Got an email from my friend Jeremy on Derek Webb‘s new controversial song “What Matters More” off the album “Stockholm Syndrome“.

Below is the video, lyrics and a link to a website called Musical Squash who gives good thoughts and a review of the song.

Apparently the issues for the “Christian Market place” are his lyrics about homosexuality and the use of the word Sh*t (sorry for the blocking of the full word, what a sellout huh …)

Take a listen and jot down some thoughts if you’d like…

You say you always treat people like you like to be / I guess you love being hated for your sexuality / You love when people put words in your mouth / ‘Bout what you believe, make you sound like a freak / ‘Cause if you really believe what you say you believe / You wouldn’t be so damn reckless with the words you speak / Wouldn’t silently conceal when the liars speak / Denyin’ all the dyin’ of the remedy / Tell me, brother, what matters more to you? Tell me, sister, what matters more to you? /  If I can tell what’s in your heart by what comes out of your mouth / Then it sure looks to me like being straight is all it’s about / It looks like being hated for all the wrong things / Like chasin’ the wind while the pendulum swings / ‘Cause we can talk and debate until we’re blue in the face / About the language and tradition that he’s comin’ to save / Meanwhile we sit just like we don’t give a sh*t / About 50,000 people who are dyin’ today / Tell me, brother, what matters more to you? Tell me, sister, what matters more to you?

• for a review of the song and where these lyrics came from: Musical Squash’s reveiew of “What Matters More” by Derek Webb

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