I've been going through another one of my phases lately where I want to listen to Country music whenever I'm listening to music. (Jason, of course, would argue that the music I call "Country" isn't really "Country", but alas)...In fact... driving home from the airport last night after landing from California, it was good to belt out the words along with Brad Paisley... it felt like I was back home, midwestern, heartland, American.
The last few days, though, the lyrics to Rascal Flatts' "Every Day" have really struck me as amazingly deep. In hearing them, I think of Christ, His Sacrifice and gift of Salvation, and the Eucharist made present in the Mass every hour of every day everywhere in the world.
Every time the hook/refrain "Every day" comes around, I can visualize the Host being raised by another priest somewhere else in the world as day breaks in the never-ending praise and worship of the Lamb.
Every time I hear the words about the brokenness, the frailty, the wrongs, I think of my own sins and what Christ came to accomplish.
It's pretty powerful imagery in the lyrics that for me, at least, connect very strongly to God and Church and the faith experience.
Here are the lyrics:
You could've bowed out gracefullyHere's the song:
But you didn't
You knew enough to know
To leave well enough alone
But you wouldn't
I drive myself crazy
Tryin' to stay out of my own way
The messes that I make
But my secrets are so safe
The only one who gets me
Yeah, you get me
It's amazing to me
CHORUS
How every day
Every day, every day
You save my life
I come around all broken down and
crowded out
And you're comfort
Sometimes the place I go
Is so deep and dark and desperate
I don't know, I don't know
Repeat Chorus
Sometimes I swear, I don't know if
I'm comin' or goin'
But you always say something
without even knowin'
That I'm hangin' on to your words
With all of my might and it's alright
Yeah, I'm alright for one more night-
every day
Every day, every day, every day
Every day, every day
You save me, you save me, oh, oh, oh
Every day
Every, every, every day-
Every day you save my life
Michael Halbrook lives in
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