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Switchfoot - “Dark Horses”

“Our first single, “Dark Horses,” is heavily inspired by the homeless kids in our hometown of San Diego. We do an event every year called the Bro-Am. It’s a surf contest and concert on the beach. And it benefits Stand Up For Kids, which is an organization that works with these homeless kids. They are the true dark horses. In [nearby] Seattle there’s a huge culture of homelessness amongst kids on the streets. These aren’t kids who chose homelessness. They’ve been thrust into an adult world as children – from broken homes, from being kicked out of homes, from dysfunctional parents, a variety of situations. They’re the dark horses this society has written off. And you can’t count them out.”

Tim Foreman

Innocence Again
from Learning to Breathe

Somehow, all the songs I write to others, I ended up singing to myself sooner or later. This is no different and I end up with the question, “who will it be?” This song is a sister of “I Dare You To Move.” Both songs are really driving at the same point: if God’s redemptive movement is at work around us, we are called to respond. Indeed, whether we act or not, we have made a response either way.

Jon Foreman

‘Grace is high AND low.’ The simplicity of that truth always speaks to me. This is the nature of God’s grace. This is found in the highs and the lows – on the peaks and in the valleys. This truth is so difficult to accept in it’s entirety: that fools like us have been ‘given innocence again.’

Tim Foreman