Contemporary Christian rock band Ashes Remain has released Unbroken, one of the harder-edged tracks off its album, What I’ve Become. Most Contemporary Christian music listeners may find Unbroken quite a massive leap from Everything Good, the band’s Christian AC crossover ballad, but they should be able to appreciate the solid earnestness behind the lyrics that still come out powerfully amidst the wickedly awesome guitar and drum work. It’s the essential sonic tug-of-war that affects talented acts like Ashes Remain: they can rock out with the best of them but also create some of the most moving and powerful ballads on Christian rock radio today. (Another solid example, not related much to Ashes Remain, but a good example of what I’m trying to illustrate is Relient K; they’ve got some pretty neat rock-out songs, but I’ll always appreciate them for their ballds.) What listeners – and the Christian AC programmers who think Unbroken might be a tad bit too loud for their formats, and therefore keep the band solidly niched into Christian CHR – need to do is appreciate Ashes Remain for the talented fellows that they are, and perhaps get beyond their initial bias for the driving guitars and hard-ass vocal work, and see that Unbroken speaks to the Christian heart, to one that desires the transformative power of Christ.
UNBROKEN Lyrics
Ashes Remain
Shut down tell me there’s gotta be
A way out from underneath the gravity
My heart is breaking down
I can’t shut out and silence the confusion
Spun around and lost in the illusion
My mind is breaking now
I’ll walk through the fire
Just to feel You next to me
Hold on to desire
You’re the only hope I see
I hate what I have been
Falling apart within
Dying to be unbroken
Lost in a broken generation
Desperate for a revelation
These walls are coming down
I’ll walk through the fire
just to feel You next to me
Hold on to desire
You’re the only hope I see
I hate what I have been
Falling apart within
Dying to be unbroken
I’ll walk through the fire
just to feel You next to me
Hold on to desire
You’re the only hope I see
I hate what I have been
Falling apart within
Dying to be unbroken
