Needtobreathe: Hurricane

I had another Needtobreathe song awhile back, but this one really got stuck in my head. It just has some good lyrics and some good sounds.



If you want the "Official" version (embedding disabled, thanks record companies!), it's right here.

If you don't want to listen to the song, I encourage you to at least look at this section of the lyrics:

In the light of the mourning
Can we change what we felt and heard
Can we turn it into the glory
Break the paths of our fathers before us
Though we stand on the outside
We will find what we once believed
And will crawl our way to the clear skies
Standing up we are
Standing up we are

We roll the dice we play like fools
We plead with time to change the rules
Its like a hurricane is coming our way
We've all been warned but we still chose to stay

I can't believe it now the time has come

It works on multiple levels for me. Needtobreathe is a Christian band, so you can obviously look at it from that viewpoint--the church (that includes me, by the way) really has a hard time these days practicing what it preaches. Or, you can look at it from a political viewpoint--for the past few generations we as a country have been slipping, and it seems like those who care most for the founding principles are on the outside.

"We've all been warned but we still choose to stay..." I feel like Dagny Taggart, torn between reviving or destroying and starting over.

Can we turn back into the glory and break the paths of our fathers before us?

We'll have to see what happens...