- The Sound (John Perkins Blues)

This is the sound of a heartbeat.

This is the sound of the discontented mouths

Of a haunted nation. We are the voice of breaking down.

Can you hear me? This is the sound

Of a desperation bound

By our own collisions 

We are the voice of breaking down.

 So, this is the lyrics to the course of one of my favorite songs by switchfoot. 

It pretty much sums up what I've talked about for the last couple of blogs. Whenever Jon Foreman talks about sound, it usually symbolizes love. So I believe that when he says "sound of a heartbeat" I think he could be talking about our human-version of love. Then it goes on to say that we're discontented and haunted. Meaning even though we've changed love to meet our "needs" we're still unsatisfied and unsettled by everything around us. Then he simply says that this is just a path to destruction. "This is the sound of a desperation bound by our own collisions."

This is, of course, my simple interpretation of the song. Just kinda what it said to me. And it was a sudden realization to me that it had a lot to do with what I was writting about on my blog.