you found me - the fray

"You Found Me" is a tough song for me. It's about the disappointment, the heart ache, the let down that comes with life. Sometimes you’re let down, sometimes you’re the one who lets someone else down. It gets hard to know who you can trust, who you can count on. This song came out of a tough time, and I’m still right in the thick of it. There’s some difficult circumstances my family and friends have been going through over the past year or so and can be overwhelming. It wears on me. It demands so much of my faith to keep believing, keep hoping in the unseen. Sometimes the tunnel has a light at the end, but usually they just look black as night. This song is about that feeling, and the hope that I still have, buried deep in my chest.
I kept getting these phone calls from home - tragedy after tragedy... If there is some kind of person in charge of this planet - are they sleeping? Smoking? Where are they? I just imagined running into God standing on a street corner like Bruce Springsteen, smoking a cigarette, and I'd have it out with him.
-Isaac Slade, The Fray

Before you read the rest of this blog, watch this (the second one is taken with a digital camera hanging from a pipe behind one of the guys, watch the first one and see if you can see it):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR4kyadzLzM or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOff1KxOduQ





okay...if you didn't watch, the rest of this will mean nothing, so sorry about your luck.



i found god in a psych ward personally. he didn't smack me over the head or anything. he came to me in the form of a depressed psych patient. ironic, huh?

anyway, this song is really specala to me. especially the part that says "you never sent me no letters, you've got some kind of nerve, taking all i want"

that line is important to me because, and most people don't believe this, but i'm in a really tough time. i won't go into details, but gods been piling on the phone books (will explain in later post). i gave up on him for one day, but didn't really survive to well like that.
i believe we all give up on the world at least once month. maybe more.
giving up somehow seems easier that keeping on. but if you've ever been faced with your own power to take a life, you know the emotional tension. you know what happens to your heart. the power is intoxicating but also humbling. there are few people in the world who can handle life and death without going insane.
what i really believe is that God meets us each somewhere special. im not talking about when you accepted christ. im talking about the moment you yelled at him, your rock bottom. as i said, mine was in a psych ward. i didn't really realize t at the time, but that wasmy rock bottom and my realization. i want to hear, what was your 'you found me' moment?