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  • Why don't CC make more of this kind of music? The ones they do now have no awesome guitar playing. Make it rock.

  • I bet they played this song in the movie Courageous... haven't seen it yet but want to!

  • ´´e lidah esta musica

  • Was my favorite song 3 years ago..... just found cd in my moms car, listened to it once and now I can't get it out pf my head ;) not like its a bad thing

  • my new favorite song!!!! wow casting crowns!!! :) :D :D

  • @2xtrbo

    Yea but he HAD to flood the earth. We were too sinful for him so it was either flooding the world or turning his back on us forever and sending us all to hell. And he didn't flood ALL puppies and kittens he saved 2 or 7 of each.

  • I love this song but it makes me cry every time I hear it. I have a 2yr old little girl and a boy on the way and my husband works a lot and tells me it will change after time. I sure hope it changes I am the wife in this song and its really hard telling your daughter her daddy is working when she asks for him to do their bedtime prayer...I know God is great and he has a plan for my family...I just want things to change soon!

  • alltime favorite!!

  • Love this song singing it out loud and the guy next door hitting the wall but idc im going to praise my Jesus. One day we all will b called and im going to heaven.

  • What album is this from? I forgotted c:

  • We should all be THUGS of GOD.. THUG- True Heroes Under God...

  • "he worked and he built with his own two hands..."

  • I LOVE GOD AND I LOVE THIS SONG<3<3<3<3

  • AWESOME SONG!!!

  • I heard this on the radio Saturday!! Captured my heart!! I LOVE YOU GOD!!!!!! <3 <3 <3 More than anything!!! WITH ALL MY HEART!!! MY SOUL!!! MY MIND!!! AND ALL MY STRENGTH!!!!! LOVE YOU GOD!!!!!!!!! <3 ^_^ <3

  • Thank YOU,LORD!

  • man these guys really inspire me

  • Dear god, plz help my friends and many other with no faith in you to see the light and follow you and your son our lord. AMEN

  • this song is for scott-i married the wrong broken adopted child of millionaire my bad-he broke 5 kids that hopefully won't keep the cycle going.hell, the san mateo police are as guity as he is for 5 broken kids...sorrythis was my song........

  • love casting crowns the are an awesome band and i can think GOD for putting them on this earth

  • This has hardly any religious meaning except for maybe the part "soul" and "all work no god", else this is just a song describing how the American dream can be "a shack on a rock" instead having to be a "castle of sand"

  • @DemMedHornene If you only look at the shell of the song, maybe. But you have to understand that the "Rock" is another name for God. The song is saying that materialism put before God and true happiness will cause everything to crash down in the end, no matter how good it seems.

  • @DemMedHornene

    No, no, no, you have it screwed it up. The American dream is the castle in the sand, living your life with God (the "rock") is a shack on a rock. It's in Matthew 7:24-27 and Luke 6:47-49. The Parable of two Builders. One on built his house on sand and the other on a rock. The man who built his home on sand had his home beaten and battered by the flood and wind and was destroyed (the home) the one on the rock remained safe. (Rock - God)

  • @TheQuilanvos ah well, if say it like that :P

  • @DemMedHornene in the bible it says: a wise man builds he house on the rock but a fool builds his house on the sand.

  • @Edgysamman1200 yes of course

  • This song is my Dads song.. if only he knew we were happy in a shack on a rock.. He might have been my dad for at lest a moment.

  • This song is amazing I absolutely LOVE Casting Crowns!

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  • @skalrynd

    The song is about someone who doesn't realize what his family wants most is him, not that working is bad.

  • I've been really stressed out, so this song is really speaking to me.

    Am I really building up what is most important?

    "Cause he works all day, and lies awake at night"

  • This is how you REALLY spell Joy

    J: Jesus first

    O: Others second

    Y: You last

  • @123kaminess AMEN!!!!!!

  • @123kaminess Agreed...that is the true definition of Joy...once we put Jesus first, we will truly know what happiness is ♥♥

  • God is great!! I encourage us all to share the gospel! I love Casting Crowns!! Ive been through hard and everything but God their

    I can do all things through Christ who strenghtens me- Phillipians 4:13

    Store your treasures in heaven for it you store them on earth then what sha'll we have when we die. God please I pray that you will help anyone i need give the encouragement!! Peace :)

  • who would dislike this?!?

