This to me, seems like an honest cry to move past all the faults of this world, to clear through the lies and heartbreak, in order to truly try to find Jesus, even in the most difficult of times.
In my opinion, there’s no better way to end this beautiful song. We go back to the hook before we come to the ending lyrics of this amazing song: and that this vision of filling stadiums with people singing the name of Jesus, without really knowing what it means to live for him, and without knowing the power that name has, is not only missing the point, but is actively imprisoning the believers in those sorts of environments to bring people to church rather than bring the gospel to those that want to know more about Jesus. This idea that, it’s about the amount of people who attend our church, rather than the amount of people that not only love God, but want to live for him. To me, this line really does seem like a dig at the mega church mentality. However, it’s the line “what’s a vision if driven to imprison?” that really interests me. I take the first two lines of this verse to talk about how we’ve become a people of trying to hurt each other (sticks and stones may break my bones ect) rather than come together as people of God and unite under the cross. What’s a vision if it’s driven to imprison? Moving onto the second verse (sung by Lindsay Gardner) Especially the “turn the tables we flipped” line, reminding us that in Jesus, all things are new, and even the situations we feel are broken beyond repair, are secured in his hands. I love the lyrics as they’re not only cleverly placed, but so powerful. We’ve moved from our struggles in the church, back to the focus of what and who our lives should revolve around, our salvation and the one who saved us, Jesus. This a perfect contrast to the first verse in my opinion. A call to leave behind this idea that we should focus more on our church leaders rather than the one that we’re supposed to come and worship, to the point where God comes second to those we may come to idolize that stand in the altar. This verse to me seems like a call from Chad’s perspective for the church to move away from this cult of personality that the modern church has been known to suffer from. Not to say that helping in our churches is a bad thing, not at all, but when we feel like that’s where our service to the Lord begins and ends, then there’s a problem. It really is questioning this idea if we do truly commit ourselves to God, or instead to the church we attend. The first half of this verse really hits me on a number of levels.
This is why i love this band so much, they add a level of depth to every song they write that very few artists or bands could even dream to match. And “the beauty Between” has “sticks and stones” why do i think so highly of this song? Let’s look through the lyrics, and maybe you’ll understand why. “Beyond control” had “a prayer” a song i still consider a turning point for worship. It seems every time i listen to a Kk album, there’s a song that hits me on a level that no other song can, “becoming who we are” had “light after darkness” a song that inspired the name of this blog. So at the time of writing, “The beauty between” (the newest Kings kaleidoscope mixtape) is not even a day old, and though it is different to the previous instalments from my favourite Christian band, it’s still an amazing album in its own right, i’ll leave a link to the whole thing at the end of this post, but there’s one song that i want to focus on today, it’s a song that i have a lot of love for, and a song that i truly feel, is important to the church at large, and that song is “Sticks and Stones”
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