Beautiful Letdown

I think this song is definitely about God. It is a picture of defeat, which is ultimately a picture of success. Following God is a letdown, it's not cool or fun or glamorous. But it is a beautiful letdown, a picture of grace and love. The part where it says "The church of the drop out the losers the sinners the failures and the fools..." those are the people who Jesus called. He didn't hang out with the high and mighty cool people. He hung out with the letdowns, and it was beautiful.

Its saying that its a letdown that they (we) don't belong here, on planet earth, so that all we have made for ourselves, our possessions, etc are kinda worthless (although not unimportant - i'm not saying that we may as well sit and do nothing if its all worthless cos thats not true!!!) but its beautiful cos where we do belong - Heaven - is so awesome.

And its beautiful that life and this world and people we know and all that let us down but God picks us up and looks after us always!

It was beautiful the day they (the person's POV in the song) fell and as a result found Jesus.

I'm amazed that noone else has commented on this yet... this song is very good. To me its talking about a man, a man who has just realized something phenomenal, that nothing material in this life will satisfy him. thats about all im gonna write for now. ill be back when i have more time.

this is definitely not about god even tho they are a christian rock band. its about someone making bittersweet self-discovery, he realizes that he is special and that he doesn't belong. At the same time, he sees everything clearly and is glad that he finally sees himself for what he truly is.

This song is about the thing that makes you turn around and face God. It's supposed to be devastating. A complete letdown. And it is. But it's beautiful, because despite what just happened, you're standing face-to-face with God, and you realize that's not what you're here for. Yeah. You can stand around and cry about it. Or you can see that you don't belong here. And while everyone else is running this wild goose chase, trying to fit in and live the easy life, you've joined the "church of the drop outs, the losers," etc. And you just... don't belong here. You belong with God. And wherever he leads you is where you will go. :)

LOOOOVE IT!! Just talking about how awesome it is when you finally wake up and realize that you, in and of yourself, are GOING to fail. No doubt about it, we are failures and it is inevitable. And when we realize that we cannot succeed in this life on our own, that is when we truly realize that we have to rely on God to bring about happiness and peace. Jon Foreman, you are awesome.