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WHAT DO SWITCHFOOT SONGS MEAN TO YOU?
What do songs like 'Golden', 'Only Hope' and 'Dirty Second Hands' mean to YOU?
Does a Switchfoot song remind of you of a certain time in your life? Does it make you feel a certain emotion? What do you think the songs are about? What does it mean to you personally? Share your thoughts here!
→Song(s): Stars Stephen This song is a rocking tune, but the words really resonate with me. "When I look at the stars i see someone else" This line is awesome. The times when i am most awed by how incredible God is are not the times when i have an ipod plugged into my head. The ocean, the canayon, and the stars are screaming God's glory.
→Song(s): Awakening Hannah This summer some friends and I had a chance to experience the brokenness of this world--even here in America, in our cities, in our towns. I have seen loneliness tinged with despair and fear. I have seen hopelessness first hand. But love really is the movement. We are waking up. Something inside us has started to burn and is spreading. This town really doesn't look the same tonight, because we're seeing it through the lenses of our dreams. Dreams of hope and love and peace and healing.
→Song(s): Golden Victoria The first time I listened to this song I was literally balling, because at the time, I was going through a rough time. I don't know what I was thinking, but it wasn't good thoughts. And then I heard Golden, and I realized that I'm not a mistake, and that if I get past these teenage years, it will get easier. And also, I realized that I wasn't the only one who was having trouble.
Thanks Switchfoot SO much for helping me.
→Song(s): Daisy Meridith This song speaks volume. It’s such a captivating song, yet you have to listen to it a few times before you can understand it. It’s so poetic and whenever I hear "This fallen world doesn't hold your interest." I am reminded this isn’t my home. This world is not where I belong.
→Song(s): Don't Be There Aubrey When I first heard this song I thought it was absolutely gorgeous and soon realized the meaning and loved it even more. I truly think that this song could be the anthem for the teenage years of many. Yet I never really used this song to heal me until recently when my best friend and I had a fight and we still have yet to heal from the experience. After the fight I realized how unhealthy the relationship truly was and how lost I was getting myself. I always blamed everything on myself if something were to go wrong but listening to this song made me realize that the loss of a friendship is a two way street and I cant blame everything on myself. This song, even though being written over a decade ago, still rings true to this day. That is why I think Switchfoot’s music is so powerful because it means so much more and the theme is so overriding in all of life’s ways. So I thank Switchfoot for there powerful way of inspiring and comforting so many.
→Song(s): Easier Than Love Lee This song has recently taken on a whole new meaning for me. At first, I didn't really understand it.
When Jon sings "Sex is currency, she sells cars, she sells magazines," I thought "she" meant a girl. So I thought the first part was about a random girl. When I listened to it the other day, I finally realized that when he said "she", he meant sex. So it changes the meaning when you say, "SEX is currency. SEX sells cars, SEX sells magazines."
I understand this song now, and I am glad that Jon brings to people's attention that sex does sell.
→Song(s): This is Home Tom They played this song at my friends funeral. I became friends with him in High School and have known him for roughly 15 years. He died in Baghdad at the age of 31 fightning for his country.
At his funeral there was a tremendous outpouring of love and literally hundreds or people, perhaps maybe 1,000 showed up. When I heard them play this song, it all just hit me like a ton of bricks and I lost it.
I haven't been able to get the song out of my head since as I grieve for my lost friend.
→Song(s): Burn Out Bright Susieq3c This has become the goal of my life. When I think of this song along with the words of Jesus when he said "You are the light of the world" then I'm reminded that everything I've been given is to be used to bring light into a dark world, that I am to be a reflection of the true Light, and that I have a purpose on this earth that has nothing to do with bringing notice to myself.
→Song(s): Stars Brittany This song always brings the biggest smile onto my face. Even in what seems like the darkest day. My friend, a really good friend, Anthony, and I were at church together. We actually were locking up the church at night, and just had this great very intense conversation. Toward the end of the conversation we walked outside, the night air was crisp and the stars were shinning brilliantly. The words of stars became so apparent at that moment. Anthony and I decided that Stars would be our song. He was actually the first to parallel our experience right then with the Switchfoot song. Which is simply great because it was his attempt to know me more. So anytime I hear Stars I think of that night, and those feelings and just grin like no one could even know all that I'm experiencing with that song!
→Song(s): Only Hope, Golden & Daisy TJ I was going through a really difficult time when I was struggling with some depression and I kept getting in fights with my parents. I was almost anorexic at the time. I heard these songs and I would stay up until three or four in the morning listening to them repeatedly.
→Song(s): Dare You To Move Bri This is a song I can listen to when I'm upset and when I'm on top of the world. It really makes you think and has made me cry. This is such a deep song that reminds me to pick myself up when I fall. I am also reminded to pretend like everyday is brand new, separate from the rest of my life, even if the same situation is replaying. I have a chance to react differently, to act like it never happened before.
→Song(s): The Beautiful Letdown Yutsil This song speaks for me. In some cases, it has made up for the words I couldn't say. It is me. This song hit me the hardest of any song because at the time I was setting my eyes on the things of this vain, meaningless world. I was listening and it said "I don't belong here. I will carry a cross and a song where I don't belong."
That is what I need to hear. That we need to "set sight and set sail for the kingdom come". It let me know that all my letdowns were beautiful. That I was a drop out, a loser, a sinner, a failure and a fool.
It really changed me. I'm completely serious when I say that.
→Song(s): The Shadow Proves the Sunshine Susy F. This song is very special to me for 2 reasons.
1. Every time I'm down or I feel alone and left out, I listen to this song and I'm reminded that no matter how dark it may seem there's always light around. Also it shows me that Im not the only one who struggles in my walk as a Christian. I realized that my shadows only prove that there's sunshine and that there's light. And that light is the light that Jesus shines on me.
2. It was during this song when Jon held my hand. It was at my first SF concert. Jon was singing this song and he had taken out that rope of lights and I lifted my hand towards him and he grabbed it and he held it and sang as he looked at me. It was just such an awesome moment. I could write more about many other songs. Each and every single one mean something to me. That just shows what an awesome song writer Jon is.
→Song(s): Only Hope Sarah It's like a worship song for me. It's like that, and about staying in touch with what God wants for your life, and when He blesses you, thank Him for it. It's worded uniquely, too, which is why I like it so much more than your everyday praise and worship songs. Worshipping with Switchfoot Songs is a good thing.
→Song(s): The Beautiful Letdown Sarah
This song always reminds me not to get too attatched to the things of this earth.. in fact get as little attatched as possible.. because as Christians we don't belong here, we belong in Heaven with Jesus. It's amost like you want the things of the world to let you down so you lose faith in them so that you can go to heaven...
→Song(s): Let That Be Enough Shawny 'Let That Be Enough' brings me back into the arms of God. I tend to push God away whenever I get caught up in this world around me. A few months ago I started feeling empty and depressed and those feelings just wouldn't go away. Being a high school girl at the age of 17, I turned to boys and partying to make those feelings disappear. Even though I thought I was having fun, feelings of emptiness and depression were still upon me. I didn't know what to do. One weekend I decided to drive up to my mom's house to seek comfort and words of advice. My I-Pod was on shuffle and the next song that came on was 'Let That Be Enough.' I listened to it completely, then began to weep. Through this song, God showed me that He can solve all of my problems and that He is all I need. He revealed to me that He has always been by my side, regardless of how bad I mess up and no matter how much I try to push Him away, He is always there. My relationship with God is now stronger than ever, and I have Switchfoot to thank. I truly have been "Saved by Switchfoot."
→Song(s): 24, Let That Be Enough, Yesterdays Janet I didn't become a mega-fan until attending a SF concert. That was exactly 8 months after my Mom passed. We hadn't planned to go (it was a long drive and the expense of hotels, gas, and food) but through a series of circumstances, we ended up there anyway. I like to think it was my Mom's doing.
My Mom's birthday was the day before Jons. I understand he wrote "24" the day before his 25th birthday, meaning he wrote it on hers. That's why I think of her with this song.
The words, "Life is not what I thought it was twenty four hours ago" makes me think of February 26, 2006; the day she passed.
Jon also wrote "Let That Be Enough" on one of her birthdays. I especially relate to the lyrics,
"Let me know that You hear me
Let me know that You love me
And let that be enough".
