Banks (Live from Bridgestone Arena)

Lyrics

[Verse 1] I wanna be there when the voices in your head Are loud enough to make you lose your mind Just the same when you're dominating the day I wanna be the one who's by your side [Pre-Chorus] You know, my love is not the jealous type It doesn't matter if we win or lose I could stay or I could come No matter where you're coming from As long as you could be the one to choose [Chorus] I wanna hold you close, but never hold you back Just like the banks to the river And if you ever feel like you are not enough I'm gonna break all your mirrors I wanna be there when the darkness closes in To make the truth a little clearer I wanna hold you close, but never hold you back Just like the banks to the river [Post-Chorus] (I'll be the banks for your river) (I'll be the banks for your river) [Verse 2] You are beautiful and wild at every turn Who am I to take control of that? Everybody needs a voice they can follow When the water and the winds get bad [Pre-Chorus] You know, my love is not the jealous type It doesn't matter if we win or lose I could stay or I could come No matter where you're coming from As long as I can flow along with you [Chorus] I wanna hold you close, but never hold you back Just like the banks to the river And if you ever feel like you are not enough I'm gonna break all your mirrors I wanna be there when the darkness closes in To make the truth a little clearer I wanna hold you close, but never hold you back Just like the banks to the river [Post-Chorus] (I'll be the banks for your river) (I'll be the banks for your river) [Bridge] Baby, I ain't saying that you need my help You don't have to do it all by yourself Baby, when the current gets strong And you need somewhere to rest your bones I wanna be there for you I wanna be strong for you, oh, oh, oh [Chorus] I wanna hold you close, but never hold you back Just like the banks to the river And if you ever feel like you are not enough I'm gonna break all your mirrors I wanna be there when the darkness closes in To make the truth a little clearer I wanna hold you close, but never hold you back Just like the banks, like the banks to the river (I'll be the banks for your river) (I'll be the banks for your river) I wanna be there when the darkness closes in To make the truth a little clearer I wanna hold you close, but never hold you back Just like the banks to the river [Spoken Outro] We are incredibly honored to have Switchfoot on the road with us Y'all give it up for 'em So I grew up in a small town in South Carolina, my dad was a preacher My dad's here tonight, up there somewhere And I should say my mom is also here, so And my job when I was fifteen years old Was to vacuum the church on the weekends It wasn't great, to be honest with you, there was a It was one of those Pentecostal churches with burgundy carpet Lots of anointing oil you gotta get out of the floor You know what I mean? If you don't, don't worry about it And one of the big perks of that Was getting to listen to the sound system I could pick anything I wanted to listen to, as loud as I wanted to I used to listen to this record called, "The Legend of Chin" Which was the first Switchfoot record And it's the first time I picked up a guitar, first time I thought maybe Maybe I could do something like that, and We got to know them over the years, and And they are the sweetest people in the world There could not be a better example of what this means to be a rock band And, yeah I wanna bring Jon Foreman right now, if we could [Spoken Outro: Jon Foreman] Alright Ah, what a night I, you know, these are moments where you just You're thankful for a lot of things But, really, I'm thankful for friends like these, right here So, really just grateful for you guys What a gift, right? [Spoken Outro] So, I sent Jon this song on a voice memo There's a lot of songwriters in the room tonight Who have helped us on the records over the years, and you'll understand this I sent a, I sent a voice memo to him of the first verse and chorus of this song And I was just, honestly, I was fearfully doing it I wasn't really doing it confidently I just sent it to him, and I was like "Man, if our bands ever do this song together, maybe we could have it be like this" "Like a little campfire kind of song" And, of course, he got out of the ocean where he was surfing And withing twenty or thirty minutes I think, he sent me the rest of the song Completely written with all the good parts And I'm thankful that the thing made the record I'm thankful it happened, I appreciate it you This is called "Carry Me"