Difference Maker Lyrics
Yeah, isn't it amazing how a man can find himself alone?
Call into the darkness for an answer that's he's never known
Yeah, isn't it amazing how a God can take a broken man
Yeah, let him find a fortune, let him ruin it with his own two hands?
[Pre-Chorus]
And he climbs on up the hill
On the rock on which he stands
He looks back at the crowd
And he looks down at his hands and he says
"I am a difference maker"
[Chorus]
Oh, I am a difference maker
Oh, I am the only one that speaks to Him
And I am the friendliest of friends of God
[Post-Chorus]
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh
[Verse]
Yeah, isn't it amazing how a man can find himself alone?
Call into the darkness for an answer that's he's never known
Yeah, isn't it amazing how a God can take a broken man
Yeah, let him find a fortune, let him ruin it with his own two hands?
And he walks on up the hill
To the rock on which he stands
He looks back at the crowd
And he looks down at his hands and he says
"I am the difference maker"
[Chorus]
Oh, I am a difference maker
Oh, I am the only one that speaks to Him
And I am the friendliest of friends of God
[Post-Chorus]
Ooh, ooh
Ooh, ooh
[Bridge]
I am on the fence about nearly everything I've seen
And I have felt the fire get put out by too much gasoline
And we're all strangers passing through a place and time, an afternoon
Life is but a vision in a window that we're peeking through
Helpless conversation with a Man who says He cares a lot
It's a passive confrontation about who might throw a punch or not
And we are all transgressors, we're all sinners, we're all astronauts
So if you're beating death then raise your hand, but shut up if you're not
About
Though not a single, “Difference Maker” grew to be one of the most popular songs on Rivers In The Wasteland due to its polarizing lyrics and a message that could speak to both Christians and non-Christians alike.
One of NEEDTOBREATHE’S more personal songs, Bear Rinehart commented on the controversial nature of “Difference Maker” in an interview with NRT:
The song is about our neediness and my realizing that over time. The whole band, really. It’s about struggling with who we are supposed to be and the process that God wants to be a part of. Creatively, where do we fit in? How valuable is our voice in all that? How can we make a difference if we don’t feel it?
I feel like the beginning of the song is us asking ourselves are we really difference makers. How valuable are we, really? Towards the end of the song it comes around that God makes us a part of what He does, which is so crazy. It starts with us realizing that we don’t get to make the rules. We don’t control it, and we don’t get to say what the timing is. It’s not because of our talents. He doesn’t need that. He needs our willing hearts.
Q&A
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In a video posted by Air1, Bear tells how he wrote the song during or right after the band was on tour with Taylor Swift:
It really felt like it wasn’t really having an impact. [We were] sort of struggling, asking God like, what’s the deal here? We’re doing all the right things and…I think God really dealt with us with that, and I think we had gotten too much where we were looking at…how well we played or what the songs were supposed to do to the audience, and expecting God to meet us in that place rather than giving it up to God. I think that’s what Difference Maker is really about, is that you start making a difference the minute you realize that you’re not capable of it by yourself.
- 1.Wasteland
- 2.State I’m In
- 4.Oh, Carolina
- 5.Difference Maker
- 6.Rise Again
- 7.The Heart
- 9.Multiplied
- 10.Brother
