“I wrote this song near the end of my 24th year on this planet. Wherever we run, wherever the sun finds us when he rises, we remain stuck with ourselves. That can be overwhelming. Sometimes I feel like my soul is polluted with politicians, each with a different point of view. With all 24 of them in disagreement, each voice is yelling to be heard. And so I am divided against myself. I feel that I am a hypocrite until I am one, when all of the yelling inside of me dies down. I’ve heard that the truth will set you free. That’s what I’m living for: freedom of spirit. I find unity and peace in none of the diversions that this world offers. But I’ve seen glimpses of truth and that’s where I want to run.”

- Jon Foreman, Switchfoot

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  1. tunereview reader
    August 29, 2008 at 12:16 pm

    Hello.
    I guess this is a very nice song and also his explanation (my english isn’t really good, sorry. ;) )

    I found this comment about that song at http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=3530822107858485480

    by touchthestarsforme on 04-02-2005 @ 05:14:47 PM
    Very deep and powerful song. It is about all of the things one struggles with and how many times you fall down.. since he was 24 when he wrote this, he talks about how he’s fallen down every year of his life… full of screw ups. But this song is about surrendering to God.. “Raising the dead in me” is about God reviving the his spirit… you know, being “spiritually dead” and the “I am the second man now” is him putting his own wants aside and bending to God’s will… Jesus is the first man in his life now instead of himself.

    Nice, isn’t it?

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