Better Than Drugs

Today, I got out of bed with the intention of spending my entire morning playing the guitar solo in the song Better The Drugs. I've played it at least one hundred times so far, and my fingers feel like they've been playing with knives. I am so envious of Skillet and their guitar skills.

In case you're unfamiliar with this song or this band, here are the lyrics:

Feel your every heartbeat
Feel you on these empty nights
Calm the ache, stop the shakes
You clear my mind

You’re my escape
From this messed up place
‘Cause you let me forget
You numb my pain

How can I tell you just all that you are
What you do to me

You're better than drugs
Your love is like wine
Feel You coming on so fast
Feel You coming to get me high

You're better than drugs
I'm addicted for life
Feel You coming on so fast
Feel You coming on to get me high

Feel you when I’m restless
Feel you when I cannot cope
You’re my addiction, my prescription, my antidote

You kill the poison
Ease the suffering
Calm the rage when I’m afraid
To feel again

How can I tell you just all that You are
What You do to me

You're better than drugs
Your love is like wine
Feel You coming on so fast
Feel You coming to get me high

You're better than drugs
I'm addicted for life
Feel You coming on so fast
Feel You coming on to get me high

How can I tell You just all that You are?
What You do to me

Feel Your every heartbeat
Feel You on these empty nights
You’re the strength of my life

I like this song, and not just because it has an awesome guitar solo that I can almost play. It also presents God in an unusual way.

I consider this to be a worship song. In fact, if I can learn it, I'll be using this song in a worship service. Most people are surprised by the fact that I think of it as worshipful. They say "how can you talk about drugs and still be worshipful?" Well, it's not really talking about drugs. It's talking about the fact that God is beyond comparison to anything else in the world.

Wouldn't it be cool if there were more songs that don't just say, "You're glorious, o majestic Savior," and said something meaningful? We have these words that we use to describe God in worship. Things like powerful, glorious, marvelous, etc. But "better than drugs?" Yes, this is an awesome worship song.

I have to now quit writing so that I can play the solo a few more thousand times.