This is a beautiful song, I've been inspired to live a better life by it. It was the first song I really listened to the lyrics on, and since then Switchfoot has become my favorite band. The song really does have many many facets, and since I don't want to write a book (which I'm sure I'll get close too) I'll comment on the first one I noticed.
"Salvation is a fire
In the midnight of the soul
It lights up like a can of Gasoline
Yeah, she's a freedom fighter
She's a stand up kind of girl
She's out to start a fire
In a bar code plastic world"
The first line being our brokeness, "midnight of the soul", when God truly can come and show us all He has for us, and then our responce to what's been given: a joy that cannot be hiden, "goes up like a can of gasoline" (mirriored in Isaiah 6). At midnight, people for miles are able to see a huge fire, and so should be our light when we find Truth and Redemption from God in Christ.
And then on too the rest of our lives. Being different, standing for what we know to be True--whether or not anybody else does. Being "real" in a "plastic" (fake) world. Out to make a difference, and accomplish the impossible. It's the way I've seen it, perhaps not the way it was written to be, but it helps my daily walk to remember and sing it.
This is a beautiful song, I've been inspired to live a better life by it. It was the first song I really listened to the lyrics on, and since then Switchfoot has become my favorite band. The song really does have many many facets, and since I don't want to write a book (which I'm sure I'll get close too) I'll comment on the first one I noticed.
"Salvation is a fire In the midnight of the soul It lights up like a can of Gasoline
Yeah, she's a freedom fighter She's a stand up kind of girl She's out to start a fire In a bar code plastic world"
The first line being our brokeness, "midnight of the soul", when God truly can come and show us all He has for us, and then our responce to what's been given: a joy that cannot be hiden, "goes up like a can of gasoline" (mirriored in Isaiah 6). At midnight, people for miles are able to see a huge fire, and so should be our light when we find Truth and Redemption from God in Christ.
And then on too the rest of our lives. Being different, standing for what we know to be True--whether or not anybody else does. Being "real" in a "plastic" (fake) world. Out to make a difference, and accomplish the impossible. It's the way I've seen it, perhaps not the way it was written to be, but it helps my daily walk to remember and sing it.