so I think I'm going to make Wednesdays my song of the week blog. There's usually just that one song that's really hitting home every week or one band or album or whatever.

let me just start by saying, I didn't ALWAYS love Jon Foreman. I thought switchfoot was kind of poppy and... what's the word...

emotional?

It was kind of a love hate relationship. I liked them for their words but at that point, I was "too cool" to listen to music like that. and then they released the beautiful letdown. it was beautiful. perfect harmonies and melodies perfect amount of soft warm vocals and harsh strained "screams."

It was perfect.

And I was stoked.

Then they released nothing is sound. I again was going through a time in my musical life where I was "too cool" for certain bands and songs and chalked nothing is sound up to that. song titles like "happy is a yuppy word" clearly meant sappy poppy horribleness.

I was wrong. (thanks to The Apostle Lehew)

It was clearly pointed out to me how amazing that CD was, but it was like... 6 years after it came out.

but I stopped with my musical discrimination. something in my brain pulled a rosa parks and I finally could see the beauty of music. I absolutely fell in love with Jon Foreman's Seasons. Fall and Winter lulled me to sleep many a nights during a very dark and numb period of my life. Shortly after that, the beauty of Oh, Gravity, graced my ears and I began rediscovering my love for switchfoot. but none of them can compare with their new album.

hello hurricane.

it is pure genius. Every single song is perfect. I would not change one thing about the entire album and cannot wait to hear them grow into their next album. I began this post thinking that I was going to write about the last song on the album, Sing It Out. But given the way that I've been feeling lately, Hello Hurricane is much more fitting...

I've been watching the skies

They've been turning blood red

There is not a doubt in my mind

There's a storm up ahead

(Chorus)
Hello Hurricane You're not enough

Hello Hurricane You can't silence my love

I've got doors and windows boarded up

All your dead end fury is not enough

You can't silence my love

Everything I have I count as loss

Everything I have is stripped away

But before It started building I counted up these costs

Ain't nothing left for you to take away

(Chorus)
Hello Hurricane You're not enough

Hello Hurricane You can't silence my love

I've got doors and windows boarded up

All your dead end fury is not enough

You can't silence my love

Im a fighter fighting for control

Im a fighter fighting for my soul

Everything inside of me surrenders

You can't silence my love

You can't silence my love

(Chorus)
Hello Hurricane You're not enough

Hello Hurricane You can't silence my love

I've got doors and windows boarded up

All your dead end fury is not enough

You can't silence my love
I said Hello Hurricane

Please read the lyrics, pray over them, devour them the way that I have, then find the song listen to it and sing.

What storm is going on in your life that is trying to keep you from loving?

I see the storm.

I see the flood.

I'm going to build an ark.

I'm going to love.