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Sometimes I feel like I've seen way too many things in life. Blessed with physical comfort, youth, and ease. Yet my mind plagues me with insecurities regarding who I am and who I'll never get the chance to be. I see the way of the world getting darker and darker, and you call me a light? Sometimes I just don't understand why.

Do you remember when I was just a candle? A wayward stick of wax, a wick with no chance of fire. Damp, in the darkest cave, I still think back on those days and wonder how, and why, You struck me aflame.

And since that day you've shown me just how dark the world really is. How every motive behind every action takes the wind from my lungs and leaves a panic in my mind. It's no wonder you needed to step in. How can we say we love You? How can You accept our pleas? How can we hold up hands of worship while we sit on thrones of greed?

Why am I so disgusted by the actions of others? So offended by others in need. Because behind the eyes that have done me wrong, I see the same desires in myself...

I see me.

But you knew the whole time what we were meant to be. No longer defined by chipped wax and scars, our identity fully in the flame that refines into who we truly are. We are no longed chained to wrong done against us. Nor are we the sum of greatest failures we can remember. We are the sum of a promise made before all of this...

Before you were afraid to die.
Before you lost sleep at night.
Before your father laid a hand on you.
Before his father laid a hand on him.
Before sick and twisted men ruined the word "love" for you.
Before you felt the need to show your body, 'cause no one taught you how to show the world your heart.
Before your parents walked out on each other.
Before their vows became conditional agreements.
And before you blamed yourself.
Before your grandmother passed away.
Before your grandfather passed away.
Before my grandfather passed away.
And you regretted how you treated them.
Before certain thoughts crossed your mind.

He was there.

Though you run, and though you're weak. He was with you.

Though I run, though I'm weak, You are with me.
Though I run, though I'm numb, You are with me.

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from When Wings Take Root, released August 30, 2014

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Andrew Warner Mishawaka, Indiana

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Controlled, yet angry and self reflective pop punk.

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