The Inside Out

It’s been a Needtobreathe kind of week. As in, since we bought their new album, The Outsiders, I think I’ve listened to it a million times. And this week that’s all I’ve listened to. If I still bought CDs, this one would be worn out. My kids are even singing “We are the outsiders” as we drive around. Not sure they know what that means but they know the words! Every song on this album has something that has hit me at different points while I’m listening to it but this week it was Through Smoke. What a song. The lyrics are always the most important part of music for me (unless it’s Dave Mathews Band…) but Needtobreathe’s lyrics are the icing on their musical cake. Here’s the lyrics to the song: (And Click Here for a listen…you won’t be disappointed.)

Before the Truth will come to fill our eyes
The world comes down in the form of fire
And when the answers and the Truth
have cut their ties

Will you still find Me
Will you still see Me
Through smoke, through smoke

I was born in a house in a town just like your own
I was raised to believe in the power of the unknown
‘Cause when the answers and the Truth
take different sides

Will you still find Me
Will you still see Me
Through smoke, through smoke

When their whispers
have painted pictures
that make you doubt what you once believed in
Paper stories
that hide the Glory
to keep us searching
Through smoke

Who do you believe when you can’t get through
When everything you know seems so untrue
When I’m lost in a place that I thought I knew
Give me some way that I might find You…..

Through smoke.

Like I said. What a song. What do you do when you can’t see Him for the smoke? Through the people, through the problems, through the mess of life. When the world comes down in the form of fire…when you feel lost, do you still ache to see Him?

I am always bragging about my kids but tonight I found out something very interesting about them…they have great musical tastes! Both of them kept asking for my iPod…  and if you know me at all you know that my pod is one of my most precious material things…I go no where without it, listen to it constantly and freak out when I can’t immediately put my hands on it. I have left it at guitar practice twice and both times thought I may actually die cause I had left it behind! So I decided to let them make their own playlists and burn them CDs with pretty designs on them as a means to protect my beloved yellow pod. I let both kids choose what songs they wanted and I was absolutely shocked and impressed by what they chose! Sarah’s was a little predictable (HANNAH MONTANA!!) but some of Noah’s were a complete shock. I wish I’d been this cool when I was little. Without any further ado, I present my 6 and 4 year old’s playlists:

Noah (6):

 Sarah (4):

***Oh and Noah’s all include the most awesome rhythm on his drums (which are whatever you can beat on in the near vicinity). Sarah’s are all sung shaking her toosh or with her hands in the air. If it’s done with her eyes closed and face turned upwards, she’s singing it to God, not you.