The song concludes with its core statement paired once more with its core question: “I want to be a good man/Is there any good left in me?”ĭevour the Day’s answer, it seems, is that finding goodness within us requires admitting our weakness, prayerfully reaching out to a God who pulls us into the light, and trusting Him to deliver us from the emptiness and darkness inside.
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“I want to be a good man, I want to be saved/I want to be a free man, but I feel like a slave.” Those poignant words pave the way for the final verse, one filled with still more language that sounds as if it could have come straight from Scripture: “Pull me from the darkness,” Allison begs, “lift me back into the light.” And he adds one last request, “Fill this empty vessel, fill this hole I have inside,” before asking, “Am I worth forgiveness? I can’t make myself believe/Show me that you’re listening and tear this devil out of me.” It’s a deeply personal question that leads into the next chorus, which now articulates a desire for salvation and deliverance from bondage. The next verse delivers another desperate petition for a changed heart as the singer confesses his brokenness: “Everything that I’ve done before/Has brought me back down to my knees/I’m crying out to you, Lord/It’s getting harder and harder and see/If there’s any good left in me.” Accordingly, he asks again, “Is there any good left in me?” “I want to see God.” Then, with lyrics that sound like they could have come from one of David’s psalms or the Apostle Paul’s mediations on our sinful nature in Romans 7, Allison admits, “I want to be faithful, but I know that I’m not/I want to be a good man, I want to do right.” That’s followed by an allusion to the fact that perhaps the man making these pleas has been anything but good up to this point: “I don’t want to be a criminal for the rest of my life.” “I want to be a good man,” Allison begins forthrightly. “Good Man” delivers a stark, prayerful plea for something that might best be described as an extreme character makeover. (Walser has said that’s not the case, which I’ll get to momentarily.) do exactly that in the group’s first hit, the hard-hitting, mid-tempo ballad “Good Man.” And it’s the kind of song that might have secular rock fans who hear it on the radio wondering if they’ve accidentally ended up on a Christian rock station by mistake. In an interview with, guitarist Joey “Chicago” Walser said he and lead singer Blake Allison didn’t want a “stupid name like Triggerfinger, or whatever, that didn’t have any challenge to it.” Instead, he describes the one they chose as being “like carpe diem with some teeth.” In other words, seizing the day … with a vengeance.
Even the fierce-sounding name isn’t what it seems. But it turns out this Memphis, Tenn., group (which formed in late 2012 out of the ashes of the now defunct alt-rock act Egypt Central) is keen to explore territory that’s well off rock’s beaten path. Now, you might expect a hard rock act with a moniker like Devour the Day to be chomping at the proverbial bit to spit clichéd tales of rage, rebellion or rejection.
Which brings us to the curious case of Devour the Day. In contrast, the list of rock songs in which an artist or band earnestly, honestly and unabashedly pines for goodness and virtue is far shorter.
Rock music has historically excelled at glorifying three not-so-excellent themes: being bad, being mad and being sad.
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