Then, of course, there's the song Jon and Tim wrote for O!G, "Yesterdays."
Mom had a series of illnesses before she passed, but now she's free...but there's a part of me that will never really believe she's gone.
Though this may sound sad, it' really not. This is grief built on love. I was incredibly blessed to have her.
When I hear these songs, though I grieve, it also makes me feel somehow closer to Mom.
Thank you, Switchfoot.
→Song(s): Easier than Love Sarah Good In a relationship, it's hard not to give into stuff. Easier than Love means to me, even though I'm not IN a relationship currently, but when I do get into one, that getting to know whatever guy I'm dating and just hanging out and talking and stuff is much more important than getting the perfect kiss down or sex or anything. because, really, when I marry a guy I want him to care about me, not to be the perfect kisser. The song just kind of reminds me that doing all that stuff can be easier than loving someone for who they are and if we do it, we're all like "shoot, why'd I do that in the first place?".
→Song(s): Adding to the Noise Sarah America has so much... stuff. Technology, videos, clothes, cars, houses, way too much stuff. We're just adding to the cluttered noise of society. It's really time we turned off the song and listened to the third world countries around us who's song is a cry for help that we can't even hear because our own song is blocking it out.
→Song(s): Gone and Meant to Live Sarah These songs remind me that life is short and don't hesitate to go live for Jesus and do what He wants us to, after all, we only have today, and today is all we'll ever have.
→Song(s): The Setting Sun Lydz This song means soooooooooooo much today! Everytime I hear it it usually makes me cry. It reminds me to always hold on and that God loves me no matter what I've done, and I'm a person God created to serve Him.
The Setting Sun just touches me heart!
I can't waite to get to heaven and see Jesus and this song just makes me happy!
→Song(s): Concrete Girl Nikki I went through quite a depressed state a little earlier this year. It felt like nothing I saw or did could make me feel any better. The first time this song came up on my playlist during that time, I cried, and couldn't stop. It felt as if God were speaking through Jon to me...telling me not to break down, and have hope.
→Song(s): This is Your Life Dorine It was my first SF song, and I got it from my sis, because a classmate committed suicide (or however you say that) and she sent me the song + lyrics...and I started searching songs from SF, and more and more...And I became a fan:D This song is for me even more meaningful than I can say...I've got more meaningful songs...but this is the one who just jumped out! And every time I hear this song... I need to think about that boy.
→Song(s): Awakening Rachel Ahh....where to begin? Seriously...this song describes so much of my transformation this past summer and this past year. Even though it's not really a "weepy" song, there are times when it makes me cry. You see, it was only this year that I discovered Switchfoot, and since then I have changed more than I can say in this small space. My eyes, though not as dark as some, were still so blind to what I now plainly see. It was, and is, truly an awakening for me. Especially taken in light of this past year, which has been indescribable. I have grown closer to God in ways I had never dreamt of. My heart has been opened as I never thought it could. Light has filled my gaze where once there was darkness. Ideas that once frightened me, bewildered me, such as truly living, now fill my spirit with joy and a determination to seize each day. "Here we are now with our desperate youth and the pain, we're awakening..." I was one of those desperate youths. Still am, in fact. We all are. And yes, there's pain. We seek truth and meaning in a world that isn't ever going to give it to us. We have to look elsewhere...to the Infinite. I was the one living for nothing but deadlines...I am also the one to whom dreams started singing "out of nowhere," but I know from Whom they came. I was seized with a holy desire to live...to truly live...I wept at the lines, "I want to wake up kicking and screaming....I want to know that my heart's still beating..." I had been so caught up in nothingness, that for the first time, I became aware of my heartbeat, the life within me. Light was cast on the dark recesses of my spirit that had lain forgotten for so long...I was, and still am, awakening. My perceptions of the world around me have changed so drastically since last year, and even more since I found Switchfoot. My eyes, though still unable to see so much, have more light now then they have ever had. I'm awakening. My heart is beating. I will wake up kicking and screaming. I will live.
→Song(s): Don't Be There Darcy-Dangerous This song has always, and will always, remind me of an old best friend.
I bought the Early Years set in 2005, but hadn't ever listened to the CDs too much. My friend and I started fighting a lot, and after one fight I remembered reading on the boards that 'Don't Be There' was written about a friend who Jon was growing apart from, so I decided to listen to it. I had listened to it a few times before, but hadn't ever actually heard it. The lyrics made me realise how much I loved my friend, and how much we’d screwed up our relationship. It also made me realise that no matter how much I loved her, nor how sorry I was, our friendship would never be the same. It made me cry.
She and I are friends again, not best friends, but friends none the less, and every time I listen to it, I'm reminded of her.
→Song(s): More than Fine pink12 This song means a lot to me because every time I listen to it, I get a different message out of it.
→Song(s): Politicians Corrina Politicians means a lot to me because when I got the cd it at that time became my favorite song and every time I listen to it I'm reminded of when I got the cd. Another reason why this song means a lot to me is because it reminds me thet we are the politicians.
→Song(s): Politicians pink12 Politicians means a lot to me because it was the first song that was my favorite off of their "Nothing Is Sound" cd. And another reason why I like this song is because it reminds me that we are the politicians and that message alone means alot to me considering it's a fact.
→Song(s): Dare You To Move Corrina Robertson Dare you to move means a lot to me because it's message is telling you to move on.
→Song(s): Yesterdays, Only Hope Lydz This song means so much more then words to me. There has been too much loss in my family and it's done many awful things. I feel like this song is saying that we just need to relize that they're in Heaven now and their free to live in the presence of God. Of course we're going to feeling like that part, where that person was to us, is gone and never can be replaced, but God is there and He's chilling in Heaven right now with that special person!
Only Hope - this song helped me get from one place to another...just like Jon says it's a vehicle and it helped my get through my relationships with people I didn't like, and people I cared so deeply about. I can't really descripe WHAT this song means to me, so I'll just say thanks! MUCH! SWITCHFOOT
→Song(s): The Shadow Proves The Sunshine Bryant So many times during my day I won't think about the fact that im here in the most spoiled country in the world and that I am free. Honestly I take it all for granted. But those times of day or week, or even months I think about the fact that there are people around the world who, ironically to us, want to go to school and there are people around our world that want just a piece of bread or just a plain old tshirt and jacket to stay warm or keep dry yet I am sitting here in my comfortable room and chair with the AC on typing this, chatting, whatever else you could think of.
Despite the fact that all the fatherless, motherless, widows, and just families that don't have that much to eat, when they receive one meal, their faces shines brighter than the sun and their stomachs are filled and their hearts are warm. It's amazing how their shadows can prove the sunshine. I think we need to experience the bad before we know what is really good. Maybe we need to see that they are dying while we are living. Maybe we need to see them to love them. We are a blessed country. Don't take that for granted. I still need to learn not to take that for granted. Tell someone you love them.
→Song(s): The Shadow Proves The Sunshine Lhog One day, I was listening to my Nothing is Sound CD, and this track came on. Before, I had never really paid attention to this one, and all in all, I didn't care for it. Then it came on that one day, and when it was finished, I had to listen to it again. I replayed that one song probably 12 times. To this day, I'm still not sure why. Perhaps the foundation of hope that becomes the center of the peace. Perhaps it provided me with a mirror that I could see myself as one singing praying for hope and for God. Whatever the case, that song has since been one of my favorite tunes. A thank you to Jon for the song, and all of his good lyrical pieces.
→Song(s): Meant To Live Sarah To me it means that we were meant to live for so much more, and HAVE we lost ourselves? The world is just spinning on its axle, and if we're doing anything, we're trying to get it OFF its routine. It makes me feel really helpless and hopeless, because if people don't listen to Jesus, who CAN make them listen? And then it says we want so much more than this world's got to offer.' It's true! I want more than this world could ever provide, or even DREAM of. There are tons of other songs, but this one means especially alot to me.
→Song(s): More than Fine Sarah Good I always think about/listen to this song when I'm going through a hard day. Sometimes the members of my family can be total jerks, or I'll have a hard test in school, or I'll be going to an event where I don't really have any friends to hang out with, and I just start thinking about Jon singing "I'm not giving up, not backing down... more than fine, more than bent on getting by, more than fine, more than just OK" and it becomes my song to help me get through whatever thing it is that's getting me down.