  • Ilisbeforethemoring@ I see lots of hateful comments on these videoes

  • 7 people are chasing the Canadien dream

  • Dear onelove, When I saw what you wrote at the bottom of your comment my heart sank. That is the most terrible things you could ever say! There is a God and He loves you, even when you hate Him. I'm sure that Jesus was weeping when you wrote that because He doesn't want to lose your soul. You will regret it for eternity if you don't except Jesus Christ as your true, one and only Lord and Savior...please reconsider you thinking. HAIL GOD THE ONLY ONE WHO DESERVES TO BE PRAISED BE

  • @itisbeforethemorning For the record, he only said that to get a reaction...Congrats on giving him one.

  • Casting Crowns are so inspiring; I never use to believe in God but then things got hard and I just felt like he was there. These songs speak the truth <3

  • Best song ever. <3

  • “Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’

    “But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’"“This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”

    Lk. 12: 18-21

  • Fú de igaz...

  • so true

  • Great song and says it all about my Dad really but hey!! Im not going to lose hope for him, I still believe God can change his life for the better and I'll keep praying for him. All grace and honour to the greatest Father of al time!!! :)

  • when it comes to it... sometimes the Lord has to remind me... If i have a shack on the Rock... then i don't need the castle in sand :) what a wonderful truth

  • when it comes to it... sometimes the Lord has to remind me... If i have a shack on the Rock... then i don't need the castle in sand :) what a wonderful truth

  • Joseph DREAMS FROM THE BIBLE!

  • One of the best lyrics ive ever heard :D love it!!!

  • How is it that so many things that we lived without for years have suddenly become necessary to live with? A car? A cell phone? A simple light bulb? Our present American "Dream" isn't at all why our founding fathers succeeded from Great Britian. The dream was to be able to worship God freely. My how it's changed. I wonder where it all went awry. Let us focus on the old American dream and not our present nightmare.

  • @Jesusismy1savior Can you define an American Dream? I thought dreams were unique and personal things...

  • @TeKnoKarot The American Dream is unique to almost all Americans: get more money so you can lead a "happier" life with your family. I put happier in quotes because chasing this dream almost always leads to divorce and ruin without God as the number 1 thing in our lives. Happienes actually used to mean "being good" but now it means "feeling good" which only lasts for a short while. I hope this explains the American dream! If anyone has anything to add, please do!

  • @Jesusismy1savior The term the American dream was coined by James Truslow Adams in the 1930's the dream is not actually to get more money, its actually never defined what the dream is, the dream is subjective to what you want it to be. We seem to understand the dream now as making more money or fame and fortune but in the 1950s it was just to own a home, in the 1930's during the depression it was just to have a job. Its subjective and cant be defined!

  • @ASBlodgett Probably. Thanks for clearing that up for me :)

  • @TeKnoKarot A stereo-typical view of an american dream

    Great vid SO true 

  • i love that "id rather have a shack on the rocks then a castle in the sand" because its true.

  • @hirodagger So true, so true.

  • "For what will it profit them if they gain the whole world but loose their soul?" ~Matthew 16:26

  • I love this song mostly because it is true. The American Dream should not be about working nonstop for things we can live without. Instead, we should be focused about the gift of family God gave us. Our children will understand when they are adults if we can not give them the lastest trinkets, but they will never forgive us for missing the soccer game when they scored the winning goal.

  • I HAD VERY LITTLE WHEN I WAS YOUNG,SO I THOUGHT I WOULD TAKE APON MYSELF TO FIND THE AMERICAN ( DREAM ) THAT CAN ONLY BE FOUND IN JESUS DONT BE ONE WHO BUILDS HIS CASTLE ON THE SAND.......

    LOVE AND SPEND TIME WITH YOUR FAIMLY SO YOU DONT LOOK BACK LATER AND SEE WHAT YOU CANT REPLACE.

  • great job! thanks for posting!

  • love this song so much!! :)

  • we should get right with god before it is to late cuz god is mighty to save.

  • one the greatest songs in the World... To God be the glory now and forever... I may not be that prayerful, but God knows he will always be in my heart...

  • I lived the American dream and it disappointed me so I turned back and met with Jesus and through that I found a better path that filled my whole being.Regardes South Africa

  • this song is good it influenced me get saved at 12 and im 14 now and today i am serving god!!!!!! but you know what else is a good song type thing witches invitation!

  • I love this song. Sience I heard it during the end of church.~

    Awesome one

  • kool =D

  • kool =D

  • I really love this song its so good!! Casting Crowns are awesome!

  • i loved this song when i was little and still do and i know all the words

  • hey nano 250 noone dies its just that at the end him and his family kindof seperate cause he spends so much time working but at the end he turns and spends more time with them if u watch the music video it makes since... and awesome song the beat and lyrics are great!!!

