Erosion Lyrics

Lyric discussion by lowercaseperson18 

Cover art for Erosion lyrics by Switchfoot

I see some great meaning in the very beginning of the song, "Rain is a bad reminder of everything I don't want to know, Rain is a backseat driver takes me where I don't want to go."

I've seen the rain as sin in my life. Simply put, the sins in my life remind me of alllll the others sins, and the more I remember and dwell the further I go to places I don't want to go, and remember the things I never wanted to know. But the use of, "Backseat driver" opposed to, "driver" is our advice, in that a driver controls where you go...you don't have a choice, however, backseat drives can only control where you go as much as you allow them to. Notice the shift of power, you do have the control over where you go. Thus, remmeber Christ's blood washes us, makes us clean (erodes our sins away), dwell on that instead of all the past sins and silence the backseat driver.