| Blink-182 – Home Is Such A Lonely Place Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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| Anberlin – Self-Starter Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"This song is about attempting to overcome a mutual vice with someone you are in a relationship with. It seems humanity as a whole is prone to pulling each other down, and we usually assimilate with whom we choose to spend the most time with. We become callused to our own sin, immune to our shortcomings. We continue to indulge and soon it is a routine and part of our character. For the weak (all of us) we need something beyond ourselves to pull us out of the hole we have dug. Overcome." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Little Tyrants Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"This song is about self centered people who have isolated themselves on an island of superiority. It makes no sense to me to think yourself better than someone else, this archaic life only leads to a life where you end up with no friends or loved ones on your death bed. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves. Black sun is a reference to Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Other Side Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| "This song is about crossing the great unknown beyond death and a Savior who is waiting for me on the other side." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 | |
| Anberlin – Someone Anyone Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| "I am tired of war, I feel as a global society we should have evolved past this but sadly we haven’t. There are many other places online where I go into detail about the song so that being said I absolutely support the men and women who serve in our Armed Forces who defend this country; because of them we can sleep better tonight knowing there is someone out there who is willing to lay down their lives so we might live ours in peace and freedom." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 | |
| Anberlin – Intentions Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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This song also touches on what I learned from being a type three, deeper however is my self imposed philosophy of ‘drive’. I have met many people more intelligent then myself, I am surrounded by them constantly. However, I have not many people with more drive or determination which I think can replace what I (you) might lack in other areas. Want to conquer the world? First pick up a sword, and never stop swinging. Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. -Calvin Coolidge -Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Innocent Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"This song was written for my grandfather who passed away while I was on tour in Brazil, he went into a coma but I had the opportunity to see him before I left. He opened his eyes at one point, and I want to believe he felt the kiss on his cheek and heard every word that I uttered between tears. I know I will see him again. 'When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men'. -Rumi's epitaph" - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Desires Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| This song was one of the few songs that I have written where it wasn’t something that had personally happened to me, rather It is a song warning people the complications of lust and the consequences of acting on those feelings. For those who embark on filling the void in their life with physical affection soon find out that they end up even more empty than when they began the vain pursuit. - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 | |
| Anberlin – Type Three Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"This song is autobiographical, each part spelling out a little of my past. Type Three is my Enneagram number. I have heard that the average person has 16 conversations with themselves in their head in one minute. I am ADHD, thats how many conversations I have had since I started this sentence. Dancing through the fibers of time was an inside joke that Jordan Butcher and I made up while on tour in China. We were discussing what super powers we would want to have and I said that I would want the ability to stop time. He asked why, and that the only thing I could really do with that power is to dance through the fibers of time. We couldn’t stop laughing. After a few theological conversations I arrived at the final line of the second verse, it was never meant to be harsh, it is more along the lines of Pascals Wager. Speak only when your spoken to was inspired by the song Munich." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Orpheum Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"There was a club in Tampa called The Orpheum where my love and I would go and hang out, we would end up dancing till the place shut down. So many good memories there, its where everything began. I was lost in the music and the moment, and this song called for these words. I revisited The Orpheum in memories, and this song is what I came up with." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Modern Age Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"We can’t expect to be caught if we never fall. This song is written for a dear friend who is too afraid to fall in love, they are so lonely but refuse to give their heart a chance. For all those who have been hurt just know that we all have, it doesn’t mean that you should lock yourself away in hopes of never getting hurt. You will be loved." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – God, Drugs & Sex Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"When you meet someone and the chemistry is strong give it time to find the true nature behind these newly found mutual feelings; what matters is character and the central values between partners. You may be attracted to the other person but rifts arise when there are massive differences in the core makeup in who you believe yourself to be; these core values can be such topics as belief in God, drug use, money, goals, dreams, and abstinence. ’Know thyself’, then learn them." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – We Owe This To Ourselves Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"This song was originally supposed to be called KING but someone at the label didn’t like the title. (On our set lists its still called KING) This song is about my High School hero Dr. Martin Luther King jr. I stumbled on a biography of him and everything I read completely inspired me, still to this day his words seep into my writing, his quotes find their ways into my songs. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” -Dr. Martin Luther King jr." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Impossible Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| "This song is about the give and take that every relationship counters. No romance actually ends in ‘and they live happily ever after’; it doesn’t mean that they end, It just means that there are going to be trials and tribulations in any healthy relationship." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 | |