→Song(s): All of them Maddison Hearing every single one of their songs and Jon's solo songs....well, they have actually changed my life. They have so much impact on me, and it's not because they are just a really cool band with really cool people. I know plenty of bands like that....the difference is that their songs actually mean something, they are true, and I can relate to them...every single one of them. It's ridiculous.
To sum it up....as cliche as it sounds....and it does sound really corny....but.....the songs, have changed my life.
→Song(s): Dare You to Move Madison B I think our generation is just waiting for the world to be different, to change. We want things done for us all the time, and when it comes to sharing our faith, we expect everyone else to do it. But to me this song is telling us to get up and make that difference, be that person who will do what nobody else has the courage to do. To live life for Christ and stand firm when opposition rises against you. It makes me want to be all I can be for God and hopefully make a difference in someone else's life. It reminds me that I have a second chance if I fail. It tells me to get back up and try again.
I am dared to move.
→Song(s): Burn Out Bright Sarah S. It's a really meaningful song. It has become my life goal to burn out bright for Christ, and the line 'I want to Burn Out Bright' reminds me of two things: 1, we're no way near where we could be in the level of christlike, and 2, it represents me in the 'I want to', because I know I'm not all that shiny, but I want to be, as in the song.
→Song(s): Meant to Live and Gone Sarah S. Meant to Live is a reminder that the world is not such a good place, I'm not all that good, I'm not satisfied, Etc. Gone does alot in the same direction, as it reminds me not to waste a single hour I've got, and every single minute of my life that's gone I just can't relive or go back and change, to just leave the past behind me and move on. They're all awesome songs.
→Song(s): The Blues Sarah This song always describes how i really feel whenever something really bad happens, like a friend can't keep in contact anymore...it just says "it'll be a day like this one when the world caves in." That always means alot to me, knowing that someone knows exactly how I feel.
→Song(s): Yesterdays Michelle I had a HUGE fight with one really really close friends, so that song came on my iTunes, and it was so perfect. I couldn't believe what was happening.... that how he didn't want to be my friend anymore...and how he's free now. I knoow the song is meant for someone who passed away, but the part of: so long my friend so long really hit me at how this is the best, if he doesn't wants to be with me it's the best to say goodbye and let him be free...this song really help me recover from that :/
→Song(s): Awakening and Politicians Switchfeet13 Having been a Switchfoot fan since May of 07 (not that long) I obviously don't know everything about Switchfoot, but I've heard every one of their songs and the second I heard O!G I was hooked. I'm a diehard fan. Switchfoot is a great band... their songs mean a lot. All of them are deep. But I've narrowed it down to Awakening and Politicians. After knowing how it feels to be alone in this world we call "great", I know that it couldn't be further from the truth. Politicians remind me of that... despite our efforts, we're still the politicians, the ones that are making this world fall apart.
And Awakening... It's just great. I always get lost in the lyrics and the guitars. Jon is just a great lyricist. I can really relate to it, I don't know how or why, but I can. It's about living life to it's fullest, that's what I got out of it. How we should live, like awake and alive. Live every day like it's our last. It's just a song that helps me to get through the day. Jon's lyrics match the music so well. And sometimes it seems like everything is meaningless, but Awakening tells us wrong. Live life like you want to
→Song(s): Daisy Mady "Daisy" always calms me down and reminds me to slow down, look around and sniff the flowers. We should all be like the daisy: patient, generous and adding beauty to a world of ugliness. This is what this song means to me.
→Song(s): On Fire Regi I've liked switchfoot since Learning to Breathe came out, but On Fire made Switchfoot my favorite band. When I'm feeling sad or upset about something, when I feel like something's missing in my life I hear this song and it's like I'm reminded again that there's more to live, there's more to life than what the world and the society tells us. I know HE is the Only Chance I'll take ! Really this is my favorite song out of all. But I don't hear this song only when I'm sad, also when I'm feeling happy, when I have one of those moments that everything is so clear and you regain faith in everything. All I can say is that this song moves me all the time. I'm really thankful for this song. !
→Song(s): ShadowProves the Sunshine Reg I think that this song should be heard by people who believe that God has left them or the weight of the world's on their shoulders and they ask, "What does this all mean?" and they start to say, "There is no hope."
All these problems, all this suffering only proves that there is Something out there. Something that proves the darkness and Something that shines brightly when all else fails.
This is the only song that hit me so deep, it started giving me hope. I started to think about poverty (especially in my country) and suffering and how all this could still change. That light will always be there. It will never burn out. I always remember this in times I feel like the world's going to fall apart.
→Song(s): Don't Be There Sarah Good There's a friend that I'm growing apart from and this song is just like really really there for me. It's kind of like it reminds me that letting this friend slip is really the best thing for both of us. Especially the line "don't be alarmed if I'm not there" kind of, it's like, you know, let's let this go peacefully. I don't know. This is a great song.
→Song(s): This Is Your Life Phoenix This song constantly makes me stop and look at my life. It makes me question the things I do. It makes me continue to do what I love - to try and live my dreams. Even when I'm having a really bad day, and it seems the words I write are mediocre, at best. The way I interact with people is shallow, at best. The way I live is apathetic, at best. All go way. Time again, it helps me slap myself in the face and get myself back into the things I love.
→Song(s): Daisy Lena Every song on Nothing Is Sound means so many things to me... But this one has to mean the most. I've had a love-hate relationship with this song since I first heard it on my birthday a few years back. That year and the years following it were some of the hardest of my life so far (middle school... you know how it is). But one of the worst things was that I was not in a good place in my walk with God. I had such big dreams back then, and I wanted SO badly for them to come true, that I was always terrified that maybe they wouldn't. Maybe the things I wanted most weren't the things God had in store for me. I wasn't willing to just give up my dreams and go along with whatever God had planned out for me. That inner struggle was so intense, and this song was like pouring lighter fluid and dropping a match on top of my life. "Daisy let it go. Open up your fist, this fallen world doesnt hold your intrest, doesn't hold your soul"... I really think God delivered this song to me in the only form I would listen to. Even so, I struggled, and didn't listen to this song for months at a time. The guilt caused my physical pain whenever I listened to it. I remember little by little forcing myself to hear it, forcing myself to really listen. Eventually the sheer beauty and power of this song won me over. It was a long and painful process, but this song gave me something no other song has ever given me.
→Song(s): C'mon, C'mon Jason For me, the first line always hits me deep. "You've been living life like it's a sequel." As everyone knows, the sequels are rarely better or as good than the original movie. It makes me really challenge myself to find more pieces of what the original "me" was, and to recreate that. Part of that is to forget my mistakes. Though one of the most contraversial lines in the songs (ask half the adults what they think it means), "let's not be our parents" also hits me hard. If we think about it, we can't choose how we're born. We can be born the sons and daughters of millionaires, and be living a life that we didn't earn, our parents did. Or, on the other end, we could be born in poverty, and share the same life that we didn't do anything to deserve. This to me is really a call to make your life everything that is good, but you can't rely on what you've been given without right. Real things in this life are the things you fight for, the things you hold in your hands desperately and don't let go. This song is a sobering reminder of that.
→Song(s): Ammunition Alexa Ammunition has to be possibly one of my favorite songs ever. The guitars in this song just remind me to let loose and not have worries. But the lyrics are so true. We're the ammunition because we've been blowing up and causing the issues!! The whole message of this song is that a lot of the problems in the world today were caused my ourselves.
→Song(s): This Is Your Life Michaela Ah what can I say about this song... it's amazing, it stirred something it inside me, when I heard it and Jon sang the line "this is your life, are you who you wanna be?" it felt like he was asking me personally. I sat there thinking about my life and I realized I wasn't living the life I wanted to be living, I had 'friends' that were no good to me and that weren't real friends at all. I can't thank switchfoot enough for that song.
→Song(s): Faust, Midas and Myself Fussel This song is something that pretty well depicts my philosophy, which was mainly influenced by switchfoot itself. I am so very glad to have got to know their music becuase it helped me so much to -finally- become whom I always wanted to be. And faust, midas and myself is like a ray of hope in hard times for me, because it reminds me on the nice and oure things i ever experienced with it (some minutes ago i want outside beneath the star-covered sky to sing it as loud as I could ;)).
