Learning to Breathe (2000)
Easily one of Switchfoot’s most noted albums, Learning to Breathe also featured 2 songs that appeared in the movie “A Walk to Remember”. The song “Dare You to Move” even gained some mainstream radio play for a time in the early 2000’s. The phrase “Love is the Movement” even became the slogan of the movement, “To Write Love on Her Arms”; a non profit organization that brings awareness to and stands against self harm.
My Favorite Songs: The Loser, Innocence Again, Dare You to Move
Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone’s here
Everyone’s here
Everybody’s watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before
Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistance
The tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before
Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here
Hello, good morning, how you do?
What makes your rising sun so new?
I could use a fresh beginning too
All of my regrets are nothing new
So this is the way that I say I need You
This is the way that I’m
Learning to breathe
I’m learning to crawl
I’m finding that You and You alone can break my fall
I’m living again
Awake and alive
I’m dying to breathe in these abundant skies
Hello, good morning, how you been?
Yesterday left my head kicked in
I never, never thought that I would fall like that
Never knew that I could hurt this back
I’m learning to breathe
Learning to crawl
I’m finding that You and You alone can break my fall
I’m living again
Awake and alive
I’m dying to breathe in these abundant skies
So this is the way I say I need You
This is the way that I say I love You
This is the way that I say I’m Yours
This is the way
This is the way
When all I have is on the floor
Divided, divided
When I’m a world away from peace
Behind Your eyes is where I know
I’ll find it, I’ll find it
‘Cause who You are defines my dreams
You already take me there
Heaven in the here and now
When I’m a broken-hearted man
Complacent and tired
When I’ve been knocked out of the race
I’ve been a fool for long enough
To fight it, to fight it
It’s in Your arms I find my place
You meet me where I am
Forgive me where I am
Where I lose myself in grace
(Where I’m lost and found)
I want to lose myself in grace
Let Your love reign down all over me
(over me)
Cover me
A day in LA
And millions of faces
Are looking for a movement
Cause everything’s stuck
And everything’s frozen
And everyone’s broken
And nobody moves
And everyone’s scared
That the motion will never come
This is the incompletion
Stuck in a line
Love is the movement
Love is a revolution
This is redemption
We don’t have to slow back down
The stars are alive
They dance to the music
Of the deepest emotion
And all of the world
Is singing in time
As the heavens are caving in
Mysterious ways
Why God gave His life
To put motion inside my soul
It’s bigger than cold religion
It’s bigger than life
Love is the movement
Love is the revolution
This is redemption
We don’t have to slow back down
We’re starting now
We don’t have to slow back down
This is the revolution
Get up, get up
Love is moving you now
This is a tune for the poparazzi
The who’s who and the so and so’s
This is a tune for the graven images
Of Marilyn Monroe
We saw your face on the magazine
We heard your song on the MP3
You’re stuck in my head
Stuck in my head
Stuck in my head
You can close your ears and your eyes but
Pop will never leave you alone
Leave me alone with all your social mingle
You try so hard to stay on top
Leave me alone with your little jingle
With your picture perfect pop
We read the article in Seventeen
We saw the video on MTV
You’re stuck in my head
Stuck in my head
Stuck in my head
You can close your ears and your eyes but
Pop will never leave you alone
This is a tune for the late Nirvana
The teen spirit of rock-and-roll
This is a tune for the velvet Elvis’
On the 90210
I thought my eyes were gonna get off clean
‘Til I read your lips on the TV screen
You were busy saying things you didn’t mean
Now everyone’s singing along
With your ridiculous song
You got it stuck
You got it stuck in my head…
Do you remember when
You were way back then
You held the world inside your hands
When you told me love was the strongest stuff
Your strength was innocence
But, oh man
The signs of time are
Omens
You’re starting the day in
No man’s land again
Who are you gonna be?
When you’re on your knees who do you believe?