  • One of my favorite Casting Crowns Songs! Glory to the son of God! Thanks for posting!

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  • Awesome song... but explain me: At the end... He (the father) died?.. or did he lose his family?... or his son died?...

    What at the end is the same... =(

    I think everyone of us use to forget the main point of our lives, we dedicated so hard to our work, studies, business... and what about GOD?.. what about our families?... We still have time!... we can do it better day by day...

  • i guess it is cuz at the beginning it was talkin bout how the father woork all the time and his ~castle made of sand~ im pretty sure...

  • Yeah I was wondering that too. I was thinking that maybe the parents divorced because the father wasn't paying any attention to his family, but I don't know.

  • ok never mind yeah he probably died i just listened to the song again and yeah...

  • love casting crowns, i went to there concert

  • This is how I use to feel about my mom. She would try to buy our love. But she got laid off. I still don't get to spend much time with her so I enjoy every minute of it.

  • you know the book ( well play ) Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, this song would go PERFECTLY

  • I love this song!!! Great video!

  • now this makes sense when the world around u makes u think otherwise...its a blessing

  • i love this sooo much this is my fav song!

  • wow, we can easily get caught up in satans snares. i just want to thank Him for putting people out there that keep our "eyes on the prize" Christ!

  • This song is a story of my life. It happens to us Type A people who try to build things but forget the most important things in our life = our families and our children.

  • so he works and he built

  • even thow this band is really dull i kind of like the song

  • My fav song!

  • this is awesome.....great work guys and merry christmas

  • i'm reading the book death of a salesman in school right now, and all i can thin of is this song

  • this song reminds me of rascal flats "stand" in the courus

  • NICE song.... put GOD first into our LIFES..love this song so much

  • Amazing son. This song really opened me up

  • I'm not very big on any music but I like this song.

  • i dont believe in religion but 99% of fucking americans should be slapped in the face with this song ~dakk Fuck u if u think diffrent

  • but this song is allabout religion..? lol or atleast about a guy who put money b4 everything.

  • wat ur saying is true, but u need to calm down wit all dat cursing u need to show some respect

  • so true but cut down on the cussing

  • its about realizing and embracing God's grace, casting away our preoccupations with worldly wealth

  • casting away, casting crows, heh, i get it!

  • he replaced god with money, and put money b4 his family

  • This song comes from a parable that jesus spoke in the bible he tlkd about a man who was worldly and built a castle on a foundation of sand but there was also a man who believed in god and he didnt have much money or anything and he built a shack on rock its gods way of saying how us people shouldnt b concerned with worldly stuff but we should care about god so yes its about religion not what religion your in about God alone message me and ill tell you more about God

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  • i was replying to bookwormgrl1 hahaha not you :)

  • dull boy hahahaaha

  • this is what i understand from the son that you should put God first and the rest will be given to you ps i am adventist

  • this is like a lesson money isnt everything.

  • esta cancion es genial!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Rather annoyed they didn't sing this went I went to their concert. Amazing concert though!

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  • It's about being reborn

  • stop bickering i told someone the other day who questioned my faith that everyone has 2 choices beleive or not. if ur right fine i haven't lost anything but if i'm right you've lost everything seem like a lot to risk 2 me

  • its about the heart. not the head.

  • Why should I? I'm able to think and live on my own, I don't need a metaphysic creature, who can never be veryfied.

    If you want to know: I'm an Ignostician. God can neither be verifyfied nor falsified, so theres no question, if he exists or not. And because of this, the existance or non-existance of god has no influence on my life.

    (excuse me, me english is far from perfect. I hope it's understandable). :)

  • God is real and if u need proof read the Bible everybody needs 2 believe in God but i mean its your opinion

  • u dont even need to look in the bible just look around in the nature. i dont believe that such a beautifull thing as the nature and the animals could be an accident that happened ten billions years ago. its too beautifull

  • well yeah thts true! too

  • What far too many people do not realize is that though Christians take a lot on faith, there is still a lot of evidence. We are thinking, some of us scientific, people too. Have you looked for the evidence. It's out there. There are books, websites, and other sources dedicated to giving people like you some "proof"

  • As for your statement about God being neither verifyed nor falsified. What about all the other scientific theories that are taken as fact such as global warming and evolution. There is definitely evidence that could be interpreted for both. But there is no unquestionable proof that puts the theories beyond falfifying and verifying.

