Get Me Right

Every now and then, you hear a song that strikes such a chord that you remember everything about the moment you first heard it. It's happened to me only a handful of times in my life. The first time I heard "Ain't Talking About Love" and realized Eddie Van Halen was from another planet, one which I would try with all my might to visit. The first time I heard Metallica's "Battery" which was perfect fuel for my years of high school rebellion. The moment I heard Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" as a freshman in college and realized that Kurt Cobain had (thankfully) killed 80's Cheese Metal with 4 beautiful chords (and heavy debt to the Pixies, which I would discover later).

Well, this week it has happened again. Dashboard Confessional's "Get Me Right" is mesmerizing. To me, it's a perfect soundtrack for my struggles and yearnings in my faith journey. Plus, it absolutely shreds. Can't. Stop. Listening.



Here are the lyrics. Everything except the line about "cutting your hair" makes total sense to me. :)

Get Me Right
I made my slow way home
Limping on broken bones
Out of the thickest pine
Across the county lines
On to your wooden stairs
I know you can repair
I know you've seen the light
I know you'll get me right

Right
Right
Right

I own a sinners heart
I know the rain falls hard
I know the currency
I know the things you'll need
I hope he hears my prayers
I see you cut your hair
I know the saving type
I know you'll get me right

Right
Right
Right

But, Jesus I've fallen
I don't mind the rain if
I meet my maker
I'll meet my maker clean

But, Jesus the truth is
I've struggled so hard to believe
I'll meet my maker
I'll need my maker

To cure of my doubting blood
And drain me of the sins I love
And take from me my disbelief
I know it should come easily
But it remains inside of me
It battles and devours me
It cuddles up the side of me
And whispers it convinces me I'm

Right
Right
Right