Relient K

I love, love, love music.

Love.

I could just lose myself in a good song.

A few days ago, I listened to Relient K’s music for the first time in years.  I stopped listening to them before because I thought I had outgrown their stuff, but to my amazement, their sound had matured right along with me.

Then I think about the time gap between when I had stopped listening to them and when I started again.

Looking back on all the stupid stuff I used to do, I wonder if I would have ever stopped doing them if I hadn’t stopped long enough to listen to God telling me, “Hey, Vy.  Seriously, kid, what’re you doing?  I made you to be better than this.”

I picture Jesus standing a few feet away from me, shaking his head in dismay every time I chose to ignore Him and do my own thing.  “I died for you so you could do this?”

I wonder how much longer I would have kept up the self-destructive behavior–chasing booty, partying, pretending to be something I’m not–if I had kept running from Jesus.

Thankfully, I don’t have to find out.

I’ve dug up miles and miles of sand
Searching for something I can’t see
And I’ve just got bruised and battered hands
And a brand new void inside of me
Complete with walls I did create
From all the earth that I’ve displaced
A mess that I have made from what
I’ve just let pile and pile up
I have not been abandoned, no I have not been
Deserted and I have not been forgotten

I need you
I need you here
I need you now
I need security somehow
I need you
Like you would not believe
You’re the only thing I want
Cause you’re everything I need

Explore the cave that is my chest
A torch reveals there’s nothing left
Your whispers echo off the walls
And you can hear my distant calls
The voice of who I used to be
Screaming out “someone, someone please
Please shine a light into the black
Wade through the depths and bring me back

I have not been abandoned, no I have not been
Deserted and I have not been forgotten

I need you
I need you here
I need you now
I need security somehow
I need you
Like you would not believe
You’re the only thing I want
Cause you’re everything I need

When my hopes seem to dangle
Somewhere just beyond my reach
You say you’ve heard my prayers
And read my words there on the beach

I need you
I need you here
I need you now
I need security somehow
I need you
Like you would not believe
You’re the only thing I want
Cause you’re everything I need

Relient K – I Need You

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