  • For those of you who don't believe, this is not me trying to criticize you. I merely want to give you the option.

  • I'm not christian, but...yes, in case of the American Dream, they're definatly right. First you want, then you do, and in the end, it doesn't work.

    Manu.

  • People, stop giving this guy trouble, why make a negative comment or give him thumbs down? Im a christian, but are we no better than those terrorist who are killing others "in the name of there god" if we just say his relgions wrong? theyre attacking us cuz they think our religions wrong. so who cares if hes not christian? thats his decsion.

  • i absolutley love this song. casting crown sings the truth

  • im a hardcore metal fan, but im a Christian, and most contemporary Christian music sounds generic and too soft, but somethings different about casting crowns

  • You should try bands like Skillet. There is heavier Christian rock music too.

  • omg casting crowns rock this song is really good but if u think this song has a good meaning you should hear WHAT IF HIS PEOPLE PRAYED

  • im so agree with u even though that i REALLY love this song then its doesent have quite the same good meaning so i love both

  • yeah me and my friends r going 2 try 2 make a drama up 2 it

  • pretty cool :)

  • ur a christian yeh, so how can u say "omg"?

    herd of the third commandment?

  • yes i have have u heard of oh my goodness thts wat i mean by tht

  • well i suggest dont say that again cos its widely accepted as blasphemous

  • it could mean omgosh... -.-

  • I love this band because they take things people actually have to go through and how people feel

  • crap go away freak

  • the beauty of all songs is that they all remind us of things in our own life, even if its just one lyric.

    this song to me, is singing of a father who only ever worked and spent no time with his family, though he did it for them to have finer things, those things didnt really matter to them, cause they only ever wanted him around, and since he was gone so much, his family slipped away and now hes alone, and his kingdom falling apart.

  • ....that is how my dad is sometimes I need to send this to him

  • misha

    the lyricist of this song clearly observed the existing set of wrong priorities that we have..what a wasted life... but we can reset priorities with the Lord Jesus as our guide..

  • i love this song, i didnt know it existed until like 3 days ago <3

  • "all He ever wanted was you." God wants you. Serve Him but Love HIm. God just wants you.

  • dat lied is voll assi

  • thank you very much Ecoi 1:) this does make sense and it helped me a lot!

  • could somebody please tell me what he exatly means with his: kingdom? i don´t understand it really

  • From how I understand it, it is his world view or lifestyle. Basically, it's saying that he is working to make his own way to what he wants (the American Dream). However, the song is saying that his foundation (the sand) is not that strong. He's building his world view and lifestyle on sand, which in time it will fail. Make sense? =)?

  • this is a great song you guys made i have it on myspace on my profile i could listen to this song over and over again keep it up guys.

  • this is one of my fav. songs i listen to it over and over and never get tired of it((:

  • This is my favorite song! I cannot believe after all these times on YouTube I forgot to put this in my favorites!

  • Awesome band!!!!!!!!

  • thx..... awesome.....

    thx again..

  • whoa thank you!!..i have been looking for this song on youtube for so long! I love it!

    Thankkkkkk you! :)

  • Glad you like it :)

  • Sup!!!!

  • This is my favorite song!

  • I have heard every casting crown song.. excpet this one til now. and i have to say this is my fave for sure. It has such an incredible message and i heard it at like just the right time in my life.

  • This is my favorite song. It can help people in a struggle today. It really lifts my sprit in Christ.

  • I love this song. It has such a good message!

  • It's a really important message today, there's so many people going through stuff like that :)

  • tahst pretty cool! i lve casting crowns!

    american dream ttly represents my dad right now! love you through christ!

  • hey my best friends older brother is in this band [chris]hes AWSOME!!! if you dont believe me you can txt me and ill gv u his lil brothers number seriously hes AWSOME

  • That's pretty awesome, knowing someone in a band like this!

  • whats his #!!!

  • cuz he works all day and trys to sleep at night! he is conceerned about his religion status if you would like lyrics inturperted for you i can help reply to this comment

  • nice lyrics!!!! love this song its a must listen to song of the whole year!!!!!!! go casting crowns

  • I love this band! this is the best christian rock band i know espiaciially the song does anybody hear her

  • Does Anybody Hear Her is a good song too. I really like We Are the Body, though. ;)

  • i really like if we are the body to!

  • i love both of them

  • 15 our of 10 stars!

  • Go Casting Crowns!!

  • I love Casting Crowns! Im gonna buy this cd when I'm at Best Buy! Go Casting Crowns!!