Fear is a lonely man
You’ve been given innocence
You’ve been given innocence again
You should know by now
That the darkest hour
Is when your broken heart goes down
It’s the bitter end when the sweet begins
Grace is sufficiency
But, oh dear
We’ll never deserve it
No, dear
We never could earn it
Now, here, the choice is yours
Who are you gonna be?
When you’re on your knees who do you believe?
Fear is a lonely man
You’ve been given innocence
You’ve been given innocence again
Grace is high and low
Grace is high and low
Grace is high and low
We’ll never be the same
Do me a favor
Would you sing this to me slow
‘Cause I’m thinking it’s my song
Do me a faor
Would you tell me when to let go
‘Cause I think I’m holding on
Would you do it for me?
‘Cause I’m playing for keeps
Tell me tomorrow has come
With open arms
If you say it’s time to move on
Then I’ll stop holding on
If you say it’s time for moving on
Time for moving on
Do me a favor
Would you tell me which way is up
‘Cause I don’t know where I fit
Do me a favor
‘Cause I’m playing for keeps
Only the losers win
They’ve got nothing to prove
They’ll leave the world with nothing to lose
You can laugh at the weirdos now
Wait ’til wrongs are right
They’ll be the ones with nothing to hide
‘Cause I’ve been thinking, thinking
I’ve got a plan to lose it all
I’ve got a contract pending on eternity
If I haven’t already given it away
I’ve got a plan to lose it all
I’ve been the burnout kid
I’ve been the idiot
I’ll turn the other cheek to be hit
You can take what you want from me
Empty me ’til I’m depleted
I’ll be around if I’m ever needed
‘Cause I’ve been thinking, thinking
I’ve got a plan to lose it all
I’ve got a contract pending on eternity
If I haven’t already given it away
I’ve got a plan to lose it all
I wrote this song for you
To show how I’m selling out
I’ll take the benefit of the doubt
There’s just two ways to lose yourself in this life
And neither way is safe
In my dreams I see visions of the future
But today we have today
And where will I find You
In the economy of mercy
I am a poor and begging man
In the currency of grace
Is where my song begins
In the colors of Your goodness
In the scars that mark Your skin
In the currency of grace
Is where my song begins
These carbon shells
These fragile dusty frames
House canvases of souls
We are bruised and broken masterpieces
But we did not paint ourselves
And where will I find You?
In the economy of mercy
I am a poor and begging man
In the currency of grace
Is where my song begins
In the colors of Your goodness
In the scars that mark Your skin
In the currency of grace
Is where my song begins
Where was I when the world was made?
Where was I when the world was made?
Where was I when the world was made
Where was I?
I’m lost without You here
Yes I’m lost with You near me
I’m lost without You here
You knew my name when the world was made
Rain is a bad reminder of everything I don’t want to know
Rain is a backseat driver that takes me where I don’t want to go
And it looks like the sky is caving in tonight
I’m dry and cracked, the sky goes black
And tut, tut, it looks like rain
Erosion
Oh sweet erosion, break me and make me whole
The thirstiest grounds can’t take the rain
My undecided vices washing on down the drain
And it looks like the sky is caving in again
My heart is cracked, the sky goes black
And tut, tut it looks like rain
Erosion
Oh sweet erosion, break me and make me whole
Oh, erosion, would You wash away my sins?
Oh, erosion, I need a second shot again
Oh, erosion, would You break my heart again?
Oh, erosion, I am a broken hearted man
Living is simple
It’s gravity
Gravity isn’t so hard
Living is simple
It’s entropy
Entropy, falling apart
I’m falling apart again
Living is simple
And breathing is easy
It’s easy to do
Living is simple
And losing is easy
I’m losing my cool again
All will be made well
Will be made well
Will be made well
Will be well
Is this fiction?
Is this fiction?
Hope has given Himself to the worst
Is this fiction or divine comedy?
Where the last of the last finish first
Living is simple
Living is dying
Your mercy, Your mercy
Is how I believe
Living is dying
I can’t understand it
I’m down on my knees
Confessing my needs again
I’ve had my choices
I’ve chosen today
I’ve had my choices
The choices remain