I absolutely love Leona Lewis's song Bleeding Love. I can't embed the music video here because the option was disabled for that video on youtube but you can watch it for yourself and interpret what you think she wrote the song about. But I'd like to just show you possibly a different perspective on that exact same song.
LYRICS:
Closed off from love, I didn't need the pain
Once or twice was enough and it was all in vain
Time starts to pass, before you know it you're frozen
This part (for me) is like distance from God and how nothing comes from that situation. And the less time you spend with God, the less it feels like his presence is with you until he almost becomes frozen.
But something happened for the very first time with you
My heart melted into the ground, found something true
And everyone's looking 'round, thinking I'm going crazy
Coming back to the relationship with God, falling in love with him because you can see the way things are truly supposed to be. And people who don't know that love think that it's crazy because they don't know.
But I don't care what they say, I'm in love with you
They try to pull me away but they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the vein that I keep on closing
The first two lines are self explanatory. The last line is when you choose to cut yourself off from God. Also, a vein is the stream of blood flowing to the heart, not away. And everyone knows you need blood to live.
You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding, keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding, I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding, keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open
In Ephesians 6, you can do a word study on the word sword and find that it's actually more of a scalpel used for operations. So "you cut me open" is like God changing us or pruning us to bear more fruit.
Trying hard not to hear but they talk so loud
Their piercing sounds fill my ears, try to fill me with doubt
Yet I know that the goal is to keep me from falling
Again, people who don't know God can say a lot of things about our faith to make us doubt because they don't believe themselves. But the goal is to just keep striving after Jesus.
But nothing's greater than the rush that comes with your embrace
And in this world of loneliness I see your face
Yet everyone around me thinks that I'm going crazy
Maybe, maybe
This part is pretty self explanatory. Embrace equals an embrace, maybe like the dream I've blogged about before. Or even just confirmation of his love towards us. God never leaves us alone even when we feel that we have no one. Crazy is the same thing as above.
But I don't care what they say, I'm in love with you
They try to pull me away but they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the vein that I keep on closing
You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding, keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding, I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding, keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open
And it's draining all of me
Oh, they find it hard to believe
I'll be wearing these scars for everyone to see
The cost of following after Jesus will demand everything you are and have. They find it hard to believe that it's worth it. The scars could go two ways. First scars could be the visible change in the way you live, even a physical change depending on a persons testimony. Or it could be living in a life that only takes pride in the scars of Christ.
I don't care what they say, I'm in love with you
They try to pull me away but they don't know the truth
My heart's crippled by the vein that I keep on closing
You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding, keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding, I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding, keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding, keep, keep bleeding love
I keep bleeding, I keep, keep bleeding love
Keep bleeding, keep, keep bleeding love
You cut me open and I
Keep bleeding, keep, keep bleeding love
That's all. I love it. If you didn't before, than maybe you will now.
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