A lot of people like music for different reasons. Some people, like myself, enjoy many aspects of music. One area that rarely gets respect with music are the lyrics. A lot of today's most popular music fails to even communicate much more than basic themes of love, sex, or depression of some sort. Even the christian music scene is plagued with a lot of overdone themes. Sure, praise is important, and so is salvation, but how about some other issues? One band in particular who has knocked me off of my feet in this area is Switchfoot. They are band that has entered the charts on both secular and christian music channels. Their latest album "Beautiful Letdown" really puts out some hard hitting lyrics that really ask the big questions. One popular song, "Meant to live" certainly drives home the idea that there is more to what the average person thinks about our lives and mankind. My favorite song thus far, is one called, "This is your life". This song does nothing less than smacks you in the face about your current condition. I'll post the lyrics below, and if you have the opportunity to hear this song. Let me know what you think.
yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead
yesterday is a promise that you've broken
don't close your eyes, don't close your eyes
this is your life and today is all you've got now
yeah, and today is all you'll ever have
don't close your eyes
don't close your eyes
this is your life, are you who you want to be
this is your life, are you who you want to be
this is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be
when the world was younger and you had everything to lose
yesterday is a kid in the corner
yesterday is dead and over
this is your life, are you who you want to be
this is your life, are you who you want to be
this is your life, is it everything you dreamed that it would be
when the world was younger and you had everything to lose
don't close your eyes
don't close your eyes
don't close your eyes
don't close your eyes
this is your life are you who you want to be
this is your life are you who you want to be
this is your life, are you who you want to be
this is your life, are you who you want to be
this is your life, is it everything you dreamed it would be
when the world was younger and you had everything to lose
and you had everything to lose
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