Song of the Week: Switchfoot's "Meant to Live"

The player for the featured "Song of the Week" can be found on the upper right corner of the weblog for one week.

Switchfoot, according to this article, “is one of the few acts today that remains secular-friendly while being grounded firmly in the faith.” They headlined a free concert at Baylor last Saturday that Diane and I attended with our youngest, Stephen. A shot of Pat Neff Hall in the background (from a Flickr member)--



It was attended by 6,000 to 7,000 people and hosted by Beta Upsilon Kai ("Brothers Under Christ"). My eldest, Michael, is a member of the fraternity, and worked the video for the concert. During one song, John Foreman, frontman for the band, walked into the crowd singing, and jumped up on the platform where Michael was manning a camera. Great fun--


For this week's "Song of the Week," here's "Meant to Live"--

Fumbling his confidence
And wondering why the world has passed him by
Hoping that he's bid for more than arguments
And failed attempts to fly, fly

We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside
Somewhere we live inside
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside

Dreaming about Providence
And whether mice or men have second tries
Maybe we've been livin with our eyes half open
Maybe we're bent and broken, broken

We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside
Somewhere we live inside
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
Somewhere we live inside

We want more than this world's got to offer
We want more than this world's got to offer
We want more than the wars of our fathers
And everything inside screams for second life, yeah
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live for so much more
Have we lost ourselves?
We were meant to live
We were meant to live