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Broken Paradise
I don’t know about you, but I grew up on Switchfoot.
They’ve been a constant soundtrack in the background on my life for the last 25 years.
Jon Forman is one of the great songwriters of our day.
Don’t believe me, check out his solo albums.
One theme that has been constant in the music of Switchfoot is the longing for a better home.
A realization that the world is broken but there is hope in the Kingdom to come.
They’ve always been realists but they've not been nihilists.
The’ve always recognized the vanity, meaninglessness, and emptyness of seeking fulfillment in this world, but that reality has always pushed them to look up, to lift their eyes to the hills from wence commeth their help.
Songs like Meant to Live, Gone, The Beautiful Letdown, Where The Light Shines Through, Where I Belong, I could go on, all reinforce this theme.
In one of their more playful takes Foreman sings
“Gone, like Frank Sinatra, like Elvis and his mom
Like Al Pacino's cash, nothing lasts in this life
Gone, my high school dreams are gone
My childhood sweets are gone
Life is a day that doesn't last for long
Life is more than money, time was never money
Time was never cash, life is still more than girls
Life is more than hundred dollar bills and roto-tom fills
Life is more than fame and rock and roll and thrills
All the riches of the kings end up in wills
We've got information in the information age
But do we know what life is outside of our convenient Lexus cages?
She said, he said, live like no tomorrow
Every moment that we borrow brings us closer
To a God who's never been short of cash
Hey, Bono, I'm glad you asked
Life is still worth living, life is more that we are.”
And in a more poetic and hopeful song Foreman sings
“Feeling like a refugee
Like it don't belong to me
The colors flash across the sky
This air feels strange to me
Feeling like a tragedy
Take a deep breath and close my eyes
One last time
One last time
Storms on the wasteland
Dark clouds on the plains again
We were born into the fight
But I'm not sentimental
This skin and bones is a rental
And no one makes it out alive
Until I die, I'll sing these songs
On the shores of Babylon
Still looking for a home
In a world where I belong
Where the weak are finally strong
Where the righteous right the wrongs
Still looking for a home
In a world where I belong
Feels like we're just waiting, waiting
While are hearts are just breaking, breaking
Feels like we've been fighting against the tide
I wanna see the earth start shaking
I wanna see a generation
Finally waking up inside, yeah
Until I die, I'll sing these songs
On the shores of Babylon
Still looking for a home
In a world where I belong
Where the weak are finally strong
Where the righteous right the wrongs
Still looking for a home
In a world where I belong
A world where I belong
This body is not my own
This world is not my own
But I still can hear the sound
Of my heart beating out
So let's go boys, play it loud!
On the final day I die
I want to hold my head up high
I want to tell you that I tried
To live it like a song
And when I reach the other side
I want to look you in the eye
And know that I've arrived
In a world where I belong
In a world where I belong
In a world where I belong
Where I belong
Where I belong
Where I belong
Where I belong
I still believe we can live forever
You and I, we begin forever now
Forever now
Forever
I still believe in us together
You and I, we're here together now
Together now
Forever now
Forever now
Forever now
Forever
Forever”
We don’t belong here.
Or rather, what this world has become isn’t the paradise our first parents were placed in.
This world has become a dystopian land of brokenness and false promises.
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