Switchfoot - Lonely Nation

Over the next few days I'll be looking at the songs of the new Switchfoot album Nothing Is Sound. On the Switchfoot web site they are celebrating the 12 days of Switchfoot leading up to their album. I'll include the entry from Switchfoot for each entry and try and find the lyrics and post them also. To listen to the album from VH1 then go here but I have no idea how long that link will last.

The first song off of Nothing Is Sound is called Lonely Nation and here is what Switchfoot says about the song:

Desperate times call for desperate measures. Over the course our time on the road as a band I have met so many amazing, beautiful, desperate, lonely people. We are the lonely nation. We are the disenchanted, the disillusioned- we are the remnant of lonely souls wanting more than anything that we can buy with this cold, hard cash. I wrote this song while we were playing a stretch of rock radio shows. I'd walk around near the back and just breathe in the loneliness- masses of lonely, scared kids. I remember thinking about the irony. Here you have this connected generation of online communities, IM, TM, myspace, and cell phones that grows more and more lonely every day. This is a song is still yearning, saying, "Don't settle, please, don't give up. Fight for only the true and the beautiful!"

We wanted to start the record with this track because we feel that this song picks up where Meant to Live left off. There is hope for meaning and truth in this life but it probably doesn't come in the form of a corporate slogan. We, the target market, want more than this world has to offer. This is a song where tim and chad drive the verses and the guitars take the chorus. We've played this song many times live and refined it quite a bit from it's original state. There's nothing like playing a new song in front of real people with real opinions. The people at those shows, (the extended switchfoot family), they shaped this song as much as anyone.

If I were Sony then this would have been the first song as it truly rocks and will reach folks. Although I do spend a lot of time on the computer I enjoy people much more. I enjoy my family, my friends, people from church, work and Little League. There are so many great people out there it is sad that we are a lonely nation. It just seems that it is easy to retreat but there are so many options to be around great people. It does take effort but it is worth it.

The song itself is very guitar driven (like most of the best Switchfoot songs) and is definitely one to sing along and play air guitar to.

Here are the lyrics:

She turns like the ocean
she tells no emotion
she's been gunning down the fight
she's just reminiscing
blood sweat and one things missing
she's been breaking up inside
inside

singing without tongues
screaming without lungs
I want more than my lonely nation
I want more than my lonely nation
desperate we are young
seperate we are one
I want more than my desperation
I want more than my lonely nation

we are the target market
we set the corporate target
we are slaves of what we want
we're just not amused and
we're just used to bad news
we are slaves of what we want

singing without tongues
screaming without lungs
I want more than my lonely nation
I want more than my lonely nation
desperate we are young
seperate we are one
I want more than my desperation
I want more than my lonely nation

lonely
lonely

??don't leave me oo
I'm tired
don't leave me oo
I'm tired of feeling low
I'm feeling low
I'm feeling low??

singing without tongues
screaming without lungs
I want more than my lonely nation
I want more than my lonely nation
desperate we are young
seperate we are one
I want more than my desperation
I want more than my lonely nation
I want more than my lonely nation
I want more than my lonely nation

Lyrics from OurMusic

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Posted by Tim at September 9, 2005 10:47 PM