Hey guys, we just wanted to apologize for all the down time LOBH has been having recently – we’re having problems with our host, so we’re attempting to fix the issue by trying out a new host, but all the moving around can get messy! Hang with us and know that we’ll have it all worked out soon! (And leave a nice message for Kevin in the comments – our tech master who has been working so hard to fix this for you all!)
Now for the Switchfoot news!
First and foremost… new Switchfoot podcast! Check out this awesome video montage of the guys in Latin America:
Now a LOT of you guys have been asking about where you can get that Yet remix, so in case you missed out, here’s the scoop – Darren King from Mute Math created that remix a few months ago and Switchfoot is still giving it away as a free download. All you have to do is sign up right HERE. Enjoy!
Next, Fox 5 News channel in San Diego did a special on Switchfoot last week – and here’s a video of the special!:
^ I love how everyone is saying “Grammy Award Winning” band now! But… “Jone” Foreman??
The Switchfoot Bro-Am website has been updated with all the info for the 7th Annual Switchfoot Bro-Am! Details on the auction, beach event and afterparty, plus a video promo for the 2011 event. Click right HERE to check it out and be sure to mark your calendars for the day!
Hey Australia, Switchfoot will be making a stop at your Strawberry Jam Festival! Take a look at the poster for the event:
Discussion Point: It’s time for our weekly Monday Comes Around Song Discussion! This week we are going to be discussing one of my favorite Switchfoot tunes You (The Legend of Chin). Here’s Jon’s song story:
You
This song is a response to the questions that are brought up in ‘Life and Love and Why.’ Stating my limitations as a human, ‘You’ discusses the hope and security that I can find, ‘not in me’, but in Christ. ‘Whoever wants to save his life will lose it’. Jesus says in Matthew 16:25, ‘but whoever loses his life for me will find it’. We must recognize that life and freedom and meaning cannot be found within ourselves (our finite experiences here on earth can have no metaphysical foundation in the moment or in our lives). But in Christ, our infinite, personal creator, we have meaning and truth. C.S. Lewis asks, ‘To whom will you look for help if you will not look to He who is stronger than yourself?’ As Christians we are called to look exclusively to Christ and live for Him with all that we are. He must increase and I must decrease.
This song, for me, is the “surprise” on Legend of Chin. I remember the VERY first time I ever heard the LOC album, over 6 years ago, this tune really leaped out at me – maybe because it stood out so much from the light hearted punk/rock of the majority of the other songs on the album. To this day, it remains one of my favorite Switchfoot songs – it’s simply beautiful. So what are your thoughts on the song? What does it mean to you? Is this a song that comforts you or do you listen to it when you’re down? What’s your favorite part of the song? Share in the comments below!
I was just listening to that today! I love this song… The lyrics are poetic (as with %99 percent of all Switchfoot songs). Not much else to say on this song- except that I almost always love their songs that are overtly Christian.
Hi Jeanna! I also really love this song a lot. It is very sincere. When I listen to it, I just stop with whatever I’m doing. It’s always like listening to it the first time.
“Jone Foreman” haha
Headed to the Bro-Am for the first time! cant wait..super stoked!
“You”
i think Jon hit the nail on the head with this one. This song means so much to me at such a personal level. There has been so many times where i question why my existence and think about how fragile my life is and how limited my abilities are and how narrow my understanding is. But In Christ is where i am made whole. I looked for so long, my identity, my purpose, my hope, and all of this is found on one Magnificent Being. I will never even come close to understanding who and what God is, but like the song says, “I find peace when im confused.” to know that i will never fully know God is wonderful. i am continually being amazed by what God has done and where He has put me in my life.
Listening to this song, i find Hope in something bigger than myself and that is freeing.
When I first heard it recently(I’m still unearthing all of SF’s music as they are new to me), I couldn’t stop listening to it over and over, just that one song back to back. It has a strange effect on me because as soothing as Jon’s voice and the melody is, it both soothes and aggitates me emotionally. Not sure why… I’m confused haha . But I think it’s simply a beautifully gorgeous song. Seriously, SF can do no wrong in my eyes…I love how diverse their music is. I think it’s a true reflection of the group as individuals. Never a dull moment! Even in the quiet.
I love the lyrics to this song. I like to listen to it when I’m riding in the car at night.
The lyrics are pretty self-explanetory for me,
“There’s always something in the way, there’s always something getting through.” I’ve had that feeling before, when I’m wanting to do something I know I shouldn’t, there’s always something in the way, always something telling me I shouldn’t do it, always something holding me back. Some might say it’s mearly my concience, but I believe it’s God, trying to keep me on track.
“I find peace when I’m confused,
and I find hope when I’m let down.”
These lyrics for me talk about the hope I have in my faith. When the world may let me down, or when I’m confused, I still have the deep hope in Christ. I still have peace.
“I hope to lose myself for good,
I hope to find it in the end,
but not in me, in you.”
This is almost exact to the scripture that says, “Whoever loses his life for me, shall find it.” That’s not exact as far as wording, but it’s close.
Like I said, the song seems pretty self-explanetory, but that’s what it means for me, personally, anyway. A song is pretty much whatever you make of it.
