the fray = the best

ok, obviously not the ultimate best. i can't ever say what my all-time fav band is just yet. but the fray is definitely up there. KH and i saw them at the house of blues last night and it rocked our world. we went out to a little place on henderson called fireside pies, split a pizza and drank some sangria and then went to the hob - such a fun date night ;) and a musical treat to our eager ears.

if you don't like the fray (i will fight you), or haven't heard much of them (which is highly unlikely), i want to tell you why i love them. and they have a new album which comes out on feb 3. you have probably heard their new single "you found me" - which is an incredible song. KH heard them discussing it's meaning on kissFM yesterday and it really blew us away.

the song is speaking to God - and it's the touching on the question that all people of faith probably ask at least one point in their lives: "why do really bad things happen to good people? why do we suffer?" it's a question that i'm sure people who don't believe ask too, but in a different way.  i highly encourage you to read or watch an interview with isaac slade and the rest of the band when they discuss the lyrics to this heartwrenching track:

i found god on the corner of 1st and amistad

where the west was all but won

all alone, smoking his last cigarette

i said, "where you been?"

he said, "ask anything."

where were you when everything was falling apart?

all my days spent by the telephone that never rang

all i needed was a call that never came to the corner of 1st and amistad

lost and insecure, you found me

you found me lying on the floor, surrounded

surrounded, why'd you have to wait?

where where you? where were you?

just a little late, you found me

you found me

but in the end, everyone ends up alone

losing her, the only one that's ever known who i am, who i'm not and who i wanna be

no way to know how long she will be next to me

lost and insecure, you found me

you found me lying on the floor, surrounded

surrounded, why'd you have to wait?

where were you? where were you?

just a little late, you found me

you found me

early morning, the city breaks

i've been calling for years and years and years and years

and you never left me no messages

you never send me no letters

you've got some kind of nerve, taking all of our......

lost and insecure, you found me

you found me lying on the floor, surrounded

surrounded, why'd you have to wait?

where were you? where were you?

just a little late, you found me

you found me, why'd you have to wait 

to find me?

KH said that in the interview, "amistad" is a reference to God as our first friend (amistad means friendship). while God will always find you, at times he waits. but never to "teach us a lesson" or let us suffer because of anything we've done - this is just the world we live in. it was once a pure and sinless place, but we let satan get the best of us and the world stopped being perfect. but something satan didn't account for was the better place God's preparing, where everything will be right, darkness can't touch us. and we are able to see small glimpses of heaven in this world, giving us hope.

i've been a little emo lately. can you tell? maybe i'm losin' it?

seriously, though. tell me what you think about this song. i love discussions of a spiritual or musical nature. when they combine - i get happy.

love/miss/namaste.