| Anberlin – Take Me (As You Found Me) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"This was Brenden O’Briens favorite song on the record, which meant so much to Christian and I. Whose going to drain my blood is a reference to my neighbor Tim who was on dialysis. His X wife loved him so much that she would take him to the hospital once or twice a week for his procedures. They weren’t even together and yet she cared that much. I thought this song was going to be the biggest of our career, that didn’t happen, but it does remain my favorite on DITW." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Closer Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"I know this is how a lot of us have felt about God, as if He is some cosmic being just staring at us, waiting for us to fail so he can beat us with a Thor like hammer. Instead it ends up that it is us that walk away, its always us. Our past mistakes cause a great rift, which is easily remedied if only we ask. But we know ourselves and wonder how anyone, including God, could ever love us for who we were. It just takes a asking friends, family, or even God to come closer, and they will." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – You Belong Here Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| "Isn’t this really what we all want? Just to know we are accepted without any hesitation? In order to receive we must first give, and we may not be much but when we give everything it may be all that someone has in this life." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com | |
| Anberlin – Pray Tell Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"The beat was inspired by our time in Brazil, we love it there and have made some lifelong friendships with people there. This song is for all the ‘sins’ that we try to cover up from people, as if we don’t all fail. We wear so many masks, and over time we end up not being able to tell who we really are. I think it is important to find a few people that we can trust with who we really are. Some call them best friends, some call them accountability partners, whatever you call them be brutally honest, we can’t help you out of the bottom of the hole if we don’t know its there." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – The Art of War Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"Relationships are tough, all of them; friendships, marriage, significant others, etc. They will always be tough, we are all imperfect humans on a never ending quest for love. When one person in the relationship starts to play games, or get ahead of the other through guilt trips or any other number of mind games then the relationship will cease to progress. It is frustrating when people try to gain the upper hand, instead we should try humility and hold fast to unconditional love. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. The Book by Sun Tzu is an absolute must read (Art of War) Your Arsenal is a Morrissey record." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – To the Wolves Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"I heard once, and I am clearly paraphrasing, ‘show me your friends I will know all I need to know about you’. Who we surround ourselves with clearly helps in the defining process of what we will become in the future. I have had friends, like we all have, that have made decisions that have lead to the disintegration of the relationships; and perhaps it is for the best. If the nature of the relationship was never one of mutual respect and understanding then maybe it is best that they are far removed from your life to begin with." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Down Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"I feel like I was a better follower of Christ yesterday, so much of this world just collapses and I felt weighted underneath past decisions. I know it is not necessarily true, but while writing this song thats where I was. This simple song was perhaps the most autobiographical I had written in years. I see now that we are not our past. I guess I always knew it in the back of my head but it took someone outside myself to show me that it was true. 'Honey, honey' lyric and melody line was stolen from a Lonely Hearts song." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Depraved Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"I wanted a song that simply built, I loved how Thom Yorke would use his voice as an instrument and let the lyrics be wherever the pen might take them. My whole goal was to layer vocals upon vocals. I believe Nate helped write this song, one of many to come. This song was inspired by those who I observed to be stagnant, to me this life is about those who are willing to go out and take it by throat. We make our own choices and live with the consequences; it seems others simply react to whatever happens to them, lying dormant until the next circumstance overtakes them. Go take on this life, its conquerable to those few with determined spirits." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – The Resistance Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"I wanted this to be our OP IVY unity song and instead it turned out to be our ultra political Rage Against the Machine anthem. I read a story where Osama Bin Laden called the United States a bunch of paper tigers, all our diplomacy stood in the way of taking action. I am not sure why his words hit me so hard, but it made me upset. This song wasn’t written about Bin Laden as much as it was written for our politicians who would rather gain popularity over respect. Raise funds rather raise standards. Look the part instead of acting the part. People in power should represent the people who put them there, not the corporations who paid for their advertising campaign. Political rant over." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Breaking Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"The first time we played this song was acoustic for my friend John Fraziers wedding weekend in Seattle, people loved it and I remember looking at Christian and saying ‘we did it’ so everyone could hear. This should not have been our follow up single, maybe we shouldn’t have had a follow up on this record. If you don’t know how eclectic and ADHD Anberlin records can be it might throw you off if you heard a pop song like this next to FGD on your radio. A machine where your heart once was is a Darth Vader reference. Calling in the air tonight is a Phil Collins reference. Butch Walker said he liked this song. YES." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Blame Me! Blame Me! Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"When other people do not want to admit they are wrong they begin to blame others as a coping mechanism. It seems they do not want to say sorry and would rather strap you to their ship and drown together. I think one of the greatest gifts we can give as humans is the power to forgive. It takes a lot for a person to confess, it takes even more for the other person to let go. Admit when you are wrong, you will end life surrounded by those who truly love you for you." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Retrace Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"I wrote this in New Orleans in January of 2007, the band and label sent me there to write, and I came home with a lot more than just songs. I could never get the right ending for this song so I ended up writing with Dan Wilson from Tonic who went on to write for Adele and The Dixie Chic’s. Not to bad. It seems songs just take me back to moments, a lot of people have scrapbooks or pictures to take them to a different time. For me I can just put on a song and relive the moment, music is like time traveling device for me. This song is about all the subtle things, including songs, that take us back to someone else." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Feel Good Drag Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"I think it is so funny when people say they liked the original version of this song, the only difference is that there is an intro and I don’t scream 4 words in the bridge. What people are really trying to say when they say that to their friends is ‘look at me, I am cooler than you, I knew them before you did’. I am not sure why people think they are so special when they find music before someone else. Just because you checked Pitchfork or AP.net an hour before someone else doesn’t make you unique it just makes you bored. You were bored before someone else. Congrats. The NTFP version wasn’t better, in fact it wasn’t even supposed to go on the record, in fact Aaron Sprinkle didn’t even record the vocals, he was out of town, his intern Zac did. So the next time someone feels the need to tell us on our own social media page that the original version was better I wish they would just say ‘hey I wish you would have not re-recorded that version because I liked it better when you were still living with your parents & you had to sell your car because you couldn’t afford the insurance and the song was stuck at the end of a record that didn’t really see the light of day. The fact that it went number 1 on alternative radio and eventually went gold is irrelevant in my opinion and in no way validates its rerelease. I am bored. I am cool.” The fact that we rerecorded this song and it did so well prolonged our careers for years. If you like any song off of Dark, Vital, or Lowborn you can thank FGD in all its rerecordeness for the opportunity to exist. "when you know you shouldn’t be in the relationship get out, even though it may be comfortable the end result will be the same (pain.) that was me, i stayed because it was easy, it wasn’t the right thing to do. in the end i walked away with regrets, failure, and broken friendships. The title was suggested by our friend Nick Pollice." - Stephen Christian Anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Disappear Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| "This song was written about a documentary I saw on National Geographic about homeless kids and my first hand experience with those less fortunate that I witnessed in Los Angeles. It was hard to think that no one cared, and that the more I drove by the less I did. They just become fixtures… their lack became normal. Its not that they left, they just became invisible to me. Quickly I realized my error, wrote this song and worked with an organization called RED EYE in LA to try to do my part." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 | |
| Anberlin – Breathe Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"Lyrically this is one of my favorites, so many stories came together to write this. Initially it was about a soldier coming home from war, then it was about someone getting out of a bad relationship, then it just became a song about changing something in your life that needed to be changed; Something that was slowly taking the breath out of your lungs and suffocating me. Universal tried to get Taylor Swift to record this after we put it out, she never did." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Burn Out Brighter (Northern Lights) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"Nathan was flying home from LA and his plane started to basically free fall, to the point where people were screaming and throwing up. The bigger man next to him was crying and grabbed Nate’s hand. He thought he was going to die. I rewrote this song so many times that if it were a man I would have punched it. I couldn’t stand this song, and Neal made me rewrite it literally 17 times, after Nathan told me the story I was inspired to take it and write it as if I were in the plane and my final thoughts. Northern Lights, right out side of Asheville, NC is where I got on one knee." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Younglife Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"My friend Dorian, my brother Paul, and I trounced through some woods in Central Michigan, I had driven up there to see my niece who had just been born. We started talking about how we wished we were kids again; to be that carefree again, where every day seemed to be an adventure seemed like such an amazing thing to do over again. The second part of the song is the story of the inception of my life with the one; I spent 60 dollars trying to make her homemade indian food. It was horrible, we ended up eating what was salvageable on her bare St. Petersburg apartment floor. I want to do it again. Her neighbors hated us. I stole the beat of this song from Training for Utopia’s ‘New York City is Overrated”" - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Haight Street Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| "I love San Fran, to bad I could never afford to live there; I really think this was a great pop song, but it should have been on Blueprints or NTFP. I think the band had evolved past this. I have a lot of negative opinions on this record though, I was just in a darker place than I needed to be to write a record." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 | |
| Anberlin – Soft Skeletons Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"This song was written about a news paper article I read (I did a *graphic* modesty guild post about it here http://modesty.blogspot.com/2006/12/james-chavez-must-die.html). There are hurting people in this beautiful world, I wish I could rescue them all. I got the title of the song from Emily Haines side project ‘Soft Skeletons’" - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Miserabile Visu (Ex Malo Bonum) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"As a child growing up in the church I was always infatuated in Revelations, this song is a post-apocolyptic love song. No matter what happens, I will be with you. The red priest is the nickname of my favorite composer. You can find everything else in Revelations (for the most part). My brother Tim (who now works at the White House *no big deal) came up with the Latin title." - Stephen Christian anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Godspeed Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"This song is about the ‘glamourous’ lives of musicians that people seem to put up on pedestal and worship. Why? Sex, drugs, and rock and roll seem to get you to about the age of 27 and then you die. Tragically. Neverland- I always felt like musicians live in a Peter Pan world, no one ever has to grow up (at least no one wants to, and no one wants them to). White lines (coke) & black tar (heroin) Death by Misadventure (Research Brian Jones) Lexington (From the song ‘I’m Waiting for my Man’, a Velvet Underground reference) Fashion statement suicide- cigarettes Chelsea Hotel- Sid & Nancy" - Stephen Christian Anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Adelaide Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"Adelaide was the first show we played in Australia, we have always loved that country and when I was searching for a name to use for this song it seemed only fitting to use a city from AU. I tried Melbourne and Sydney, neither worked, I didn’t try Perth though, should have. Lipstick Traces was a store that was right around the corner from our studio in Seattle, I always liked the name so I threw it in the bridge. This song is about me, no one else. I was scared of being alone, I would try to pretend I wasn’t but I needed the attention of the opposite sex to thrive. I learned better, the hard way." - Stephen Christian Anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – A Whisper and a Clamor Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"At this point in my career I felt as though I had focused so much on the lyrical content but no one really cared, I thought nobody was understanding what I was trying to say. In retrospect I was an oxymoron, I didn’t want to reveal to much of what they were about so people could interpret them how they wanted, but I wanted them to see life from my angle at the same time. impossible. I felt like I should have been more clear, and as you will see New Surrenders lyrics are absolutely straight forward with very little room for misinterpretation, therapeutic rantings, or ‘art’. It isn’t until Dark Is The Way that I regain the struggle of clarity and ambiguity; and it isn’t until VITAL that I regain those in balance." Stephen Christian Anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – The Unwinding Cable Car Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"This personal song is about those people who do not see how truly amazing they really are, they seem to give up before they see what life is about to show them. (Exodus 17). I can remember running down the street lamp lit hill on Pine street in Seattle after I wrote the song, exhilarated with how it turned out." - Stephen Christian Anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – There Is No Mathematics To Love And Loss Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"This is a true story about a friend from Florida that was in a band there, I called to make sure that I could tell his story; he told me ‘without stories like (mine) music wouldn’t exist’. My sister Christina told me to ‘write a story like they do in country music’, this was my attempt at such a direction." Stephen Christian Anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Hello Alone Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| "This song is about those who come from broken homes; the pain, the turmoil, the feeling of loss. At the end of the day none of us are alone." Stephen Christian Anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 | |
| Anberlin – Alexithymia Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"This song is about someone who never truly saw the world for what it is, or could be. We had so much in common, but God & the love were not two of those areas. If I could go back and change this chorus I would, it feels repetitive when I listen now, such great potential." - Stephen Christian Anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Reclusion Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| "I was in a darker place when I wrote this, had just finished a book by Paulo Coelho which distorted my view of love for a brief moment (the title is hidden in the song). I was withdrawing into myself, but I knew that my true nature couldn’t hide for long. Isolation only perpetuates and prolongs depression, trust me." - Stephen Christian Anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 | |