→Song(s): The Sound In My Mouth AmyLynne The Sound In My Mouth is one of those songs that the first time you hear it, you're like, this has a great beat and rhythm, and then you dig deeper into the lyrics and are amazed. SIMM is like my accountability song - are my words building people up? are my intentions true? This song helps me check my tongue, and also aids me when I want to curse :) My relationships have been made better because of this song - oh, the power of "sorry"!
→Song(s): Awakening, Gone Sarah S. It reminds me that sometimes we need to wake up. Alot of times, we start living life like it's going to go on forever and ever, and we waste the tme that was given to us. Like, in Gone, life is a day that doesn't last for long. We sorta need to just wake up sometimes, ya know, and start LIVING like God meant for us to live.
→Song(s): On Fire BBCarter We lose our focus on what God has for us and drift to a place where we are surrounded by temporal, unimportant, disadvantageous things. But that doesn't degrade God's love or his sovreignty in our lives. The all-consuming fire of His love and Majesty are sufficient and He draws us back to Himself, renewing our hearts once again. When I get to the point where I am done trying to make it work, disgusted with my waisted time on petty things, I draw near to Him and to the humility of my weary heart, He draws near to me.
→Song(s): Love Isn't Made Andrew When I first heard this song, it kind of caught me off guard. Mainly because of the fun song I listened to before. The lyrics sung my loneliness that i didn't want to feel. Seemingly alone as I drifted off to sleep while listening to this song, it really sunk into my head. It made me think about my life, and for how young I am, made me think about you lost I can always find myself at the bottom every time I try to bring myself up. And this song will always make me realize I really can't pretend anymore. About how bad I do or don't have it or about what is inside my head. It seems to be about more than love. It seems to be everything that could ever bring
→Song(s): Faust, Midas & Myself Tiffany At first I wasn't really into this song at all, but it kept growing on me. And then I started thinking about the words, some that I didn't really understand fully. The words "what direction?" is so relatable. We all are so lost and I know that I, and probably many others, feel like I don't know where to go from here. I really like the live version of this song where Jon just keeps repeating "what direction?" It makes you think where you'll be next. And it makes me feel better that I'm not the only one that gets confused sometimes about life.
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→Sara Kelm Home has become an increasingly elusive concept as I've grown older. The cliches aren't any help: "home is where the heart is," "home is where you hang your hat," "home is where you can be yourself." What's a girl to do when her heart is torn, she hangs her hat in dozens of places, and yet feels like she can never be truly herself anywhere.
Home always meant being with my family. My family--composed of a pastor-father, a teacher-mother, and two younger siblings--they mean everything to me. For various reasons, my family moved around quite a bit when I was younger and I never really fit in at school. I was too smart and not social. I'd rather read than play on the playground. And I was easily taken advantage by more charismatic children. My family was always there for me. My siblings were my playmates, my father the source of wisdom, my mother my confidant.
We moved to Washington state the summer before I started high school, making our home in Vancouver. There I grew and became more of an adult. Finally, I graduated, and when I did so, chose my college because it was close to home yet not too close. I needed some space, but I still needed the security of going home.
That all changed when, two weeks after I started college, my father called me and with tears in his voice, said they were moving to Calgary, Alberta. I was stunned. I had known it was a possibility, but I never dreamed it would actually happen. Not only were they moving hundreds of miles away, they were moving to an entirely different country. Within two months, they were gone, and I felt more alone than I ever thought possible.
Since then, I am "homeless." I am not really a resident of Oregon (where I go to school), or Calgary (where my family lives). I have few connections to Vancouver, where I went to high school. So I am adrift, a transient with no true place to call home.
Which is why I can relate to every line of "This is Home." I do contain all of my memories inside of me, but I can never go back. No place is as I left it. And not only that. I've changed. Because of the move, I've become much more independent, used to surviving on my own. While I love my family, they cannot be my security. And I adore my friends--they've gotten me through so much--but they aren't always there for me either. All I have is my Saviour and my God, and the hope of a home someday.
There's this line in the final book of the Chronicles of Narnia, The Last Battle, where the Unicorn exclaims, "I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now." And that's what I feel. That's what "This is Home" is all about: looking forward while staying here. Someday I'll make it home, and feel more at peace and more at rest than I ever could have here. I cannot wait. Though I'm searching now, I know where I'll find my answer. And that answer can begin now, as I seek to follow my Aslan, my Saviour, as he leads me; where He is, there I will find Home.
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→~Anastacia When I first heard "This Is Home" my immediate thought was of my little sister. That may seem strange, however, my case is different than others. My little sister is six years old and lives in China. She has lived in China all of her life. We are adopting her. To me "This Is Home" truly showed me the significance of this process. For her, coming to America and starting a new life as a six year old, she will always have the memories of her time before us, her family. But coming here is a new start for her and she will become a member of this family forever. She won't go back, at least never in the same way.
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian does have many similarities to this process of adoption. Caspian is the newcomer, the one who doesn't quite "fit" yet into the group. He grows into being a part of that group and at the end, Peter hands over the reigns of Narnia to him. Lucy is the faith of the story. Always holding true to Aslan and never giving up. This Is Home signifies to me the story of faith in adoption, created for a place you never knew and coming Home.
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→Sarah Good Wow. it means so much.
i think one of the main things is about heaven. the line "created for a place i've never known" really resonates with me. it kind of reminds me that though this earth is way cool, it's not where i'm going to be for the rest of my life, and when i get to heaven someday i'll be able to sing "this is home, and it's finally where i belong" at the very top of my lungs.
"i've got my heart set on what happens next." it's a goal of mine to do everything while remembering that someday i'm going to go to heaven and talk to God and he's going to remind me of everything that i've ever done in my life, both the good and bad things. you know? i mean, if you sin or something that's going to be on your record when you get to heaven. keeping in mind that that's where i'm going to end up... in Heaven and before God... i don't want a bunch of bad stuff making me feel all guilty.
it also reminds me that God has me where i am on the earth for a specific reason. sometimes i think to myself, man, my parents are annoying and my brothers don't get me and all my friends have cooler stuff than i do... and then it's like... this is home. God has me where i am for a reason. my life is where i'm supposed to be, not in my friend's life or somebody else's. this is home.
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→Amanda Aiken well, the first time I listened to it, as a sampler off Amazon, it immediately hit home as perfect for the movie, as well as being quite relevant to me right now ... I'm just at the end of my first year as a student, and I'm in that awkward transistion stage between living at home and surviving on my own. I don't really know what the next few years hold, I'm still discovering that.
Because I won't see the movie until the 19th of June, I've only listened to the full song once. I don't want to know it (or any of the soundtrack songs) until after the first time I see the film. But it's a wonderful song and I can't wait until I can listen to it over and over again ... !
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→Bryant This is Home is such a hard song, i think, to relate to. i think how this song relates to me, or what it means to me, is that what i've done in the past will always be in my memory and it's my choice to bring it up again or not. it's about who i was and who i now am and i can't and won't go back to how it was. "created for a place i'll never know" is my favorite part of the song because it reminds me of a passage from john 17, "they are not of the world, even as i am not of it". it just tells me that i was created into the world, but i am not of the world. i am part of the kingdom of heaven. God's kingdom. the chorus rings well with the passage as well. This is home, and it is where i belong but yet still not of the world. its just my home until i am taken into heaven. i think that pretty much sums up the songs meaning to me.
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→Vicki Herdy This Is Home reminds me of the closing night of our school plays. We have a tradition called senior circle. During it, the seniors get up and talk about the year, and leaving, and drama, and family. During the course of a production, we all become a very close-knit group, especially if the same people have been in the same plays for years. To us, drama and the people in it are a place where we can always go for comfort and acceptance. We can talk to anyone in drama, and they will listen attentively and encouragingly until we are finished. We don't judge each other, and we care for everyone. The members of drama are another family. A home away from home. At senior circle, the seniors talk about these kinds of things. It is their special moment. Even after they leave, we try to stay in touch with them as they go to far off colleges. Underclassmen are always sad to see the seniors leave because drama is a little piece of heaven, with love and kindness at the root. We know that it will never be the same without them, but it will be a new year and a new experience. No two years are ever the same. They are each different and special, a unique experience that will never happen again. I believe that once you are in Drama, you are changed forever. You become a more kind and open minded person. When I graduate, I plan to play this song for my family in drama and remind them to keep acting, dreaming, and loving.
