The way this song speaks to me🥺🥺when I sing it I feel like I relate
I found God on the corner of First and Amistad
Where the west was all but won
All alone, smoking his last cigarette
I said, "Where you been?" He said, "Ask anything"
Where were you when everything was fallin' apart?
All my days were spent by the telephone
That never rang and all I needed was a call
That never came to the corner of First and Amistad
Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lyin' on the floor
Surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, you found me
In the end, everyone ends up alone
Losin' her, the only one who's ever known
Who I am, who I'm not, and who I wanna be
No way to know how long she will be next to me
Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lyin' on the floor
Surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, you found me
Early mornin', the city breaks
I've been callin' for years and years and years and years
And you never left me no messages, you never sent me no letters
You got some kind of nerve, takin' all I want
Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lyin' on the floor
Where were you? Where were you?
Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lyin' on the floor
Surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, you found me
Why'd you have to wait
To find me? To find me
Where the west was all but won
All alone, smoking his last cigarette
I said, "Where you been?" He said, "Ask anything"
Where were you when everything was fallin' apart?
All my days were spent by the telephone
That never rang and all I needed was a call
That never came to the corner of First and Amistad
Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lyin' on the floor
Surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, you found me
In the end, everyone ends up alone
Losin' her, the only one who's ever known
Who I am, who I'm not, and who I wanna be
No way to know how long she will be next to me
Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lyin' on the floor
Surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, you found me
Early mornin', the city breaks
I've been callin' for years and years and years and years
And you never left me no messages, you never sent me no letters
You got some kind of nerve, takin' all I want
Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lyin' on the floor
Where were you? Where were you?
Lost and insecure
You found me, you found me
Lyin' on the floor
Surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late
You found me, you found me
Why'd you have to wait
To find me? To find me
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Isaac posted this on thefray.net website along with the video.
"You Found Me is a tough song for me. Its about the disappointment, the heart ache, the let down that comes with life. Sometimes you're let down, sometimes you're the one who lets someone else down. It gets hard to know who you can trust, who you can count on. This song came out of a tough time, and I'm still right in the thick of it. There's some difficult circumstances my family and friends have been going through over the past year or so and can be overwhelming. It wears on me. It demands so much of my faith to keep believing, keep hoping in the unseen. Sometimes the tunnel has a light at the end, but usually they just look black as night. This song is about that feeling, and the hope that I still have, buried deep in my chest."
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To blame god for what the world's become is ridiculous,he gave us a choice,he gave us freedom,and what we chose to do with it,wasn't his fault.People die,people lie,people kill and steal.Did god tell them to do so,did he command them to do so?No.He gave them freedom,he gave them love.Christ not only died for the sins we've done,but he was crucified,for the sins we did make,the ones we are making,and the ones we will make in the future.We are not perfect.We are not obligated by god to belive in him.Times are hard,but when worry sets in,i suggest you go to the god in prayer to make things clear.I don't belive you should force religion upon someone because if god didn't force those who don't belive,then why would we.We are led to be humble about it,to show people the way we love god.Not to embark it on them.To force them to love him,because then it isn't real.I am christian,and yes I want everyone to love god like I do,but I won't force it upon them.You ask and wonder why the world is so cruel,why people do these things,why god doesn't stop this.It's all to let us grow.To love,to be your own person.But god wasn't the one who took a little girl and killed her,he wasnt the one who robbed a bank and took citizens hostage,he wasn't the one who filled this earth with trash and pollution.Us humans did so,and yet he forgives and loves us anyway.There will come a day,you will need him more than anything and he will be there for you like always,its your choice whether to reach out to him or not.There's a book I read called the Shack.(a spoiler,sorry)A man is slipping with his love for god after his little girl has been kidnapped and murdered.they find shes been murdered in a shack,but can't find her body.Three years later,this man recieves a note saying to meet him at the shack and it is signed papa.A name his wife calls god.And you'd have to be close to know so.He only tells his friend willie where he's going,he appears and see's the bloodstain and no god.He shouts at the lord and leaves the shack.As he leaves,magnificent things happen.The shack is now a cabin,and winter has changed to spring,there he meets god.God appears as three people.A light flowing woman(the holy spirit)A big african american woman(god)and a non-humanly striking man(jesus)he is taught many things,and grows to trust god and jesus.He gets to see his daughter,but does not meet her,he sees her through a wall were he can see her but not touch her and she cant see him,but she knows he's there.She asked for it to be like this.God walks with this man and asks him to forgive the man who has killed his little girl.They have a long emotional talk and he forgives him.God then guides the man to her body,they return with her and have a funeral in this place,she is laid in a cascet carved by jesus himself,ingraved with all her life meomories,that she designed herself.She is buried in the mans garden which is described as his soul.He returns to normal,happy and relieved.He follows the red marks that god showed him when he found the girls body and he really finds her and gives her a proper burial.He then tells the police and they follow other red marks and find the other girls.During this trip he is angry with god because he didnt stop the killer,but he learns that he gives us choices and that he cant hold that on god.He loves god free-willingly and he lives life happily.It helps you understand that its not easy for god to judge someone he loves,his child.It's like telling a parent to pick two to got to hell and 3 in heaven,but he would like to go in there place.And it represents how jesus went in our place.This happens in the book and the man sees the way.