Song of the Day #3: The Song I Was Almost Too Scared to Record
#3 Secondhand Life
I almost held back and didn't record this song, but AJ and Andrew (producer) gave me the guts to sing it.
God knows I must
try to love through the dust
of a secondhand life
Secondhand Life was hard to lay down because it's such a personal song. But I heard the brilliant Katherine Wolfe say recently that the most personal things are the most universal , so let's roll with that.
It's a song about overcoming that feeling that you were meant for a better life than the one you've lived, that you sold yourself short and didn't amount to much. Ouch. I know some of us have those thoughts.
I also know it's a lie.
Moses was a murderer. So was the apostle Paul. So was the psalmist David. We've all done things worth regretting, but we can give in to those feelings of guilt and inferiority, or we can ask forgiveness and then "love through the dust," because love is strong and love can pull us out of the dust on a thousand broken bottles.
"Somebody loves you more than you know."
People lose hope and need to hear these words from their friends and loved ones. From you. From us. Depending on how you hear it, that's the capital somebody (God) and the lowercase somebody - you and me.
Errors, hangups, sins cause the secondhand life imagined in this song, but too many people in our world live secondhand lives not of their own making. They're born into poverty or wear, they don't have clean water, they can't relate to my petty first world problems. We need to run alongside them. We need run alongside them, too.
*PS - I haven't murdered anyone, but Jesus said, "Anyone who has called his brother a fool has murdered." Okay, then. So I have. That would definitely include me, and you, and you, but by God's grace we rise above our own inhumanity.
I almost held back and didn't record this song, but AJ and Andrew (producer) gave me the guts to sing it.
God knows I must
try to love through the dust
of a secondhand life
Secondhand Life was hard to lay down because it's such a personal song. But I heard the brilliant Katherine Wolfe say recently that the most personal things are the most universal , so let's roll with that.
It's a song about overcoming that feeling that you were meant for a better life than the one you've lived, that you sold yourself short and didn't amount to much. Ouch. I know some of us have those thoughts.
I also know it's a lie.
Moses was a murderer. So was the apostle Paul. So was the psalmist David. We've all done things worth regretting, but we can give in to those feelings of guilt and inferiority, or we can ask forgiveness and then "love through the dust," because love is strong and love can pull us out of the dust on a thousand broken bottles.
"Somebody loves you more than you know."
People lose hope and need to hear these words from their friends and loved ones. From you. From us. Depending on how you hear it, that's the capital somebody (God) and the lowercase somebody - you and me.
Errors, hangups, sins cause the secondhand life imagined in this song, but too many people in our world live secondhand lives not of their own making. They're born into poverty or wear, they don't have clean water, they can't relate to my petty first world problems. We need to run alongside them. We need run alongside them, too.
*PS - I haven't murdered anyone, but Jesus said, "Anyone who has called his brother a fool has murdered." Okay, then. So I have. That would definitely include me, and you, and you, but by God's grace we rise above our own inhumanity.
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