I vividly remember that date in 2010 when I first heard what would become my favorite band of all time: NEEDTOBREATHE. Their song "Something Beautiful" was rich, meaningful, awe-inspiring. It shook me to my core, and it brought me peace. It gave me strength...and chills.
While the song often plays on Christian Contemporary radio and their are a few Christian references in the song, its main takeaways are mostly secular. Here's Bo Rineheart, the band's lead singer, on the meaning behind the song:
When I wrote "Something Beautiful", I was in a pretty desperate state. I kinda felt like I hadn't seen anything truly inspiring in awhile. And we're taught that inspiration is just around the corner, but the problem is, it may not be until the fifteenth corner that we finally see it. We talk about that risk and we use a metaphor in the verse of being "ankle deep in the ocean" but "the water is rising quick" and the tide's coming in, y'know, am I gonna drown, in search of this thing that I've been looking for. But I believe that anything worth having, is worth the risk of losing it...In the song, we don't really give the answer of how to find something beautiful. Because how you find that may be completely different than me. But I'm pretty sure it's going to start with a broken heart and a [remorseful] spirit.""Something Beautiful" constantly reminds me that even when it seems like "the water is rising quick," risking my own "drowning," the "search" is worth persevering. Because only by persisting in the search will we finally find that "something beautiful."
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