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“We’re heading nowhere\/It’s not close to them\/Even horizons can fade Anberlin released their final album, Lowborn<\/em> this week and it is an album that definitely has a feel of finality about it. It is easy to view the album through the colored lens of knowing this is the last album to pull out the parts that spell a closing, but I wonder had we not known would we read the clues in between the lyrics and figure it out? I suspect so.<\/p>\n The album is a bit of a change for a band known for fist-pumping anthems. I’ve always wondered if they were a band simply born 20 years too late. Lowborn<\/em> is a much more ponderous, somber album. The instrumentation is simpler and guitar fireworks are limited to a few songs. Some of the songs, like “Stranger Ways” and “Hearing Voices” feel more rooted in the 80’s alterna-pop of New Order and Depeche Mode. “Dissenter” is the odd track out. With the screaming and industrial drumming, it feels like a relic from the early days when the pre-Anberlin band was ending the band Anberlin was beginning. The lyrics on the album, often cryptic in past albums seem more razor sharp here, as if Stephen Christian is running out of time to say what he has to say.<\/p>\n The song order is different than the typical Anberlin formula. There is no climatic end to the album. The album was constructed in three different studios and fortunately it has meshed well together, it doesn’t feel very disjointed. However, it is telling that album was put together in so many locations. This is a band that didn’t spend a whole lot of time in the same room to work this out. <\/p>\n Memories circle like birds of prey Vocalist Stephen Christian says he has been looking for a way out of the band for over a year now. When he approached the rest of the band about leaving, everyone else confessed that they were ready for a break as well. It’s not the stereotypical fight and bust up and that ends the band, but more five people slowly drifting each in different directions. <\/p>\n Not sure what tomorrow brings So, with no future planned, it’s impossible to escape the finality of the album. Over and over again, the songs reference not looking back, not having regrets, and soberly accepting the present. It’s possible there might be solo works or a new different band formed out of the remnants of Anberlin, but if so, no one is talking about it. Instead, what we the listener are left with is the end of an era.<\/p>\n Everyone wants to know God I can identify with the end of an era. It feels like I’ve been mourning one for a while now. There are people and places in my life that I will probably never see again. One lesson that I have been painfully learning this summer is that God will forgive sin, but most times He will not remove the consequences or events from the sin. There are wounds that will not heal and relationships will sever forever. I’ve witnessed a lot of this during the past few months. I am thankful that I am not the one wounded, but I also left wondering who I have wounded and scarred with my words and actions. <\/p>\n I feel as if I am in a transitional period of my life. When I was younger I was always eager for the next stage of life. I wish I was as optimistic as I used to be. I don’t really know what is coming next, my children are slowly starting to write their own stories and I feel like I am slowly having to loosen the rope, let them go a little more. We’re still a long ways from cars, boys, and even (gulp) college, but it’s approaching. I feel like much of my story has been wrapped up in raising them and now as I’m releasing them I have to find my own story again. I’m comforted, however, that I have strong support from home. If we are to enter another new unknown, I’m glad to face it with my family. <\/p>\n How could I say goodbye? “We’re heading nowhere\/It’s not close to them\/Even horizons can fade Hope says she’s never a saint\/they’re all waiting on a prayer\/If we’re heading nowhere” Anberlin released their final album, Lowborn this week and it is an album that definitely has … Continue reading
\nHope says she’s never a saint\/they’re all waiting on a prayer\/If we’re heading nowhere”<\/em><\/p>\n
\nI\u2019ve seen faces I may never see again
\nI\u2019ve been places I never could have dreamt<\/em><\/p>\n
\nI\u2019ve loved where I\u2019ve been
\nYes I love where I\u2019ve been
\nBut my heart\u2019s where I\u2019m going
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\nWaiting for the right mind to drive insane
\nDon’t look back there’s nothing to see
\nRegret is nothing more than a lovers disease<\/em><\/p>\n
\nNot sure why a caged bird sings
\nDon’t ask cause I don’t know
\nNo idea just where to go
\nHigh hopes and higher dreams
\nMay not have everything<\/em><\/p>\n
\nBut they\u2019re afraid of what they\u2019ll find
\nEveryone wants to know God
\nBut they want to live like he died.
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\nIt’s not losing it all, if we have each other
\nIn the end it’s all, in the end it’s all that matters
\nIf we take this chance, and it falls to pieces
\nIn the end you’re all, in the end you’re all that matters<\/p>\n
\nWe’ve come too far to turn back now
\nWho are we without each other?
\nToo entwined to untangle now<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"