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→Dylan Gregory 'This Is Home,' to me, is the point where you reach that light at the end of the tunnel. Jon writes in the song 'created for a place I'll never know,' this place, being that light, is so incredibly unimaginable, it can't be compared to anything we could ever know or comprehend! People that are searching for something to fill their lives, whether they try to fill it with drugs, sex, or alcohol, are shown there's only one thing that can fill they're emptyness, that there's only one place that they can call home: to be in the arms of Christ. After all of your questions and after your decision is made to not return to the life you've been living, you see that this is it. You've come this far. You know there's no going back to the misery. You've unearthed the belief that was there all along; what was calling you back from the emptyness. You've taken the plunge into Him. This songs is a reminder of what we, as Christians, have, and what the searching people are looking for: a true Home in Christ. This is home.
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→Abigail Carr This Is Home is the ultimate redemption and longing song i've heard from Switchfoot thus far. It speaks of not just the Pevensie children going back to Narnia, but rather we as Christians and believers in Christ one day going "home" to Heaven. We were all created for a purpose here on Earth, but eventually the outcome of it all is a place we have never seen or know of. one that we only here from brief references and allusions.
As a believer in Christ I have seen much in my brief walk. I've pushed things to and past the limit...I will never regain my pure innocence, but I have come back to the always open and loving arms of a Savior. Within that place and no where else that I "search on my own" I can find peace and a Home.
I've done things I never thought I would.
I've seen things I never thought I'd see.
What and who I was before that time will never be achieved again. All I can do is move on.
If I try to do it on my own...I'll fail. I'll fall. It will never be done or completed. But with the help of the One who I can put all my life's breath into and who gives it to me...I can find a life changing miracle that not only affects me but others through me.
This song expresses all those thoughts that I have within 3 minutes and 50 seconds of sheer gorgeous ballad melody and lyrical genius.
Also I have read the Narnia books and seen the old movies that were British versions. growing up knowing the stories and the double meanings in C.S. Lewis's writings and the screenplays portrayed...I think that this song fits perfectly.
It is sincerely difficult NOT to fall in love with this song after hearing it the first time.
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→Sarah Metzgar This Is Home is taken in a very personal way to me.
My dad being in the military, we're never somewhere long. Never lived somewhere long enough to call it 'home town' or whatever. This is Home gives me a sense that I really have a home, a home in God. In all reality no one should make earth a permanent home. After moving here in August, moving again in a month, This is Home will be treasured through good and bad times.
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→Jacqui This Is Home means a lot more to me than I can put into words. It makes me wonder and think and dream and live in a deeper sense. I feel like Jon put a lot of thought into the words, and it came out perfectly. The way he says it all eloquently portrays the Chronicles of Narnia in a short 3 minute 58 second song... Maybe the earth isn’t my home. Maybe I’m made for a place that I could never dream of. Maybe I’m working to get there. Or maybe this all is just preparation before I go to the place itself. Either way, I know that I am not created for this earth. I’m not created for these chains that seem to hold me down every day. I’m created for the skies. I’m created for the heavens. I’m created for a place I’ve never known. And knowing this keeps me going everyday.
To be reminded of all of these things by a simple song is honestly amazing.
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→Vi Ling Chee This is a no "I shed my tears listening to this song till my home flooded". Too much of hyperbole. Before I heard the song, I told my friend, who updated me about the song,"Oh my god, lovely title! Switchfoot done it again...never fail to leave me in awe". When I heard the song, I realize nothing matters. Not Switchfoot, not how much Drew's guitar or Romey's amazing piano intro sucked me in so badly, not Narnia, not Prince Caspian, but everything that I've done as long as I live. This song, reflected my rebelious actions and no matter how much I try to run away from home, I'll still turn my back and start pacing back to where my home is. Everything in this song... really mirrored how my life was for the past years on what kind of person I've been. I've done faults, I've been through more than I can imagine and I've faced problems. Every line in the lyrics, sequenced exactly how things were and how screwed up I was in the past. How I can't unwind what happened and that I refuse to turn back time, to face those idiots who turned my life into a pile of garbage, how those experiences I've been through would prepare me for the future and what else I could face.
Most importantly, the line "We're not alone" screams the meaning of what it's trying to portray. This Is Home makes a perfect summary to those who felt like they've been through shit and not know what awaits for them. I might be stupid enough not to realize the sunken meaning of this song but physically, I know that whenever I'm in deep trouble, I turn back home. When my ex cheated on me, I turned to my siblings. When I had fights or disagreements with idiotic classmates, I turn to my housemates. Comforts I have tells me that I'm not alone. And throughout the good 3 minutes and 51 seconds of the song, I had flashbacks of the past three years I've been living. Now that I'm back home with my family, leaving all those trashes and lunatic experiences I had, I proudly told a friend,"You know what, Liz? I'm glad I'm home...seriously."
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→Jake Detwiler Several months ago, back in July and August of 2007, I was struck with possibly the worst dilemma I will ever find myself in. Suffering from depression for six long months led to terrifying bouts of self-injury, frustration, addiction to medication, and a suicide plot. All whilst being stuck in the turbulent age that is fourteen years old. By the grace of a dear friend (and some higher power, I'm sure) I was able to pull out of it all. I will not try to pretend here that "This Is Home" managed to do all of that for me, no. The song was not even played until after I made the commitment to turn my life around. But every time I hear it, I'm reminded of the struggles I had and will carry with me for the rest of my life - the scars that plague both my wrist and my mind. "I've got a brand new mindset/I can finally see the sunset" is nothing less than a direct anthem to me. I know that I'm in repair, and for the longest time I was disappointed, discouraged, andunsatisfied. I will be for years to come, there is nothing temporary about trauma. I'm pretty sure I'm coming to realize that my place is in that state of not being satisfied - it makes me want to progress, to keep moving forward, to find something worth hanging onto and see that sunset. This is my home.
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→Nicole Green Hearing "This Is Home" takes me back to my experiences as a college Sophomore. For many people, college is a time to discover yourself, to decide what you want to do with the rest of your life and (for many people) find the person you share the rest of your life with. It has been a challenge being back home for the summer with my family, for, although I love them dearly, the only progression I feel that I'm making in life right now is through my work, and there are limited places I can go with a background in grocery store checking. That being said, I've listened to "This Is Home" a lot recently and I think of the faces and places that I've encountered these past eight months and how they have had a massive impact on my life.
I've always had some trouble fitting in with other groups. Maybe I was too reserved, or maybe it was my lack of freedom and unlimited access to a car, I don't know. However, for the first time in my life I have found a place I can call home, and it kills me to be away from it. There's nothing too impressive about Provo, Utah, land of the Brigham Young University Cougars and green jell-o, but for me, it's the place where I finally feel like I have a group of people I fit in with, who accept me and (heaven forbid) still keep in contact with me, though we're 800 miles apart from each other. They have always been there for me, through the ups and downs, and have been the best councilors and friends a person can have.
College has been a place where I have discovered myself, where I have pushed myself to the limit and found both joy and sorrow. To me, Home is a place where you find yourself and is a safe haven against the hardships in life. I'm glad to have found my "home," for the time being, though for a while it is very far away. I'm glad that "This Is Home" is a song that helps me recall the good times and smiling faces of those whom I care deeply about, and it helps to get me through the difficult times.
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→Sara Rogers "This is Home" is a song that really speaks to my heart. When i first listened to it, i thought of when i became a Christian, and how "i can't go back...back to how it was". I think about all of my past mistakes, and present mistakes that i make everyday when i hear that song--but i also think of the hope that i have in enstilling a life in a solid faith, which will be "home." What this song also means to me is that i finally have a place where i belong..a place where i am meant to be,i am who i was meant to be, doing what i was meant to do.
And that is such a major part of my life right now. "This Is Home" really does mean a lot to me--not just because of the catchy piano intro [even though it's awesome],the soothing vocals of Jon Foreman [even though they melt my face off...in a good way]- but that the lyrics, and the deeper meaning that i can apply to where i am. "This is Home" means more to me than anyone will ever know.
