Ohmygoodness, these polls just keep getitng harder! 1) Picking between Switchfoot songs is always a total wrench (it's like choosing a favourite from your children!) but I picked The Sound in My Mouth and Sooner or Later. The former because it does that amazing heart pumping thing to me, and also because the lyrics are so clever. It truly captures that feeling of needing to scream aloud, say something real but being held back by pride, fear, whatever. And the latter because there's just something pleasing to me about Sooner or Later. It always strikes me with this impression that nothing is finite, and that what is intended for us will come around in one way or another. Yet it also accepts our own yearnings Deep stuff 2) Tough again. Every album means something different to me. I've only followed the band since around 2006, so I've come to the albums kind of out-of-order, and always through my most formative years. I associate them with different seasons, different challenges and even different relationships. It isn't one album which gets me through my toughest moments, it's every Switchfoot song (and Fiction Family and JF solo project for that matter!) So I thought, keep this simple. Vice Verses. Somehow, Jon's lyrics always reflect my exact thoughts on situations. Some of the issues explored in VV correlate with amazing closeness to issues I'm dealing with in life right now maintaining originality, freeing myself from ideals I don't want to adhere to; learning to rise above some things and fight for others; figuring out how to shout my battle cries without losing my voice in the process; wondering what it means to live together and to die Some of that is shameless quoting, but it's all true, that I hear the lyrics of VV and wonder Jon Foreman, how have I not noticed you running a songwriter's retreat in my brain?! As I deal with all those things above, VV has really been helping me stay strong. (Even deeper stuff!)3) Mouth brow! We salute you! I've watched it so many times and I still laugh out loud. Those silly boys

by Flame 02:15:55 PM 2012.02.26