| Anberlin – Inevitable Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| "Crazy enough the verses were written about my brother Paul…not so much the chorus. We moved around all the time as kids and never had the chance to make many friends, we were made fun of, and looked down on; but we had each other and our lack of financial stability forced our creative energy to be refined. Cardboard boxes were our equivalent to a new bike or a remote controlled anything." - Stephen Christian Anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 | |
| Anberlin – Dismantle. Repair. Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"This song is written for those who, like me, are greatly affected by others words. When every word spoken is taken to heart, registered, dissected analyzed, and applied to the core of who we really are. At the end of the day it is not others judgements of us that make us who we will end up to be. It is faith, hope, and love alone." Stephen Christian Anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – (*Fin) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"This is one of the most personal songs, I felt like a weight was lifted off when I finished writing it next to the library in Richards Coffee shop in Winter Haven, Florida. The song tells of four overarching stories that effected my faith in Christ growing up. The first is of an unfulfilled ‘prophesy’ that was given to William and Mary in Winter Haven, Florida (they know, I know, & God knows). The second is an autobiographical tale that happened to me on Ridge Road in Stevensville, Michigan. I was 5 years old and I walked down our long driveway and had it out with God and the devil. I remember telling them both to leave me alone, I was confused and wanted neither of them. The third is of a ‘missionary’ who abandoned his wife and children to ‘help’ others, it only ended in hurting everyone around him, he did more damage than he could ever repair in this lifetime. Maybe he has changed, maybe he has stayed the same. The final story is of Billy Burke, a… healer? A… mystic? I am not sure, either way I saw OZ, I watched the curtain pulled back. I was left in a spiral of disbelief. Maybe he has changed, maybe he has stayed the same. The truth is if you are looking for God in Christians prepared to be disappointed; the truth is we humans are all hypocrites, ALL OF US. Luckily I found Christ, in spite of these and other stories that propelled me in the opposite direction." - Stephen Christian Anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Never Take Friendship Personal Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"It was a July morning, I woke up and realized I had dreamt about killing someone so many different ways in just one nights worth of dreams. I told my tour manager about it, he laughed because he probably had the same dream about the same person. This songs lists a few of the ways. Ryan Clark originally screamed as a placeholder, we ended up liking it, so it stayed on the record. In retrospect I wish it wasn’t there only because a genre of screaming and singing combined suddenly became a thing and for a second people lumped us in that category. We did not want to shed our ‘Christian Emo Indie Warped Tour Alternative Radio Rock’ label that we had worked so hard to achieve." This song title (album title) is usually attributed to my grandfather, who said a lot of witty phrases. However, we were out on tour and I heard something similar to this on a news broadcast, it really stuck. For me it was a commentary on a person we wanted to kick out of the band and the state of the music industry as a whole. It sounds so bitter looking back on it, but then it was clearly apropos. - Stephen Christian Anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 |
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| Anberlin – Paperthin Hymn Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"When I say my work is inspired by poetry I mean it, several lines are inspired by long dead poets from around the world. This song is about my Oma who passed away my Junior Year of college, she was so strong. She never told any of her family that her heart was so thin she could have died at any moment the last 9 years of her life. She called my family every Sunday morning, it is a tradition I miss; she passed away an August evening in her kitchen in St. Joseph, Michigan." - Stephen Christian Anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com |
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| Anberlin – Stationary Stationery Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| "Seth Roberts, what a great voice. We once asked him to be in the band, he said no. I remember calling my friend J. Smith and asking her if the title was cheesy, she liked it, it stuck. This song is self explanatory, I remember telling someone that we should meet in Paris on a certain day if neither of us were seeing anyone. Well, we never met up, I wrote about it." - Stephen Christian Anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 | |
| Anberlin – (The Symphony Of) Blase Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| "This song was originally called ‘Amsterdamn’, I think it leaked that way because a number of people had it under that in their playlists. A girl I was seeing went overseas and made some rather poor decisions. I was crushed, I was positive their was no redemption from the situation. In retrospect there may have been redemption but there was no recovery." - Stephen Christian Anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 | |
| Anberlin – A Day Late Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| "I had a thing for someone in high school, she came back into my life years later when i was already with someone else. realized that though i could most likely follow my high school heart i would rather stay in a committed relationship." - Stephen Christian Anberlinlyrics.tumblr.com June 2014 | |
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