Take it back! was a phenomenal band I saw this summer. The lyrics are pretty much straight forward about the things a person can see viewing how christians misrepresent God. These are my thoughts on them.
I've been tossing in my sleep
Plagued by the things I've seen
I see grown men in the streets
begging for food to eat
I see a young mom in the church
Shunned because her baby has no father
I see a war on the TV
That leaves orphans in the streets
And I think to myself
what a world we live in
where people use God's name
to expand their empires
They say its just the way it is
That I should just learn to accept it
Well I beg to differ man
I won't give in
You villainous men
With your treacherous hands
Have taken away all the meaning in this
Road you claim to travel
Is in the path of his steps
All the while your the shell of a Christian man
So I won't tread lightly
I won't go quietly
I won't speak softly
I won't let you get the best of me
This has to end here
This has to end right now
No longer can we wait for things to all work out
Just open up your eyes
And look past your front door
Your sisters in the streets and your brothers at war
Compassion has been lost
in a nation built by greed
But we could be a generation that is truly free
No longer will we answer
To a king who wears a crown
But a king who ruled through peace
Then laid his life down
Rise up
Rise up true sons of zion
I will be the change I want to see in the world
The first part. Up to where people use God's name to expand their empires.
SPeaks alot. Look at all the wrong people continue to use the name of the Lord to do. How often are people supporting their soldiers. I'm not person protesting a funeral (i think those protestors are retarted, along w/ most protestors). However how can a person Go to war, the killing of people and claim it in a God's name. Who has continually said to forgive people. There's a difference in ending torture chambers going to war. SO many people, who for 'the benefit of the church' have been hurt/kicked out by a church. Not everyone has had this simple white collar life. Where worship is easy. And you dont spend your hour and a half at church worried about home. Not everyone has had the easy way to worship God.
"they say its just the way it is"
Were told to jsut accept it?
And live with the problems?
WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!
Thats not what standing up for what you believe is at all.
If someting is wrong spark a fire, and cause the change that is needed to happen.
The fact that these lyrics speak a sad truth about what happens to those who see problems in the 'christian' theology is what sickens me. Cause a change. Speak your own mind. Find your SOAPBOX.
This song turns around as he calls out the person who claims christianity. and says I wont speak softly. I wont just let this happen. I'll be the change THat is so desired. Please start to live this out. My prayer is that I be the change i need to see. I pray that You be the change you so desire. I pray that I will continue to grow into a socialistic mindset and give to each other as they need.
This nation built on greed, has destroyed our compassion, As christians we still only care about ourselves. We see fellow people in streets, people causing violence, and we leave it. We dont do anything to fix the problems at hand. When will You see someone hurting and go and help them? WHen will i do this. When will I end my selfishness. and Give it all solely to the Lord.
I pray that we will stop following these earthly kings, and start following the king that truely matters. the one that laid down everything for us. The one that laid down everything for me, and for you. I wish to grow in ways that I dont know are possible. God it is through you alone that I have conquered anything that enslaved me before. Lord it IS you that is redemption.
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