Sidewalk Prophets’ Live Like That, the carrier single of its new album out March 27 2012 in digital and CD formats across the world, is officially my favorite CCM song of 2012 so far! I love this song!
Live Like That is a powerful anthem about taking every moment in one’s life and using that as a moment to glorify Christ. It’s asking the one question that should be on every Christian’s minds: for what exactly am I here on earth, and is everything I’m doing bringing glory back to the Creator to Whom I’m grateful for this life? Have I impacted lives in a positive way? When people struggle with loneliness, disease, anger, do I shine God’s light on them and bring them comfort in the name of Jesus?
Do people see Christ in me?
There is a rawness in Live Like That that reaches deep into the listener’s soul. It’s not just the emotion in lead singer David Frey’s voice. It’s not just the simple yet powerfully poetic lyrics (my favorite line: Recklessly abandoned, never holding back, I wanna live like that. (Brought tears to my eyes.) For me, it’s how Sidewalk Prophets’ Live Like That captures the deep yearning in my soul to live a life that would please God, not out of reward, but out of gratitude, because we have experienced grace, the kind of grace the world needs to know about.
On a recent blog post on its website, Sidewalk Prophets quotes Hebrews 12:1-2 (Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith.). The writer of Hebrews certainly knew what he was talking about when he encouraged us to let Christ live through us; Sidewalk Prophets has taken the essence of that verse and put it into a song so powerful that Christians everywhere cannot help but be inspired and moved. And end of day, isn’t that what Christian music is supposed to do?
Sidewalk Prophets. Live Like That. #1 in 2012. Mark my words.
LIVE LIKE THAT LYrics
Sidewalk Prophets
Sometimes I think
What will people say of me
When I’m only just a memory
When I’m home where my soul belongs
Was I loved
Would no one else show up?
Was I Jesus to the least of us?
Was my worship more than just a song?
I wanna live like that
And give it all I have
So that everything I say and do
Points to You
If love is who I am
Then this is where I’ll stand
Reckless abandoned
Never holding back
I wanna live like that
I wanna live like that
Am I proof that You are who You say You are
That grace can really change a heart
Do I live like Your love is true
I wanna live like that
And give it all I have
So that everything I say and do
Points to You
If love is who I am
Then this is where I’ll stand
Reckless abandoned
Never holding back
I wanna live like that
I wanna live like that
I wanna show the world the love You gave for me
(I wanna live like that)
Longing for the world to know the glory of the King
I wanna live like that
And give it all I have
So that everything I say and do
Points to You
If love is who I am
Then this is where I’ll stand
(Where I stand)
Reckless abandoned
Never holding back
I wanna live like that
I wanna live like that
