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Where The Light Goes

Where the Light Goes

Warm Blood

"I Can’t Be Your Jesus" is a deeply emotional track written from the perspective of someone who's been pushed to the edge by a one-sided relationship. It’s about loving someone with deep wounds — but realizing that love can’t mean sacrifice without end. With haunting lyrics and raw vulnerability, the song confronts the weight of trying to save someone who doesn't want to be saved. It's not about blame — it's about survival. A boundary drawn in blood, not bitterness.

Lyrics: 

Written by: GTV Mansfeld
℗ 2025 Empty Vessel Music
All rights reserved. Registered with ASCAP.
Publisher: Empty Vessel Music
Label: Empty Vessel Music
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You say I was terrible 
Make out like you were abused 
You say your childhood wasn’t normal 
Me
Well I just feel use
By you

Your pain is not my pain 
And I can't be your Jesus 
No, I can't save you 
I can't take the blame 
But I really want to redeem us
Redeem us
I can't be your Jesus

Now I'm not victim shaming 
It would be if it were true (not true) 
But caring about you when your claiming 
You’re hurt by me caring
I'm naming you

Your pain is not my pain 
And I can't be your Jesus 
No, I can't save you 
I can't take the blame 
But I really want to redeem us
Redeem us
I can't be your Jesus

I've cried 
Like you
I've tried 
But Have you
You
I've sighed
I've died 
On the inside

And no I won't be your scapegoat 
You can't goat me into your issues 
I won't be your whipping boy
I won't 
Hey, I'm not trying to dismiss you

Your pain is not my pain 
And I can't be your Jesus 
No, I can't save you 
I can't take the blame 
But I really want to redeem us
Redeem us
I can't be your Jesus
No, I can't be your Jesus

Your demons are real 
I have a few of my own 
But, I would appeal 
Baby now you're grown

Your pain is not my pain 
And I can't be your Jesus 
No, I can't save you 
I can't take the blame 
But I really want to redeem us
Redeem us
I can't be our Jesus
No I cant
I can't be our Jesus

I Cant Be Your Jesus

My New Inventions Songs Do Not Make Sense

Alarm Clock That Apologises Every Morning

Exile on Mainstream

Can't Let You Go

She's So Mean

Bright Lights (2007 Remaster)

Real World (2007 Remaster)

Mad Season

If You're Gone

The Very Best Of Sheryl Crow

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Let Love In

Better Days

"So Alive" is the new single from the forthcoming Goo Goo Dolls album 'Boxes'. The album will be out on May 6.

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So Alive

I Hope You're Happy

Chip Tooth Smile

Early in the Morning

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North

Matchbox Twenty - Our Song

Formed in Florida, Matchbox Twenty entered the world with a blockbuster -- 1996's YOURSELF OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU. The debut set spawned five hit singles -- "Push," "3 am," "Real World," "Long Day" and "Back 2 Good" and snagged an RIAA Diamond Award certification for U.S. sales exceeding more than 12 million to date. Thomas also raised the band's profile by co-writing and singing on Santana's Grammy Award-winning 1999 smash "Smooth." Matchbox Twenty maintained the momentum with MAD SEASON in 2000 and "MORE THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE in 2002, both of which went multi-platinum and continued to spit out hits such as "Bent," "Unwell," "If You're Gone," "Bright Lights" and "Disease."

But after three albums of hard work and equally hard touring, Matchbox Twenty was ready for a break. Thomas released a pair of Top 5 solo albums which contained several #1 singles, Doucette worked with his band The Break and Repair Method and wrote film music, while Cook led the New Left. The hiatus not only renewed Matchbox Twenty as a band but also seasoned the individual members even further as they came back together for 2007's EXILE ON MAINSTREAM, a greatest hits collection that sported six inspired new tracks which were co-written by the band for the first time ever and included their biggest selling single to date “How Far We’ve Come”. 

In addition to more than 30 million records sold worldwide, Matchbox Twenty has also earned countless accolades, including five Grammy nominations, four American Music Award nods, the 2004 People’s Choice Award for “Favorite Musical Group, and they were named “Best New Band” in the 1997 Rolling Stone Readers Poll.

After EXILE ON MAINSTREAM's Top 5 success, Matchbox Twenty continued the collaborative process as it headed towards NORTH. The romantic "Overjoyed," according to both Thomas and Doucette, was "the first time we felt like we had something special”. Kyle Cook took lead vocals on the incredible ballad "The Way," which he and Doucette penned together. "She's So Mean," meanwhile, represents a "storytelling exercise" during which Thomas, Doucette and Cook sat around a microphone free styling lyrics that they eventually sculpted into the cautionary tale about a hard-to-handle woman who Doucette promises bears no similarity to anyone in the group members' real lives. Listening deeper to NORTH reveals even more different nuances, approaches and feels because of the group-writing dynamic.
 
"Matchbox Twenty is pretty all-encompassing," Doucette says. "Once it gets rolling, we just devote all our time and energy to that. I can speak for everybody on this; it's the thing we hold the most dear because it's the thing we built the longest, so we want to give it its due. We don't make records that often anymore, so when we do we want to devote our time and energy to not only doing it; but also bringing that music to the fans."

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