Whatever It Takes

07/07/07 was very colourful, but for reasons I just couldn't bring myself to paint. So here I am one day later, composed to compose.

Lifehouse, brilliant band. They're something like Switchfoot, semi-secular, always shunning the Christian label, living to make music for everyone.

"A faith, not a genre." Very cool way to put it.

Jason Wade simply writes too beautifully (that's Lifehouse's lead vocalist, guitarist and lyricist). He came from a highly spiritual background, having both of his parents being missionaries, and it is shown very evidently throughout his music.

One thing about their music for which I hold dire admiration - ambiguity. They're always two layers of meanings in their lyrics, one for the spirit and one for the flesh. And both are edifying. Sadly, perhaps only a believer can appreciate the full beauty of these songs, especially when I looked at these lyrics below last night, from the perspective of what we know as the 三角关系. At one time the voice speaks to God, at another, it speaks to a person. And when you see these things together as one song gently whispering one message, that soothing feeling is...there, just renewed once again.

Great is Thy faithfulness.

One more thing, the subject "she" in their songs, also often mean more than one person. I think it's spiritually artistic. Ok here it is. A full rendition can be heard over there on the right too. --------->
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Whatever It Takes by Lifehouse

A strangled smile fell from your face
It kills me that I hurt you this way
The worst part is that I didn't even know
Now there's a million reasons for you to go
but if you can find a reason to stay

I'll do whatever it takes
to turn this around
I know what's at stake
I know that I've let you down
And if you give me a chance
Believe that I can change
I'll keep us together whatever it takes

She said "If we're gonna make this work
You gotta let me inside even though it hurts
Don't hide the broken parts that I need to see"
She said "Like it or not it's the way it's gotta be
You gotta love yourself if you can ever love me"

I'll do whatever it takes
To turn this around
I know what's at stake
I know that I've let you down
And if you give me a chance
And give me a break
I'll keep us together, I know you deserve much better

But remember the time I told you the way that I felt
That I'd be lost without you and never find myself
Let's hold onto each other above everything else
Start over, start over

I'll do whatever it takes
To turn this around
I know what's at stake
I know I've let you down
And if you give me a chance
and believe that I can change
I'll keep us together whatever it takes