Switchfoot - Restless

RESTLESS

I am the sea on a moonless night
Calling falling, slipping tides
I am the leaky, dripping pipes
The endless, aching drops of light

I am the raindrop falling down
Always longing for the deeper ground
I am the broken, breaking seas
Even my blood finds ways to bleed

Even the rivers ways to run
Even the rain to reach the sun
Even my thirsty streams
Even in my dreams

I am restless, restless, restless
Looking for you
I am restless
I run like the ocean to find your shore
Looking for you

I am the thorn stuck in your side
I am the one that you left behind
I am the dried-up doubting eyes
Looking for the well that won't run dry

Running hard for the other side
The world that I've always been denied
Running hard for the infinite
With the tears of saints and hypocrites

Oh, blood of black and white and grey
Oh, death in life and night in day
One by one by one
We let our rivers run

I can hear you breathing
I can feel you leading
More than just a feeling
More than just a feeling

I can feel you you reaching
Pushing through the ceiling
Til the final healing
I'm looking for you

Until the sea of glass we meet
At last completed and complete
Where tide and tear and pain subside
And laughter drinks them dry

I'll be waiting
Anticipating
All that I aim for
What I was made for

With every heartbeat
All of my blood bleeds
Running inside me
Looking for you

Restless



Director: Tom Aiello
Edited by: Paul Kerby

Video shot at Hurley Studios & other locations

Category:

Music

[BassBwoy3]

Bet people didn't know this song was about a restless soul waiting for Jesus to come back. ;)

[bjdyke1]

Man, We NEVER get what we want or need fully here in our limited lives. BUT we can know God and begin a life that carries on forever. When you have had difficult things happen in your life, which most of us do at some point, there is no other philosophy that makes sense of 'eternity written in our hearts', of being 'born to frustration' of 'creation longing for the children of God to be revealed'. My wife died of cancer and I was left with 2 young kids. Only Jesus takes the pain away.

[amateurschallenge]

look at the typed lyrics. Line 29 should say 'where their rivers run" instead of "we let our rivers run" :P

[altqz]

@jorikd94 I agree, havent been able to get my mind of it,been praying since i found out

[4evrbest]

I love this song. I can relate to it so much, it just speaks to me. Thank you Switchfoot for this awesome music!

[jorikd94]

#PrayforJonForeman His baby girl is in the hospital :(!

And we're all Restless hoping she's ok.

[4theLoveofGod15]

The fire of God upon this band is AMAZINGLY POWERFUL <3 SW <3

[mkeck11]

That is what makes Switchfoot the perfect band. You can relate their songs to however you feel. You can certainly take this song and most of their music and mold it into a relationship with the Lord but you can also look into it differently. I think its Switchfoot's way of appealing to soo many people.

[RephaimAOD]

@brayingmonKEY Why? Because there's pretty good chances that it's about the speaker's search for God, if you analysed the lyrics and put it in context of who Switchfoot are and where they came from. It's very consistent in the imagery throughout the song, and it's not forced at all if the "you" here refers to God. However as much as others have interpreted it as a song about God, Switchfoot deliberately couch their music so everybody can find meaning in it, personal works too.

[brayingmonKEY]

I don't know why people attach the song with Jesus or God.

I think the song is more about the soul, i can relate more this song on a personal level than through god.

[eghamby]

"Lookin' for the well that won't run dry" how perfectly that describes us as humans. Always seeking to fill that void. But we can find it in Jesus! Oh the anticipation surrounding the return of Jesus! Thank you God for giving Switchfoot this song and thank you Switchfoot for executing this calling God has given you! It is truly a blessing.

[JMARTZ98]

those 15 people that dislike this must be justin bieber and ke$ha...