I'm not any kind of big fan of Kutless, I heard the song on the radio again this morning and looked up the lyrics.
The song isn't obviously about cutting and the band says that, though their band name wasn't a reference to cutting, the name has attracted cutters so why wouldn't this song have a little reference to that in it.
It made me think of cutting because the line "You need to feel just to know that you're alive" which reminds me of the line from Iris "you bleed just to know you're alive" is the description of how my wife felt in the many years in her life that she cut. Her pain is something I've come to understand very well - there's a horrible numbness. As far as the bandages line, I don't think most cutters use bandages - they love their scars because it shows the pain within. My wife hid her cuts/scars from others but not from herself, that was the point. After years of sexual abuse, her father still won't acknowledge what he's done to her, but her scars don't lie about the pain she felt and still sometimes feels.
Now I don't know how Christian Kutless really is but the hardening of your heart that has to go on to live in severe pain and abuse really hardens your heart making you unable to feel anything, as an adult you can't interact with people or even your children in any healthy way, you keep doing things that destroy yourself (even down to abusive friends and spouses) - Christ is the only answer but not one we seek merely as an alternative to cutting but as the truth.
I'm not any kind of big fan of Kutless, I heard the song on the radio again this morning and looked up the lyrics.
The song isn't obviously about cutting and the band says that, though their band name wasn't a reference to cutting, the name has attracted cutters so why wouldn't this song have a little reference to that in it.
It made me think of cutting because the line "You need to feel just to know that you're alive" which reminds me of the line from Iris "you bleed just to know you're alive" is the description of how my wife felt in the many years in her life that she cut. Her pain is something I've come to understand very well - there's a horrible numbness. As far as the bandages line, I don't think most cutters use bandages - they love their scars because it shows the pain within. My wife hid her cuts/scars from others but not from herself, that was the point. After years of sexual abuse, her father still won't acknowledge what he's done to her, but her scars don't lie about the pain she felt and still sometimes feels.
Now I don't know how Christian Kutless really is but the hardening of your heart that has to go on to live in severe pain and abuse really hardens your heart making you unable to feel anything, as an adult you can't interact with people or even your children in any healthy way, you keep doing things that destroy yourself (even down to abusive friends and spouses) - Christ is the only answer but not one we seek merely as an alternative to cutting but as the truth.