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I left my heart in a plastic box
on the bedside table.
It will be locked 'til I get home.
I've grown feeble and tired of the world,
and tired of constantly missing my girl.
And I long to smell the sea
I miss the Pacific Ocean
and the northwest air,
and to run each of my fingers
through the strands of her hair.
I've been all over this country lately,
but I've been nowhere it seems, nowhere.
Well, I've found the cure
for my landlocked blues.
It's coming home to you.
If a simple seed gets just what it needs,
then a redwood tree can grow
up to a hundred feet for the world to see,
and endure the sleet and snow.
But if my whole life was wrapped and priced,
I wonder what the tag would show.
'Cause every time I'm close to the holy ghost,
I always seem to let her go.
I let her go.
on the bedside table.
It will be locked 'til I get home.
I've grown feeble and tired of the world,
and tired of constantly missing my girl.
And I long to smell the sea
I miss the Pacific Ocean
and the northwest air,
and to run each of my fingers
through the strands of her hair.
I've been all over this country lately,
but I've been nowhere it seems, nowhere.
Well, I've found the cure
for my landlocked blues.
It's coming home to you.
If a simple seed gets just what it needs,
then a redwood tree can grow
up to a hundred feet for the world to see,
and endure the sleet and snow.
But if my whole life was wrapped and priced,
I wonder what the tag would show.
'Cause every time I'm close to the holy ghost,
I always seem to let her go.
I let her go.
Lyrics submitted by topherc3103
Track duration: 05:02
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This song especially moved me.
This is a very mature song, though. Can you imagine how hard it would be to tell the woman you love, "I love you, but Jesus is more important than you could ever be."??? And he doesn't just say it once, but over and over he "lets her go." Not only that, he seems happy about it, because the Holy Spirit is filling him more than any earthly relationship could. We get swept up in romantics sometimes, saying to a spouse in a vow that we love them, they complete us, and all of that other stuff, but we should have those feelings about God too. After that relationship develops, then the relationship with the girl can work.
I totally lend this sone to them
The bulk of the song is about being on tour and missing his wife and his home town. That's pretty straightforward. But the important part is just how much he misses home.
But the bridge goes in a different direction. He thinks of the seed of truth that has been planted inside of him, and all that he can do with his life by doing what he does out on tour, the difference he hopes to make in people's lives. This is where the "if my whole life was wrapped and priced...what the tag would show" bit comes in.
The last line is where he realises, as DanJackieChan said, what his life really is all about. Being close to the "holy ghost". And no matter how much he has missed his wife, he can "let her go" when he's close to the holy ghost. I was confused at first because I thought he was referring to the holy ghost as the "her"...but he's contrasting the two.
Matt makes us appreciate his relationship with the holy ghost by explaining how much he loves his wife and misses home, but then showing that his spiritual relationship tops all that. It's beautiful.
All IMHO
Matt's writing isn't brilliant at first glance, but they more you get into it, the more you appreciate.
I totally lend this sone to them
Also this is defiantly my favorite song on this album.
"I've grown feeble and tired of the world,
and tired of constantly missing my girl.
And I long to smell the sea"
but towards the end he realize that as much as he misses his earthly relationship with his wife his heavenly realtionship is greater than that even.
'Cause every time I'm close to the holy ghost,
I always seem to let her go."
The message we can draw from here is that our relationship with God should be first priority in our lives. Once we can find satisfaction in God then we can seek to share that with someone else in a earthly relationship.
THis is why divorce is such a problem, you see people feeling an emptyness in them and the think that a relationship with someone can fill that. But when they get married the realize that as great as it is, it's not good enough. We need to find completement in God first.