Songs for Lent #6: Adam Again's "I Mean Every Word I Say"

"I Mean Every Word I Say" is raw truth, as we used to say in the old days of Cornerstone magazine. This clip is from the other Cornerstone -- Cornerstone Festival back in 1992. I think the song is its own sermon and prayer rolled into one. "If you tell me you love me / It had better be the truth." Who's saying that... Jesus? An unbeliever? A fellow believer who's in deep trouble and desperate for some compassionate honesty and comfort?



[To hear the studio version with better sound, here.]

Everybody is talking, many words are spoken
And they're telling me things they think I wanna hear
Enough is enough it's time to get serious
If you tell me you love me
Well it better be the truth

I mean every word I say

Well I know that the things that we say are sometimes automatic
We just follow a script like a character reading his lines
Enough is enough it's time to get serious
And if you talk about love
Know the meaning of the word

I mean every word I say

From my heart to my head
From my head to my mouth
Can the words cross the air between us
Oh, and be true?

I mean every word I say