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→Lydia James The line "Created for a place I've never known" really hit home because I see it as we are created for Heaven, and even though we've never seen it or been there, we still have the longing for it because that is what we were destined for.
I liked the line that said "I've seen the enemy, and I won't go back, back to how it was." I fell as if it's talking about how once we realized who our enemy is, Satan, we don't want to go back to our non-Christian lifestyle.
The last part of the second stanza is just filled with hope, with moving on, because we're not alone. We have Jesus with us, and with him, we'll pull through.
I was really touched by the chorus because I see it as saying that when you have Aslan, when you have Jesus, the physical home doesn't matter, you are home with the King of Kings, because home is where the heart is.
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→Sarah Smith This is Home is a song that may mean different things to different people, so I'll just try explaining what this song means to me personally.
About a month back, my nana died. She was my last grandparent alive. In short succession, my dad went to go to her funeral, my mom put me on a diet, and my sister moved out. It happened in all less than two months.
My personal journey has been for the past two years to find out who I really was. I changed continually, and then I, being a Switchfoot famatic, immediately got my hands on This is Home, right when I was discovering my real personality, finally.
I know this song extremely well, and it's become my favorite song, not just because it's a really great song but because it represents so many things to me. Double bonus that it's by Switchfoot, huh?
I asked myself question after question after question, that being lived for me in 'After all my searching, after all my questions,' and I was extremely discontented with my parents, with my brothers, and angry with my sisters for almost no reason, but then I started changing. 'I can't go back, back to how it was.'
A few weeks previous, my attitude took a change for the better. Switchfoot's helped me through so many things with their great songs, but this is a whole new way that they have helped me.
This is home, now I'm finally where I belong.
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→Joshua Frederick This is Home means a lot to me. As a military brat and a missionary kid, I move a lot. I've never really had a "home". A place that I've grown up in all my life, I've never had that. I've never stayed in a house for longer than five years. And that was just as a military brat, as a missionary kid it gets worse on a different side. Now not only do not have a "home", but I don't really fit in anywhere either. In Asia, where my parents are ministering, I'm an American, a foreigner. No matter, how well I speak the language or how much I feel "at home" here I can't fit in. And back in the States, "I've got my memories but I can't go back to how it was". So, it's like I can't fit in in either country, I can't be at home anywhere. And as a teenager, I'm longing "for a place of my own", a place where I fit in. A home. But I've finally realized that when I was searching for my home, I was basing it on whether people accept me or not. I wouldn't consider it a "home" because the people wouldn't accept me, because I'm not one of them. It doesn't depend on that though, my true home is wherever God wants me to be. It could be in the States or in Asia or wherever, as long as God wants me to be in that specific place it is my home.
And I love the last verse of this song, it is my favorite because it sums up where I am now.
And now after all
My searching
After all my questions
I'm gonna call it home
I got a brand new mindset
I can finally see the sunset
I'm gonna call it home
Now I know
Yeah, this is home
I've come too far
Now I won't go back
This is home
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→Ray I've loved reading, writing, and watching movies that were of the fantastical nature for a long time. But I've also been very picky with what I enjoy. For me to enjoy a story no matter if it's one I wrote or something from someone else if I can't feel the characters and put myself in their place it's not believable to me and I have trouble enjoying it. Stories that I get into I find rest in. It's refreshing to be somewhere else doing something so out of the norm that I'll remember it forever.
I know everyone's unique and that's supposed to be a good thing, but most of the time I feel so different than everyone around me that no one understands me. In fantasy worlds anything can happen and I can find a place where what/who I am is just what the doctor ordered(not that I'm the hero. I'm hardly ever that, but that's a long story).
Narnia is one of the few worlds that I can really indulge myself in and be a part of that world. This is Home to me makes me feel like I'm there with the children and Caspian and Aslan.
"Belief over misery
I've seen the enemy
And I won't go back
Back to how it was"
Many times I daydream that I'm in Narnia and all the sudden my problems go away. It's about something so much bigger than finding money for college or keeping my brother and sister from fighting. All the sudden I'm fighting an enemy that doesn't just threaten me, but everyone I love as well. People always feel awkward around me when I start opening up because I come in a package that no one expects. So I keep quiet and the again the fantasy world is a place of release. I can find someone to talk to in that world that won't look at me funny or avoid talking to me. But then I realize that I'm standing over a desk with a dusty rag in my hand not cleaning the furniture like I should be. Reality sets back in, I feel like a weight has been put on my shoulders, and I wish I didn't have to come back.
"I've been searching for a place of my own
Now I've found it
Maybe this is home
Yeah this is home"
This is Home is really my life story. I am most at home in my own little world that no one else knows about. There I really feel at home.
Created for a place I'll never know
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→AmyLynne For me, This is Home is quite literally my theme song for a lot of different reasons.
"I've got my memories
They're always inside of me
But I can't go back
Back to how it was"
In elementary school and in junior high, I was teased and bullied beyond belief. From kindergarten to 8th grade, I had no friends, I was a social outcast, and I was called names, physically and emotionally abused by my peers. I finally had enough in the summer after 8th grade, and after much deliberation, got into a private high school a week before freshman year. I've got the memories of that public school experience, haunting me, and I can't go back. I'll never forget, but I'll never go back.
"I believe you now
I've seen too much
But I can't go back
Back to how it was"
I believe now God put me in public school for a reason, to challenge my faith and to challenge everything I knew about living and existence, even at that young age. I've seen too much hurt, too much pain, too many awful things. I can't go back.
"Created for a place I've never known"
This life... oh, it's so fragile! We were all created in God's image and we lost it all. We failed miserably. We don't know heaven, but we were made to be there, and God wants us there desperately.
"This is home
Now I'm finally where I belong
This is home
I've been searching for a place of my own
Now I've found it
Maybe this is home
Yeah, this is home"
I go to a Christian, private high school now. It is home for me. It's so much better than where I was, where my past was. I'm finally where I belong, I've been searching for this place forever, and I've found it.
"Belief over misery
I've seen the enemy
But I can't go back
Back to how it was"
For me, I've got to put my beliefs in God over my memories of misery. I've seen Satan working in the strangest of ways, in the most obvious and most subtle ways, but he's always there.
"I've got my heart set on what happens next
I've got my eyes wide
It's not over yet
We are miracles
But we're not alone"
I'm watching the future, making sure nothing else happens again like what happened in elementary and junior high. Oh, if I could only sit down with you and describe everything! The pain, the misery, the agony of those years of being helpless, being alone, having no friends, and being purposely hurt and abused by the people of my very same age. I've been told my friends can still see the pain in my eyes. They weren't with me then, but they know me now, and they still see the shards of that pain in me. It won't ever go away.
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→Liz This is Home in many ways, reflect how I've always regarded music as the backbone to my life. Although in several different views, this song could be a spiritual song to many (given the background of Switchfoot) but the thing about Jon's writing is that no doubt it may be intended to be spiritual, but the genius in Jon is that he writes in such a way that even for the non-believers, you're able to interpret the song in your very own way. Which is how I view music as a poignant role in my life and consequently, it is always a place I call home, - when I'm in my own zone - everytime I listen to music. Listening to This is Home makes everything ten-fold times better and when the chorus catches in, you can't help but sing out "This is home..now I'm finally where I belong" out loud and proud. Sometimes, after a hard day at school/college/work you tend to feel that all your energy has been drained out. When you hear Jon singing, "I can finally see the suuuunnnset" you can definitely hear the relief in his voice and every time I listen to this song after a long day, it cheers me up completely to know that I am home once more where my heart belongs to the sound of music ringing in my ears. And that, is the beauty that lies in this song along with Jon's song writing.
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→Emily Mallick Wow "This is Home" really does hit home. Every time I listen to it I always get that warmth inside. "My home" is the place no matter what you become or what you do the people there will always love you and never forget about you. No matter what happens, When you return home they are welcoming you back with open arms. Even though you are excited to leave for a while but when you return you end up missing it and you can't wait to see all your family and friends. Though sometimes I don't enjoy my home , I could never forget about it. When I just look around i tell myself "Yea, This is Home"
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→Desiree The first time I heard this song, I caught onto how Disney-ish it sounded and how the tune was perfect for the movie. Then when the lyrics started being figured out, the simple yet profound meaning of the song rushed through me like a breath of fresh air.
