Cannonball!

This is a reply to a supportive e-mail that I received about my last post, but I wanted to make the reply public. Most of the songs that I listen to I like because of the music: the beat, the melody, whatever it is. But there are a few songs that have some amazing lyrics that I just love.

"Cannonball" by Five Iron Frenzy (iTunes links) is one of those songs. Read along with me the words:

Wind passes right through my skin as I fall down, this furious speed will only destroy me.
Crippling and devastating momentum, approaching maximum velocity.
And this is how it's going to be, the point of it all.
'Cause this is what was meant for me, recklessly I fall.

(chorus)
Hulking, smashing, I come crashing, nothing like when I was small.
I am unstoppable, I am the cannonball.
That feeble coward that you knew, has undergone an overhaul.
I am unstoppable, I am the cannonball.

Thirty-two feet per second I increase, as the exponents will multiply.
I'll never stop to look back behind me, cutting through the bright blue sky.
And this is how it's meant to be, untethered I will soar.
I'll barrel towards the earth below, it's what I was made for.

(chorus)
Hulking, smashing, I come crashing, nothing like when I was small.
I am unstoppable, I am the cannonball.
That feeble coward that you knew, has undergone an overhaul.
I am unstoppable, I am the cannonball.

[pause for a second]
Let me pause it here for a second. What is the song trying to say? "I am a cannonball and I will destroy everything in my past?" Yup. But what does that mean? Well, of course, the bridge explains it. Read it slowly:

[play]
And everyone will say it's just an accident, like some mishap or a tragedy.
I think that failure has a purpose, and I don't believe it's chance if I fall.
And I know that if I ever do fall, He will catch me.
And if He ever lets me fall down, for the good of those who believe Him,
He will make me into a cannonball.

Unblemished, and faultless. A burning luminescence.
Unequaled precision, beyond your scope of vision. Cannonball.

[end]
This song, while lighthearted, gives me great support. It reminds me that even when I fall short of the Glory of God, I can still do amazing damage to Satan.

Matthew