This is one of the most profound songs I've ever come across. "You Found Me" by the Fray asked what my soul has been yearning to know in the years since my mother's death. Questions of 'why' and insinuations of theft of love ones and abandonment; there are too many emotions involved in grief to expect faith to linger. Now songs, I would like to believe, are open for interpretation and I think the Fray, although their own personal motives for this song may be similar, would be happy that I found something so real in their product. Those of you who love and know this song should take another look at the lyrics.
It's a conversation between a man/woman and God. The Fray, apart from the quotation marks indicating the first two lines, leaves the rest of the lyrics un-authored. During my first vague listenings I assumed it was a conversation going back and forth between these two people. Then, in a later listening when one of the men demanded "Where were you when everything was falling apart?" I decided that the whole song apart from the scoffed "Ask anything", was actually the man or woman pleading for answers, blaming God for abandonment, cursing Him for taking everything that made him who he was. That alone was truly emotional because I knew that I had been in and would frequently wander back to those feelings of deep despair. However, as I listened to that song again and again, a different side slowly emerged from the simple pleading lyrics. What if all the questions were really from the God character? Please read the lyrics below, or listen to the song with this in mind. It has changed forever the perspective I hold of my relationship and responsibilty in that relationship to our Father.
Where the West was all but won
All alone, smoking his last cigarette
I said, "Where you been?" He said, "Ask anything"
Where were you when everything was falling apart?
All my days were spent by the telephone that never rang
And all I needed was a call that never came
To the corner of 1st and Amistad
Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait? Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late, you found me, you found me
But in the end everyone ends up alone
Losing her, the only one who's ever known
Who I am, who I'm not and who I wanna be
No way to know how long she will be next to me
Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait? Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late, you found me, you found me!
The early morning, the city breaks
And I've been calling for years and years and years and years
And you never left me no messages
You never sent me no letters
You got some kind of nerve taking all I want!
Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor, where were you? Where were you?
Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait? Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late, you found me, you found me!
Why'd you have to wait to find me, to find me?
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