I've got my memories
They're always inside of me
But I can't go back
Back to how it was
I believe now
I've come too far
No I can't go back
Back to how it was
Sometimes our past seems to have great hold on us. Whether good or bad, my memories are an important part of me, and it's tempting to just dwell on the past or to return to how I used to be like because it seems more attractive. But I am a new creation, I have a new free nature, and there's no turning back.
Created for a place I've never known
This is my favourite line, and it sums up the whole mood/intent of both the song and The Chronicles of Narnia. It's a line of longing, of dreaming beyond this life. We all have this sense that we're made to last forever. Why? Why do I have eternity planted in my heart?
And I got my heart set on what happens next
I got my eyes wide
It's not over yet
We're miracles
And we're not alone
The second part of the second verse is powerful because there's a strong sense of anticipation, not only in the words but also in the staccato feel of the music. It reminds me to "set [my heart] on things above... not on earthly things", to look forward to the life to come because there's so much more in store. Also, this reminds me that I'm not just drifting and existing, but actually a miracle. It's a miracle that someone would know how many hairs there are on my head and care for me enough to have a plan to give me abundant life, so I should be eagerly waiting on direction and the next step to take.
And now, after all my searching
After all my questions
I'm going to call it home
I got a brand new mindset
I can finally see the sunset
I'm going to call it home
This is home
Now I'm finally where I belong
Where I belong
Yeah this is home
I've been searching for a place of my own
Now I've found it
Maybe this is home
Yeah this is home
After the meandering and reflections of the verses, the chorus and bridge (both musically and lyrically) explode into a celebration of finally finding what we're looking for. To me, this is how I imagine myself feeling when the eternal kingdom comes. Sweet relief, pure joy. There's no place like home.
→Song(s): This Is Home
→Sarah Erickson In this world of emptiness and desolation, so much is held on high as beautiful, and yet so little has any true beauty. In this place that we so often thoughtlessly refer to as 'home', we are not ever truly at home. "I've got my memories They're always inside of me But I can't go back Back to how it was..." As I think back to times now growing faded and dim in my memory, I realize I am forgetting things I thought I would never forget. What is remembering? Is it our foolishness that we try to remember where we have come from, or is it one of the only wise things we do, though not out of our own intentional wisdom? I have seen so many bright days which have left sweet imprints on my life and on who I am; yet I have sat in so many shadows that have changed me so deeply as well. I cannot go back to where I was or who I was; but I cannot forget the things that have molded me into who I am now and who I am becoming.
"Created for a place I'll never know, This is home Now I'm finding where I belong...I've been searching for a place of my own, now I've found it," I do not belong in this hollow world; my real home is a place much farther away, out of my reach for this brief moment that is my life. How long and far we search to find our meaning, our place of belonging...yet it is only in Him that we can find those things. It is only in Him that our feelings are validated and our worth is proved; it is only in Him that we can ever belong and be at Home.
"Belief over misery I've seen the enemy And I won't go back Back to how it was..." Do we ever wonder what the words that we say really mean; do we listen to the words in songs; do we look at the leaves that hang from our fragile branches still? We must seem so foolish to Him, sitting down here childishly worrying about what people think of us, all of our petty wants, how to be succesful and get all the right answers to all the wrong questions. And yet He still loves us so, cares about us and wants the very best for us, even though we blindly think we know what that best is and so pursue the wrong things. How miserable the falling short of our seekings leave us. How clear the enemy's face has been. How dark the shadows and how far away hope has seemed. We must never go back...I can never go back to the things I have done, I must seek to belong only in the Home that I have been given by my Lord. There I will not be alone.
→Song(s): This Is Home
→Samantha Adams I certainly feel blessed by what my earthly home has offered me, and I treasure the memories that linger in every corner of its well-worn walls. But frequently, I am tormented by the familiar sense that there must be more to my reliable existence, and conforming to oblivious complacency ceases to be an option. Battling fear along with hopelessness has been a lifelong struggle for me, one which I have yet to overcome. This home will never be able to fully satisfy my insatiable thirst for belonging, meaning, and purpose. As C.S. Lewis so gracefully penned in Mere Christianity, "If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world". Too often, I find myself plagued by the bitter demon of doubt, trapped in a cycle of fear and numbness. At times, I feel as if my questions concerning my purpose and existence are simply too nemerous, too overwhelming, questions that are inexplicable as to why they arose in the first place and simply too disconcerting and complex to even hope for an answer. How do we explain this yearning, this sense that we were made for another world? Since the beginning of time, humanity has sought after the ultimate meaning of our existence, often failing miserably. Often, I too find myself falling into the familiar trap of numb monotony, eventually leading to nothing but bitter despair. I search for meaning and hope in all the wrong places until I am so exhausted by my futile and frantic quest for purpose that I am back where I started, sinking further and further into desperation and misery.
When I first heard the song This is Home, it was difficult to comprehend all the sentiment that I experienced, and it is more difficult yet to express. The song is timeless in its message, and it possess a unique, ethereal quality; to me, much of its appeal is derived from its ability to convey that seemingly inexplicable longing that so many struggle with. It faithfully reminds me that it is really all about perspective, and it is only when I train my mind to continually look forward to my eternal home that I find what I am looking for. Besides the sheer beauty and uplifting message of the song, it reminds me of some important truths. Jon’s voice seems to complement the message of the song especially well; everyone can undoubtedly identify with the longing and sincerity in his tone.
Perhaps that is why I find the song to be so especially dear and cherished to me; it offers me the gift I so desperately and unknowingly seek: hope. In a sense, it is somewhat encouraging to be unable to rid myself of the suffocating blanket of doubt, this feeling that there is more to this life, for it has a purpose, and it proves that there is indeed an eternal home for me. I cannot possess a desire for something that does not exist. Once I stop pursuing the worldly, and focus on the eternal, I receive what I most desperately desire: peace, meaning, belonging, hope, and most importantly, reassurance that my heavenly home, unfathomable in splendor, awaits me. In a world where chaos and pain are constant companions, it is indeed a great comfort to be sure of my future in a better world, in the home I was truly created for.
Nothing, I believe, is more comforting than that.
→Song(s): This Is Home
→Brianna This song means a lot to mean. I think it can speak to everyone. Every one of us human beings is searching for a deeper meaning than to just exist. We want to find a place where we fit in, where we belong. At the beginning, Jon talks about how "I've got my memories/Always inside of me/But I can't go back/Back to how it was". I like these lines. It says that we always carry our memories, our past around with us. We'll never relive our past; we'll never change what we did or said. It's our past, where we've been. We can only look forward. I think we can have multiple "homes" in our lives; not just literal, physical homes, like a house. Home is also family, people who you love and care about, whether they're biological family or good friends. Home can be a place or it can be a feeling. Home is where we're accepted for who we are and we have nothing to prove. "We are miracles" is true; none of us deserve to be here, but we are. We need to earn our lives, to find our place and give back. I think that this song is about just that, figuring out where we're supposed to be and how to get there. It's also about being happy with where you are and realizing that wherever you are in the world, in life, as a person -- it's your home at the moment. It might change a few years, a few weeks down the road. But for now it's home. We can all relate to this song. We can all find our home.
→Song(s): This Is Home
→Regi This is home.
For me is about taking a step forward in our lives. Sometimes we want to look back and turn around to the way it was simply because it's easier to stay the same but at the same time we know we can't do it because it's time to change and it's time to make things better.
So that process of making a difference in your life and turn things upside down for good it's tough..there will be more times when you wanna give up and you will always have your memories of how things were and how you would like to go back in time but when you finally make up your mind and you choose to keep on moving.. it becomes one of those moments in wich everything is so clear and suddenly you find yourself full of inspiration, hope and love, it's almost a magical moment because you know for sure that you are where you are meant to be and where you wanna be. You have to hold on tight to those moments because they don't come to our lifes often , and even though they are short they are more than enough to make a change in our lifes, inside and out.
Home has turned into such a beautiful concept because it's not a home you can actually see it's more like feeling or a state of mind. You feel it in your heart and mind you are where you belong and of course you are not alone. There is always Someone who lifts you up every time you fall, Someone who has given you life and it's right beside you every step of the time and that is what gives you the strenght to chase your dreams and to overcome any obstacle you may have to deal with.
