Banks (Live from Bridgestone Arena)

[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"