Plumb featuring Jars of Clay’s Dan Haseltine, “Drifting”

Contemporary Christian singer Plumb has released the digital single Drifting, featuring the distinctive vocals of Jars of Clay lead vocalist Dan Haseltine. Plumb, the stage name of singer Tiffany Arbuckle Lee, is one of my favorite female Christian singers, I am particularly enamored by Stranded and God-Shaped Hole; the release of Drifting, a driving mid-tempo song about how someone – it’s open-ended, but I can safely assume it’s God – is always there for you. Drifting is a fine return for Plumb, who won the 2000 Dove Award for Modern Rock Album of the Year for her terrific CD candycoatedwaterdrops. She experimented with dance music, a brilliant side step that netted her a few Top 10 hits on Billboard’s Hot Dance Airplay chart (Cut peaked at #5, In My Arms did better, topping Billboard’s Hot Club Play chart in 2007, and Hang On reached #1 as well in 2009). With the driving rock essence of Drifting, methinks Plumb is proving once again that you can’t put a label on a bonafide artist.

DRIFTING Lyrics
Plumb featuring Jars of Clay’s Dan Haseltine

There’s a sea of lonely swimming sad
Looking just for an arm to grab
I don’t need to understand
I’m just lending you the two that I have

You might be drifting
And can’t find the shore
So hopeless and all alone
The waves are crashing all around you
Just when you’ve lost the will to live
You see the sun

Can we make a searchlight
From all the bridges that we burn?
Do you see a rescue?
Or a deeper kind of hurt?

Who could love you,
Who could hold you?
I’d swim across the sea
You don’t have to be alone
Where the shallow gets so deep

You might be drifting
And can’t find the shore
So hopeless and all alone
The waves are crashing all around you
Just when you’ve lost the will to live
You see the sun

I am hurt and nearly drown
(Open up your eyes)
I cry for help you turned around
(Open up your eyes)
Farther from the shore
Or you’ll be farther from the shore

I am hurt and nearly drown
(You’re not alone)
I cry for help you turned around
(I’m not letting go)
Farther from the shore
So you’re not farther from the shore

You might be drifting
And can’t find the shore
So hopeless and all alone
The waves are crashing all around you
Just when you’ve lost the will to live
You see the sun

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