→Song(s): This Is Home
→Isai This is Home to me means of me finally reaching a goal that I have wanted to reach and when I am at that point I am very excited. I've been searching for this place where I can be at peace at and now I'm home, somewhere I belong. This is where i belong the goal I have been yearning for and after all my searching I have arrived and this is my home. This is the moment I am at peace.
→Song(s): This Is Home
→Juan David Alarcon Well, when I listen This is home, I feel a lot of things. I think about a kid who's searching anything, but he doesn't know that he search protection, and I've thinked that this kid are us(me) and we don't know what means home. We go in the life confused, and searching anything, and I think that there is a only place that we could call "home", and is our God, and He is the only place where we can belong, and well, this is the place that we search. And when we are afraid and confused and tired we can go to home, no?, God is home, for me, and that is meant this is home for me.
My favorite verse is the following:
we're miracles
and we're not alone It's a beautiful song of switchfoot
→Song(s): This Is Home
→Hannah Chong There was one moment in my life that occurred a year ago; a moment that I wished of going back to but couldn’t as things had changed. I found trouble of letting go of that part of my life and I constantly replayed the memories in my head. No matter what I did I could not get my mind off it. It was an uncontrollable and inescapable feeling that completely weighed me down and took over me. This is Home was the song that renewed my hope and completely changed my perspective on various things. I was inspired by Jon’s words and it made me realise that rather than dwelling in the past, I should have looked towards the future and anticipated the bigger and better things that were yet to unfold in my life. It’s been a year now since I have been struggling with this issue, and I’ve tried so hard to let go. I’ve fought and battled with my feelings and I’ve done everything within my ability possible.
Through this is home I’ve realised that “I’ve come too far” and that I shouldn’t still be dwelling in the past but I should “believe in now”, and look forward to the future rather than looking back at the past. I should have “belief over misery” and believe rather than being unhappy and miserable about my situation. I should believe I can overcome this obstacle in my life. This is home, this is where I belong. The present is my home, this very moment I’m in is my home; now is where I belong, not the past. “I’ve got my memories, they’re always inside of me but I can’t go back, back to how it was.” I’m not saying that I’ve completely let go, that the pain has truly all subsided, because of this song. What it has done is, that it has brought me back to life, has given me the ability to stand back up on my feet again and has given me hope.
I’m sure many other people can relate this to at least one situation in their life as well. Whether it may be a loved one who passed away to even something as small as failing an exam at school, we should not be dragging the pain, the worries and doubts that were created from the past with us now in the present, but we should be waiting for the imminent events that are waiting for us ahead.
→Song(s): Politicians
→Lindsay Well right now it's the whole "This guy for President...no, This guy for President, he will make your life better!" and all that junk. They are all politicians and half of everything that goes on w/ these campaigns destroys our country. The line "Watching for my sky to get torn apart" because of the crap that goes on we bend and brake people one by one and Jon was brilliant when he wrote this song because it describes the world perfectly.
→Song(s): Meant to Live
→Jessamine This song really helped me through tough times. We WERE meant to live for so much more, and the question is have we really lost ourselves?
→Song(s): C'mon, C'mon
→Marcus Baker I can sit and listen to this song and dream. I love listening to it because every time I hear the Lines:
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon,
Lets not be our parents;
C'mon, c’mon, c'mon,
Lets follow this through;
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon,
Everything's waiting.
Let us rise with the wings of the dawn
when everything's new…
…Let These Songs awaken the dawn.
Let us Breathe every breath
like a gift to be kept;
Let us breathe it all in 'till it's gone
I hear that line and I think "Dang, there is a whole world out there to explore. I shouldn't be sitting here dreaming about it. I need to get out and do it.” The song is so overwhelming to me. It just encompasses all of my dreams and hopes into one song. It sound cheesy, but it makes me want to change the world. No lie. Thank God for Jon Foreman's hands and his lyrical ability. He could have spoken the lyrics and I would have fallen in love with him because of it.
→Song(s): Faust, Midas, and Myself
→Marcus Baker Lately, I've been struggling with the fact that I'm growing up (I'm going into high school this year), and I'm going to have a lot of tough decisions. I've been finding myself more and more scared of the future and what's gonna happen. I can't control every little part of my future. But when I listen to that song, I identify with the line:
What direction? Death or action!
Life begins at the intersection.
It made me think that I may be scared to death of facing my future, but I'm gonna control what I can. I have my whole future ahead of me. Life is about to begin.
→Song(s): Stars
→Jeffrey Swindoll Perspective has always been a thing that I have been thinking of. Whenever I try to understand life or a story or a philosophy, I try to view it through an uncommon, but valid, perspective. Stars means that to me. Stars means that even through chaotic times we have to step back and view things at a different perspective... or, as the way Foreman says it- looking at the stars.
→Song(s): Meant to Live
→JDannyl To me meant to live means we all need to just be what God wants to be and try to be our best. Because in the bible it says none of us are good people, "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." It also says if you break one commandment you've broken them all. So now I’m trying to be a much better person.
→Song(s): The Shadow Proves the Sunshine
→Elina I think this song is my favorite Switchfoot song, because it reminds me that even in times of struggling, pain, or sorrow, God is always there, shining His light on us. It reminds me how much God loves us all, and He is with us always.
→Song(s): The Beautiful Letdown
→JrodSong I love this song. First, the title itself and the fist couple lines tells us that there is something beautiful
about our failures. I can promise you that without my failures that I would have never have been as close to GOD as I am... I would probably be still seriously depressed, but I have the feeling that GOD used even the mistakes in my life to bring me closer to HIM. Secondly, this reminds me that I do not belong to this world. I belong somewhere else. I am just a travel trying to make the best of his journey on this place called earth.Finally, I love the line "Easy living, you're not much life in name; easy dying, you look just about the same." (from memory, sorry for any errors). I love that line because living the easy life for myself is just a form of being dead. I want to give up my easy life and take out on the hard but rewarding path Christ has set before me.
→Song(s): golden, only hope, shadow
→cecelia.
These songs mean the world to me. So often I find myself looking to myself or things around me for answers. When
I do that, I get very let down. I get angry easy, get in fights, etc. these songs remind me that my hope is not in people, things, or the world, but in God. Also, whenever things are really rough in my life, spiritually or physically, these songs encourage me. I would get in fights with my dad often and feel like total crap, then shadows or golden would start playing and my mood perked up. I cannot explain the amount of gratitude I have for switchfoot.
→Song(s): Dare You To Move
→Michael This song always reminds me that i need to move. (hehe no pun intended). It reminds me that my life is a gigantic portrait for everyone to look at. Whether good or bad. I can change it, but it is not easy. There is effort in moving and getting. "Welcome to thhe fallout..." all of a sudden I just got up and someone pushed me back down telling me that i'm not good enough. But i need to fight that and seek redemption and forgiveness right from where i am. SALVATION IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR EYES. All we need to do is look!
I DARE ALL OF YOU TO MOVE!
→Song(s): Yesterdays
→Jim The first time my mom heard this song, she was in tears. See, she has a friend who might die any day now, and the lyrics just relate to her so much.
No one knows how long she has to live; it could be a year, a month, a week, a day. Whoever Jon and Tim wrote this for, they clearly felt what my mom feels right now. Even though her friend isn't gone yet, she might as well be.
The illness has weakened her body and mind, and she is nothing like what she was.
The lines that my mom can really connect with right now can be found in the chorus: "I remember you like yesterday, yesterday, I still can't believe you're gone, I remember you like yesterday, yesterday, And until I'm with you, I'll carry on."
Thank you, Switchfoot. Thank you for connecting with fans where they are. Thank you for making songs like "Yesterdays."
→Song(s): Golden
→Christine The first stanza probably has described a moment in every girl's (and boy's) life; whether its pain from a broken
heart or life hasn't been going in their direction. I adore this song because its a reminder of how God sees everyone. We are His golden children. Just because we are broken inside doesn't mean we can't keep living for Him. Being in pain and hurt, means that we are even better candidates of spreading His love, because we know how healing His grace and love is. This song just lifts me up and gives me encouragement to do something in my life that can impact others.
→Song(s): The Blues
→Erin Sometimes when I'm feeling depressed, I'll listen to this and remember that I'm not the only one who's felt this way. Jon's voice and lyrics are so poignant and beautiful in this song!
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