MIT Cross Products - "Be My Escape" by Relient K

Solo: Geoffrey
Perc: Martin, Ron

The following is copied from the concert flyer:
"There's an incredible amount of wordplay and dense wording in this song, and there's not space in here to go into it all, but the core of the song is the last line. All I was trying to do was save my own skin -- hold on desperately to the familiar, though it imprisoned me -- but God's purpose, all the time, was also to save me. Though I struggle with "my own humanity," things like stress, burnout, and despair, His grace has made "life not fair" beyond what I can manage on my own, and when I allow the "death of me" and my human nature, it is then that I find abundant life" ~ Geoffrey

LYRICS:
I've given up on giving up slowly,
I'm blending in so You won't even know me
apart from this whole world that shares my fate
This one last bullet you mention
is my one last shot at redemption
because I know to live you must give your life away

And I've been housing all this doubt and insecurity
and I've been locked inside that house
all the while You hold the key
And I've been dying to get out
and that might be the death of me
And even though there's no way in knowing where to go,
promise I'm going because

I gotta get outta here
I'm stuck inside this rut that I fell into by mistake
I gotta get outta here
And I'm begging You, I'm begging You,
I'm begging You to be my escape.

I'm giving up on doing this alone now
Cause I've failed and I'm ready to be shown how
He's told me the way and I'm trying to get there
And this life sentence that I'm serving
I admit that I'm every bit deserving
But the beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair

I am a hostage to my own humanity
Self-detained and forced to live in this mess I've made
And all I'm asking is for You to do what You can with me
But I can't ask You to give what You already gave

I fought You for so long
I should have let You in
Oh how we regret those things we do
And all I was trying to do
Was save my own skin
But so were You
So were You


Footage taken at MIT Cross Products' Fall Concert on 12/4/10

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