Featured Music Video | Mess Of Me

Today’s featured music video is by the award winning band of Christian rockers known as Switchfoot. Known for their hard and heavy guitar rifts and power ballads, Switchfoot has been around since 1996 and have produced a number of hit albums.

In light of the current sermon series at CityWest – “Invasion Of God” – a common theme is repentance.  Repentance is simply an acknowledgement of something wrong in your life, confessing it and turning your back on it and conquering it with the help of God.

Switchfoot fits into this mindset perfectly.  All five members are surfing fanatics and the word “switchfoot” is a surfing term as lead singer Jon Foreman explains..

“We all love to surf and have been surfing all our lives so to us, the name made sense. To switch your feet means to take a new stance facing the opposite direction. It’s about change and movement, a different way of approaching life..”

When we see sin in our lives, it’s always a good idea to “switchfoot” – turn and face the opposite direction.  But a prerequisite of this is to actually acknowledge the mess in our life in the first place.  As fallen human beings, this is a tough place to go – to admit that we haven’t got it “all together” as we make it out to be.

But if we are honest with ourselves, it’s often very plain of the mess we have made of our lives and the need to “switchfoot”.  In this light, we hope you enjoy “Mess Of Me” from Switchfoot’s new album, “Hello Hurricane”.  Lyrics are below the video.

I am my own affliction
I am my own disease
There ain’t no drug that they could sell
Ah there ain’t no drugs to make me well
There ain’t no drugs
It’s not enough
There ain’t no drugs
The sickness is myself
– Chorus –
I made a mess of me I wanna get back the rest of me
I’ve made a mess of me I wanna spend the rest of my life alive
I’ve made a mess of me I wanna reverse this tragedy
I’ve made a mess of me I wanna spend the rest of my live alive
The rest of my life alive!
We lock our souls in cages
We hide inside our shells
It’s hard to feed to the ones you love
Oh when you can’t forgive yourself
Yeah forgive yourself!
There ain’t no drugs
There ain’t no drugs
There ain’t no drugs
The sickness is myself
– Chorus –
I made a mess of me I wanna get back the rest of me
I’ve made a mess of me I wanna spend the rest of my life alive
I’ve made a mess of me I wanna reverse this tragedy
I’ve made a mess of me I wanna spend the rest of my live alive
The rest of my life alive!
AHHHHHHOOOOO!
There ain’t no drug
There ain’t no drug
There ain’t no drug
No drugs to make me well
There ain’t no drug
It’s not enough
We´re breaking up
The sickness is myself
The sickness is myself
– Chorus –
I made a mess of me I wanna get back the rest of me
I’ve made a mess of me I wanna spend the rest of my life alive
I’ve made a mess of me I wanna reverse this tragedy
I’ve made a mess of me I wanna spend the rest of my live alive
The rest of my life alive!