Compare these newish songs!

At the 2012 - 55th Annual GRAMMY Awards, Mumford and Sons won Best Rock Song -  I Will Wait     Album of the Year - Babel    Best Rock Performance - I will Wait. There is a lot of debate over what did Mumford and Sons "mean" by their lyrics.

This week I began to hear the song "Build Your Kingdom Here" by the Rend Collective Experiment on our local Christian radio station. No doubt what theses lyrics mean!  I was reminded instantly of "I Will Wait"!

 Here are the You Tube videos for both, and the lyrics. Interesting. 

Well I came home
Like a stone

And I fell heavy into your arms
These days of dust
Which we have known
Will blow away with this new sun

But I'll kneel down
Wait for now
And I'll kneel down
Know my ground

And I will wait, I will wait for you
And I will wait, I will wait for you

So break my step
And relent
Well you forgave and I won't forget
Know what we've seen
And him with less
Now in some ways
Shake the excess

And I will wait, I will wait for you
etc.

Now I'll be bold
As well as strong
And use my head alongside my heart
So tame my flesh
And fix my eyes
A tethered mind freed from the lies

And I'll kneel down
Wait for now
And I'll kneel down
Know my ground

Raise my hands
Paint my spirit gold
Bow my head
Keep my heart slow

And I will wait, I will wait for you
etc.

Songwriters
LOVETT, BENJAMIN WALTER DAVID / MUMFORD, MARCUS OLIVER JOHNSTONE / DWANE, EDWARD JAMES MILTON / MARSHALL, WINSTON AUBREY ALADAR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbdJXKqVgtg&feature=share&list=ALHTd1VmZQRNqCmOLiZT4q_13Rno_Yyymd

Come set Your rule and reign
In our hearts again
Increase in us we pray
Unveil why we're made
Come set our hearts ablaze with hope
Like wildfire in our very souls
Holy Spirit come invade us now
We are Your Church
We need Your power
In us

We seek Your kingdom first
We hunger and we thirst
Refuse to waste our lives
For You're our joy and prize
To see the captive hearts released
The hurt; the sick; the poor at peace
We lay down our lives for Heaven's cause
We are Your church
We pray revive
This earth
Build Your kingdom here
Let the darkness fear
Show Your mighty hand
Heal our streets and land
Set Your church on fire
Win this nation back
Change the atmosphere
Build Your kingdom here
We pray

Unleash Your kingdom's power
Reaching the near and far
No force of hell can stop
Your beauty changing hearts
You made us for much more than this
Awake the kingdom seed in us
Fill us with the strength and love of Christ
We are Your church
We are the hope
On earth