in the sufferings of Christ. For whatever reason, we feel this pain or separation we can be honest with him. He uses that pain to help us to cry to him. He is not breaking us, not who we really are in Him, but he will let it break our self-centeredness, our sinfulness, our pride, etc... so that we earnestly fall on our knees and seek him. It makes us want to get back to the place where we want to remove everything else that gets in the way and fall in love with him again. |
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