Until he showed up at the ALIVE music festival this summer, I thought Kris Allen wrote only generic, sappy-but-clean girlfriend&breakup songs. I figured that any Christian with a strong witness probably wouldn’t have won American Idol.
I judge people on very little information, and yes, that’s a flaw, even if I justify it with James 4:4 and passages like it. In Kris Allen’s case, I have to make a lukewarm exception for “Live Like We’re Dying.”
Yeah, we gotta start
Looking at the hands of the time we've been given

I am gunna stand strong
I am not backing down
This is where I stand
I am sorry if you disapprove
but you're not moving me
I am firmly planted,
feet grounded in concrete
and I am not backing down
even tho it's causing us pain
I see you watching me,
wishing that I would change
back into the person I once was
but I am not,
God's taken me, and changed me
from the inside out
Now you're asking me what's
come over me,
why I let religion get to me