I love Switchfoot's older stuff up through their fourth album, The Beautiful Letdown, which contains the following song sharing the same title. I think Jon Foreman is one of the best lyricists out there, and I've always thought these lyrics in particular were just full of gold. If you hate the music of Switchfoot, I'm sorry, but maybe just try to enjoy the words and humor me?
It was a beautiful letdown
When I crashed and burned
When I found myself alone, unknown and hurt
It was a beautiful letdown
The day I knew,
That all the riches this world had to offer me will never do.
In a world full of bitter pain,
and bitter doubts,
I was trying so hard to fit in,
Fit in, until I found out
I don't belong here
I don't belong here
I will carry a cross and a song
Where I don't belong
I don't belong
It was a beautiful letdown
When you found me here
Yeah, for once in a rare blue moon
I see everything clear
I'll be a beautiful letdown
That's what I'll forever be
And though it may cost my soul
I'll sing for free
We're still chasing our tails
In the rising sun
In our dark water planet still spinning
In a direction no one wins
No one's won.
I'm gonna set side
And set sail
For the kingdom come, kingdom come
Your kingdom come
Won't you let me down, yeah
Let my foolish pride forever let me down
Ah, Easy living, you're not much like the name
Easy dying, you look just about the same
Would you please take me off your list
Easy living please c'mon and let me down
We are a beautiful letdown
Painfully uncool
The church of the dropouts
The losers, the sinners, the failures, and the fools
What a beautiful letdown
Are we salt in the wound
Hey, let us sing one true tune
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