Just got the new(-ish?) Switchfoot CD, the Beautiful Letdown - so I'm procrastinating. (okay, okay, I don't need a new CD to induce me to procrastinate.)

The first three songs seem to weave a certain theme... you think?

Meant To Live

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

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

Dreaming about providence and
whether mice and men have second tries.
Maybe we've been living with our eyes half open,
maybe we're bent and broken.

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.
We were meant to live.


This is Your Life

Yesterday is a wrinkle on your forehead
Yesterday is a promise that you've broken
Don't close your eyes, don't close your eyes,
This is your life.
And today is all you've got now.
And today is all you ever have.
Don't close your eyes.

This is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, is it everything that you dreamed
that it would be when the world was younger,
and you had everything to lose?

Yesterday is a kid in the corner
Yesterday is dead and over.

This is your life, are you who you want to be?
This is your life, are you who you want to be?


More Than Fine

When I wake in the morning
I want to blow into pieces.
I want more than just okay, more than just okay,

When I'm up with the sunshine,
I want more than just a good time
I want more than just okay, more than just okay.

I'm not givin' up, givin' up now.
I'm not givin' up, not backing down.

More than fine, more than bent on getting by.
More than fine, more than just okay.

When I'm lit with the sunrise,
I want more than just the blue skies
I want more than just okay, more than just okay

More than oceans away from the dawn
More than oceans away from who we are.
More than oceans, more than oceans
More than fine.