Flyleaf - Introduction and Story for There For You

Lacey talking about the song "There For You". Here is what she says:
"So really and truly, we're not anybody better than anybody else. We're from small towns in Texas. We all still live in the Temple, Belton area, all those tiny places, they're really small. But I grew up with my mom who was a single mom of 6 kids, and we had a really hard time trying to make ends meet... feeding eachother and stuff like that. And we lived in kind of a big city, I grew up in Arlington [TX]. But the thing is, being a kid in a big family, kind of in a big city, that was really poor... my mom always wanted us to go to a good school, so we got made fun of alot because we didn't have clothes like them, we didn't have stuff like they did. It was not popular to have "free lunch" and all that crap or whatever. Haha, give it up for "free lunch"! If your mom filled out the paper, they gave you a peanut butter sandwhich with no jelly; it was good. But the thing is, out of all of that, we weren't better than anybody else, we were just like anybody else. And the thing is, I should have died a million times. I should have died on accident a bunch of times. I should have died from other people trying to kill me. I should have died from crazy driving. I should have died when I was 16, when i planned to commit suicide. And i was an atheist until then. I was an atheist, and what the heck, if life sucks what do you have to live for? If you're and atheist, it's just about living, you know? So at the time, I didn't want to wake up anymore and then seriously, God chased me down and proved that he was real and that he loved me! It's so awesome that you guys can cheer for that because alot of people don't know what that feels like. They don't know that feeling of God showing up and loving them. They don't believe in God because they've never seen him. All they've seen is crap and alot of bad things happening. I didn't even believe in God and when I was 10 years old, I stopped believing because my cousin was beat to death, and he was 3, and I didn't understand that, and how could God be loving. But at the same time, He chased me down at 16 years old and said, "no matter what you've done." My whole purpose in life was to prove that God didn't exist, and that christians are naive and that blah, blah, blah. You know, I was really a smart alec that didn't know anything. But at the same time, He still, even though i was so against Him, still wanted me to know that He loved me and didn't want me to die the next day. So i'm still here! I didn't know why God wanted me to stay alive. So the next day, I woke up and I was like," Okay, I wasn't supposed to wake up today, so what do you want? What do you want me to do?" And day by day that was how it was. And I had no idea... I didn't believe in This! My mom was a musician, and I thought musician equals poor and no food! I didn't want to do this at all, because I didn't believe in it. And so here's where we are, and it's an amazing miracle. It doesn't have anything to do with us being better than anyone else, it's just that God is amazing. And He can do that with anybody. So, haha, the point is that He was there for us... and everyone in the band has a story of their own. And i'm sure everyone in the audience has their own story and where they're at in their life. But the thing is, if somebody had told me that God loved me, I would have laughed and said,"Oh, well you don't know my life." But I know it was important for me to hear anyway. So I just want to tell you guys, everyone in here that God really really loves you. I know it because I can feel it in my chest! And so He's been there for me, so we want to be there for Him. That's what this song is about. So thank you guys very much, we love you very much here. We're so thankful to be here, so glad I can see all your faces.

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• Flyleaf
• There
• For
• You
• Tyler
• TX
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• Lacey
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• Sturm
• Jared
• Hartman
• Sameer
• Bhattacharya
• Pat
• Seals
• James
• Culpepper

[XxNiaBabiexX]

I love flyleaf :)

I live in Temple and I go to Belton High =]

[mnsalas07]

thats awesum. do u ever just see any of the band members walkin around? lol i wanna visit belton/ temple just because of flyleaf :)

[cineata]

"l stopped breathing because my cousin was beat to death, and he was 3, and I didn't understand that, and how could God be loving" I think that it's believing, not breathing..

But I liked how you tried to get all the words.. It's helpful. Thanks.

[mnsalas07]

lol thanx for catching that. it took me forever to type it up... : )

[SoClose2MeUNearlyDie]

oh my...i can not help but cry. I love how Lacey so honest and open about everything. I helps me believe more and more. i can not thank her enough for all her speeches or the band for their music. And i want to thank you for posting this. god bless.

[swima94]

Her belief is totally illogic. She just lost a shit tonne of respect. Fucking crappy story too.

[TheBinky333]

COME 2 LAS VEGAS SOON!!!! PLLLLLLZZZZ

[StatuSChecKa]

hey thanks for the vid Salas, they are great.

[casiash]

gosh, and here i am giving up on everything, my faith. and even tho, he still loves me.

[XxNiaBabiexX]

hah noo.

lol belton/temple is laaammeee.

nothin happens here.

[lovegoodmusic4all]

thanks you flyleaf !!

want to see u in germany :-)