So, I and love and love and love and love the newest Avett Brothers album "I and Love and You." I've been listening to it non-stop since about Ash Wednesday and off and on before. Such a solid album.
I don't know how long we did this before we realized it, but one day, driving through the haze and maze of Jerusalem on the way to Bethlehem, Colin and I found ourselves singing this in the different harmonious parts. Windows down. Hasids walking by. Sunshined stones lighting up the city. Awesome.
It's hit me, since coming back home, what this song has to offer to the discussion of sin (duhn duhn duhnnnnnnn) and especially the great conversation it could open up with Romans 7, that whole "I know what is right but I just can't do it" beauty offered by Paul.
Here are the lyrics:
ILL WITH WANT
I am sick with wanting
And it's evil and it's daunting
How I let everything I cherish lay to waste
I am lost in greed this time, it's definately me
I point fingers but there's no one there to blame
I need for something
Not let me break it down again
I need for something
But not more medicine
I am sick with wanting
And it's evil how it's got me
And everyday is worse than the one before
The more I have the more I think:
I'm almost where I need to be
If only I could get a little more
I need for something
Now let me break it down again
I need for something
But not more medicine
Something has me (Something has me)
Oh something has me (Something has me)
Acting like someone I don't wanna be
Something has me (Something has me)
Oh something has me (Something has me)
Acting like someone I know isn't me
Ill with want and poisoned by this ugly greed
Temporary is my time
Ain't nothin on this world that's mine
Except the will I found to carry on
(Three?) is not your right to choose
It's answering what's asked of you
To give the love you find until it's gone
I need for something
Now let me break it down again
I need for something
But not more medicine
Something has me (Something has me)
Oh something has me (Something has me)
Acting like someone I don't wanna be
Something has me (Something has me)
Oh something has me (Something has me)
Acting like someone I know isn't me
Ill with want and poisoned by this ugly greed
Ill with want and poisoned by this ugly greed
Imagine see it in harmony.
Best lyric of the song:
"Free is not your right to choose it's answering what's asked of you to give the love you find until it's gone."
The point is the chorus.
"Something has me...acting like someone I don't want to be."
From Paul: "I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate."
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