The video of “You” on YouTube that has clips from “A Walk to Remember” has 4,981,192 views (I think that the only other Switchfoot video that has more is the “Dare You to Move” music video [on @SwitchfootVEVO]). I think that says something about how good the song is, both from a lyrical standpoint and an instrumental/vocal standpoint: the song has beautiful poetic lyrics, and the strumming pattern is simply amazing. Even if the lyrics weren’t so poetic, the song would portray an essential message: don’t rely on yourself or others, rely on Christ.
Scratch that part about the music video for “Dare You to Move” being the Switchfoot video with the most views; it’s a clip from “A Walk to Remember” of Mandy Moore’s cover of “Only Hope”. But, really, that doesn’t count.
(The video “Mandy Moore – Only Hope” has 19,739,954 views.)
Awesome video of Jon, or “Jone”
And thanks Kevin for all your hard work! I don’t know what I would do without this site…
ahahaha!
at the end”to be Continued” *tim turns head*
LOL!
“You” is such an amazing masterpiece! I love the line “Sometimes ignorance rings true”
It really hits home hard for me, because no matter how great we think that we are, in the end our ignorance DOES ring true and we have to realize that we are fully God’s creation and that we are only fully ourselves when we are in Christ…..definitely one of their more “Christian” songs and I am really fond of it!
“You” was the first ever Switchfoot song I heard, and still one of my all- time favorites
This was a song that really hit hard the first time I ever heard it. I remember listening to it over and over again on repeat, just relishing the soothing vocals, the calming music, and the song’s overall message of hopeful dependence on God. I really like how Jeanna put it – it’s a surprise… indeed it is. You certainly don’t expect it, and because it’s near the end of the tracklist, you assume you already have a feel for the sound of this album. And then this song comes. And because it takes you by surprise, you cannot help but give it your full attention.
I love how Jon says that it serves as a response to the questions brought up in Life and Love and Why. After all, there’s a time for questions: “Can it be You? Can it be You?” And then there’s a time for discovery: “It’s You, it’s You”. And that’s what this song feels like to me, a song of surprised discovery. And maybe that’s what discovery really is – after all the chaos and the noise and the questions, it’s a beautiful and oftentimes unexpected time of serene peace. Of course, this is not to say that the questions and the doubt ends with such a discovery. Not at all – faith itself is the belief in what we cannot know for sure, and The Legend of Chin quickly picks up once again with the noise and the questions. But the discovery and the peace is still there, and if it’s all that I know – well, it’s more than enough.
OMG!! I’m kinda famous now!!! I am in the Bro-Am poster on this post between Jon and Chad with the grey shirt and hat!!!
Haha, this is awesome!
That’s awesome dude!!!
this song is why i started listening to switchfoot! i remember hearing it in A Walk to Remember, and as soon as it played, i thought, “i have to get this soundtrack!” the rest is history
it sums up the contradictions of faith so well. one of my favorites, even though pretty much whichever SF song i’m listening to at the moment i feel is my fav 
Wow! Such great comments about the song “You.” I don’t know what to add. I felt a connection to this song the first time I heard it. “You’re all I know” speaks to a desperate soul holding on to faith in spite of oneself. That’s me at times…more times than I like to admit. I love the strings in this song. It makes the melody soar. And I love it at the end when Jon sings “It’s You” over and over and in the background “It’s all I know” is like an echo that continues to ring in the heart. Mhm, mhm, mhm, love me some SF.
Enjoyed the podcast. Poor Timmy. He’s so sleepy. There is something thought-provoking about the comment “You’ll sleep when you’re dead.” Sometimes I think I sleep like I’m dead. Oh well, I’ll save that for my therapist
Thanks for all the hard work in keeping the site top-notch. I love me some LOBH too!
Since I go to a Catholic school, in my theology class I had to find a song in which the lyrics had some type of way in which they could be related to the faith.
I chose the song “You” and my friend chose “On Fire”. Yeah!
My favorite line of this song is:
“i find peace when
i’m confused
i find hope when
i’m let down
not in me … me
in You
it’s in you”
p.s. I also noticed the in the Latin America Tour, Switchfoot went back to their original lineup with Tim on stage right and Drew and Jerome on the stage left. Hmmmm… just something interesting.
Pretty sure lineup was because Drew wasn’t there (remember his wifeeee was having the bambina)
my bad, of course. I feel kinda sorry for the South American fans because they couldn’t see Drew, but duty calls!!!
high school
let’s not play that game!!! You are only as old as you feel and act. And the youngens are allow to have taste
“it’s *Jon* foreman, don’t call him Jone…”
I like Jon’s smile at 1:48. Oh man, I miss seeing these guys up in my area. Somebody needs to get them up to northern california!
When I was in 7th grade I was really into buying CDs with any money I got. One of my Christmas presents that year was a Target gift card. So I scoped out the music section and saw Switchfoot: The Early Years for just $10 – and I couldn’t pass up such a great deal. Now, my parents were pretty cautious about what music I listened to, desiring that I listen to mellow, average Christian music. As I went through the SF tunes on those three albums, I found that only a few would be deemed appropriate to play within my parents’ hearing. “You” was one of those. In fact, “You” was put on repeat. Often.
I’m a bit older these days, and listen to a whole lot more SF/Jon tunes than “You”, but that song still has substance in my mind. As someone who does a lot of thinking, reading, and writing, the lines proclaiming that “hope is not in what I know, not in me, it’s in You” really remind me that I am not paramount, but that God is. He’s got more wisdom than I do, he’s got better ideas about things, and he is the why to what we seek. I guess, more than anything, this song reminds me that I must decrease and Christ must increase.