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Hanging
By a Moment
Song Reflection: Lifehouse |
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By Tom Gilbert
Lifehouse — Hanging By a Moment
Desperate for changing
Starving for truth
Closer where I Started
Chasing after you
I’m falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I’ve held onto
I’m standing here until you make me move
I’m hanging by a moment here with you
Forgetting all I’m lacking
Completely incomplete
I’ll take your invitation
You take all of me
Now.. I’m falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I’ve held onto
I’m standing here until you make me move
I’m hanging by a moment here with you
I’m living for the only thing i know
I’m running and not quite sure where to go
I don't know what I’m diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
There’s nothing else to lose
Nothing left to find
There’s nothing in the world
That could change my mind
There is nothing else
There is nothing else...
Desperate for changing
Starving for truth
Closer where i Started
Chasing after you
I’m falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I’ve held onto
I’m standing here until you make me move
I’m hanging by a moment here with you
I’m living for the only thing i know
I’m running and not quite sure where to go
I don't know what I’m diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you
Just hanging by a moment
Hanging by a moment..
Hanging by a moment...
Hanging by a moment here with you..
The moments that make up our lives are often
filled with precious transcendence, but only when we let go
long enough to be suspended in the moment.
Maybe that’s one of our biggest problems. It’s
so rare that we stop long enough to contemplate just what is
going on in our lives. To do this you have to surrender your
agenda, at least long enough to be open to a sometimes frightening
or overwhelming unknown.
Lifehouse captures this elusive suspension of time in their
powerful “Hanging By a Moment”. In the course of
a short power-pop rock song they take us through doubt, fear,
surrender, change and faith – no small accomplishment.
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If you’ve heard the expression, “falling
into the arms of God” then you appreciate the image
of “falling more in love with you” that the band
is singing about. You can take the song as yet another expression
of heartfelt affection between two people, but I think it’s
evident that the song is about the mysterious divine relationship
so many of us hunger after. When we struggle to make the
connection it often falls flat. Instead, we are invited to
let go of our self-centeredness, admit that we are incomplete
and incapable by ourselves of finding the real meaning in
life and just be in a moment.
The song brings up some pretty important things to get to this “hanging
moment”. It helps when we are “desperate for changing” and “starving
for truth”. We must be willing to chase after something we don’t
understand, only knowing that when we admit we can’t do it all (playing
God) then we’ll go running to the One who invites us “to take
all of me”.
The mixed images of running, chasing, falling, diving, “standing
before you make me move” and ultimately “hanging
by a moment” resolve themselves in the chorus that proclaims
that our love grows when we let go of all we’re hanging
on to and just be at peace with your Higher Power. “…whoever
loses his life for me will save it.” (Luke 9:24)
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