photo by Chrissy Knix
So why won’t you reach out your hand David and it’s so joyful, and then you turn the I was contemplating that when I was 23 there
To save me, tonight? page to the next one and he’s like, “God why were things I was struggling with in my life and
I’m damaged if you dare are you letting me die in front of my enemies?” in my walk with God. Things that I told God I
It feels like no one cares you know? (laughs) He’s pleading with God and wanted to change, and I always had my mind
So why can’t I come up for air? I like the openness. made up that by the time I was forty those
Just save me
things would be dealt with. I wouldn’t have
What are you waiting for? When I was writing the song “Save Me”, I was a bad attitude and I wouldn’t get stressed
Someone, save me” thinking in reality I am not as open with God as out and yell at somebody at the bank who
As Christians we are supposed to “talk people David was with God. I don’t feel comfortable doesn’t deserve it, or in the grocery store. And
down from the ledge”. Tell us about the telling God that I’m mad at Him. I know I the truth is that those things are still with me.
motivations behind the song, “Save Me”. shouldn’t be mad at Him, but there might I’ve become more like Christ and the more I
be times that I am, and I don’t want to admit become like Christ I realize the more depraved
[John] This is one of my favorite songs on the it. He already knows it, but I don’t really feel I really am. It’s almost like God didn’t let me
record, partially because of the darkness of the comfortable saying it. Part of the song “Save know how bad I was until I got better (laughs)
lyrics. They remind me of sometimes when we Me” was coming to terms with the sin in my if that makes sense. So it’s almost like you’re
read the Psalms. You might read a Psalm from older age. I just turned forty-four this year and pealing back the onion and then God gives
September 2019
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