[WM] In your “Hiatus Is Over” video you said album for or do you write them to bring life to
a number of things that really resonated with something that was nagging at you?
me. First off, that “Beauty is the battlefield for
God and the devil. For us, music is how we [Jon] I always equate music with archeology.
throw punches, and it’s time to step back into Everyday you pick up a shovel and you just
the ring.” Nothing covert about that. Would you start digging. Some days or weeks or months
care to unpack what that means to you? you might get rocks, and broken pieces of
pottery or whatever, but the best songs seem
“Hiatus Is Over” // Switchfoot
[Jon] I love that Dostoevsky quote, and I feel
to be the ones that don’t have my fingerprints
that we are naive and fooling ourselves if we has a maker. I think it’s so easy to get lulled to on them, like you just dug up the city and its
don’t acknowledge that everyday is a struggle, sleep, and I want these songs to be a voice intact underneath the surface, waiting to be
and there are a myriad of horrible choices that would feel like an alarm clock or a fresh discovered. You didn’t write it, it was there.
afforded to us in our post-modern pursuit of cup of coffee that would remind us that we are Those are my favorite songs. It’s going to
happiness and meaning and truth. Whether here in this human condition together, and that sound really selfish and self-centered, but
it’s music, or whatever your occupation is, we’re best when we’re giving ourselves away. again, I do think that the beginning for me when
whatever your relationship is, whatever your Self-sacrificial love Himself has shown us how I’m writing a song, I’m not thinking of anyone.
home life is, I think the moment we are reminded to live, and how we can lay our lives down for I’m not playing it for anyone. I’m thinking of how
of our choice, of the possibility of redemption, each other. I can express the inexpressible, how I can tell
of hope, of meaning and truth, that somehow…
the truth. About whatever it is, how I’m feeling,
we are reminded of a bigger story than just [WM] In that same video you said that the or the sun setting, my daughter, whatever it
ourselves and our own commercial input or songs chase you. With two plus decades is… it’s very personal. And once I get up the
output into a capitalistic society, and the soul of success, your audience has grown and courage I’ll play it for my brother, and he’s
is reminded that it exists for a purpose and it changed. Is there someone that you wrote this usually my first line of defense as to whether
February 2019
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