"When you breathe, I want to be the air for you"

So for the last week and a half, I have been listening to this one song and just ridiuculing it for how outrageous the lyrics are. Or so I thought.

The song is by Bon Jovi, "I'll be there for you." My friends and I have been getting a good laugh about the lyrics, probably because of the way that I would recite them in their ears, or how during the Super Bowl it was how I addressed one of them. During the party, I actually made a vow to answer any question using the lyrics from that song. Crazy, right?

Well, yesterday, in one of my great (and few, I might add) moments making Lizz laugh, I decided to play this song. It was pretty funny, and Ryan was cracking up when I decided to play it. I thought that it was fitting "push-up music."

So, here I am, making fun of this song, and saying how ridiculous some of the lyrics are. Then, Lizz, being the wise woman she is, told me to look at the song in a new light (she just posted a blog on this same topic, so I am kind of living off her blog too). She told me to envision Christ singing the song to us.

Man, did that make me think.

The lyrics fit in so well with what Christ does for us. It puts into words the love that he has for us. It embodies what the apostles got to see first hand, two thousand years later.

So as Lizz said in her blog (or maybe she didn't and I am inferring this), interpret the music you listen to, even if it isn't "Christian." Even some of the cheesiest love songs, or the weirdest country songs can have more meaning behind them. Just look at the Bon Jovi song:

I'll be there for you
These five words I swear to you
I'll be there for you
When you breathe, I want to be the air for you
I'll live and I'll die for you
I'll steal the sun from the sky for you
Words can't say what love can do
I'll be there for you