Tuesday, September 28, 2010

My Own Little World

I have a song that I really have been loving lately.
"My Own Little World" By: Matthew West
I saw Matthew West in concert a few years ago when he opened for Toby Mac.
He did his set all acoustic and I LOVED it! He was amazing.
He's gotten a lot more well known since then which makes me happy.
He is releasing an album, The Story of Your Life on October 5th...can't wait to get it!
To create this album, he spent close to 3 months alone in a cabin sifting through thousands of emails of people telling their stories...many are unbelievable heartbreaking. He picked out stories to inspire each of his songs on this album. It's been talked about and advertised a lot on K-LOVE (which I LOVE listening to!). They have interviewed him and it's just been so interesting to me to hear some of the unbelievable stories of people being saved by the grace of God. I love that all of these songs are about true stories from real people.
This song is convicting to me.
The lyrics are on the video, but I added them below as well.

In my own little world it hardly ever rains
I’ve never gone hungry, always felt safe
I got some money in my pocket
shoes on my feet
In m own little world
Population me

I try to stay awake through the Sunday morning church
I throw a twenty in the plate but I never give ’til it hurts
and I turn off the news when I don’t like what I see
it’s easy to do when it’s population me

What if there’s a bigger picture
what if I’m missing out
What if there’s a greater purpose
I could be living right now
outside my own little world
Wooh

Stopped at the red light, looked out my window
Outside the car, saw a sign, said “Help this homeless widow”
Just above this sign was the face of a human
i thought to myself, “God, what have I been doing?”

So I rolled down my window and I looked her in the eye
Oh how many times have I just passed her by
I gave her some money then I drove on through
in my own little world there’s Population two

What if there’s a bigger picture
what if I’m missing out
What if there’s a greater purpose
I could be living right now
outside my own little world
Wooh

whoa yeah
whoa yeah
whoa

Start breaking my heart for what breaks Yours
give me open hands and open doors
put Your light in my eyes and let me see
that my own little world is not about me

What if there’s a bigger picture
what if I’m missing out
Show me there’s a greater purpose
I could be living right now
outside my own little world
Wooh
My own little world yeah
My own little world woo

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I know the song. It's very good. Been listening to K Love for the past 3 months everyday while I pickup dogs. I recently bought the Tenth Avenue North cd, which is AWESOME! I highly recommend it. It has really spoken to me as well. Ryan even really likes it.

Love, Kay

Jennie Peakin said...

I have the 10th Avenue North CD...I LOVE it too! I recommend ANY Jeremy Camp CD, Sean even loves his music!