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SOME WORDS FROM WARREN BARFIELD REGARDING THE SONG
"LOVE IS NOT A FIGHT"
I make a living writing songs, but I do not write songs to make a living. I was writing long before anyone ever gave me a dollar for it. I was writing long before anyone was ever even listening. I write songs to put form to my thoughts and ideas. I’m working out my own salvation with fear and trembling, pen and paper. If you’ve listened to any of my music, then you have listened to my convictions, my confessions and my conclusions.
Here is a little insight into how some of those thoughts and ideas took shape to become my song “Love is Not a Fight.”
The word love as defined by our culture confuses me. I have a close friend who told me he was in love and was engaged to be married, then in a matter of days he broke off the engagement and was “in love” with someone else. I’m confused. Another friend found out his wife of seven years, the mother of his three children, had been having an affair with a co-worker for a couple of years. Everyday she threw “I love you” around while destroying everyone who she said it to. I’m confused. The stories go on and on and get closer and closer to home. Love is all we need? I personally think we could all use a manual to go along with it as well.
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“Love is Not a Fight” is my conviction. I saw the abuse of the word love all around me, but I wasn’t one of the abusers, was I? One night during a fight with my wife I saw myself. “Love is Not a Fight” is my confession. The fight started over something very small and insignificant but quickly grew into a battle. In the middle of the fight I said, “I want out. You can have everything; I just want out!” What is love? That night my love was prideful, selfish. It flew off the handle listing all my wife’s wrongs; it failed.
By the grace of God, my wife and I survived that battle. “Love is Not a Fight” is my conclusion. There is a definition of Love that is very different than the one given to us by our culture. It is seen in the person of Christ. It is the opposite of all the things I was that night.
I learned through a fight that Love is not a battle. It isn’t angry. It isn’t a fight, but it is something worth fighting for. I want to be fighting for my wife, not fighting with her. Christ is the ultimate example of what it means to fight for love. He accepted blame that wasn’t His, and gave His life for the ones He loved. I want to follow His lead and exhaust myself for Love. I hope the song encourages everyone that hears it to fight for Love. I have received story after story of how the song is at work in people’s lives. I pray it continues to do its work.
COURTESY CMCENTRAL.COM
You get up. You eat breakfast (or not). You go to work. You eat lunch. You come home. You have dinner. You go to bed. For most, the routine leaves little time for anything else. The results are usually shallow relationships with our friends, families, and our Maker. But, when your head hits the pillow at the end of the day, do you ever question if you've made the wrong things important?
North Carolina-born singer/songwriter Warren Barfield is on a mission to make the truly important things important again in his life. Things like faith, love, marriage, children, truth, and with his songs, he challenges us all to do the same. Martin Luther King Jr. said, "If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live." Warren has found those things in his faith, his wife, and his belief in love. "These are the things I would die for; things I will wake up every morning and spend my day fighting for."
Worth Fighting For, Barfield's third record, out May 20, 2008 on Essential Records, expresses a vulnerability and passion born out of the realization of how much life passes by without intentionally living, how little we invest in those we love, and how often we settle for the status quo.
Produced by Charlie Peacock (Switchfoot, Nichole Nordeman); Mark A. Miller (Casting Crowns); and Jason Ingram and Rusty Varenkamp (Bebo Norman, Rush of Fools), Worth Fighting For marks a decided return to Barfield's own creative instincts. "There was a huge difference between the first and second records," he says, "but this one meets in the middle. My life is so much different than it was a year ago, and I've got something important to say, so I wanted to clothe these songs in a way that will carry the message to the people who take time out of their lives to come see my shows. That's what we set out to do, musically."
The result is a project that is both sonically progressive, yet completely accessible...truly reflective of the artist — and the man — Barfield is today.
"The most unique thing about Warren is his voice. All of the songs and the production are meant to highlight his unique gift," shares producer Charlie Peacock. "Warren is gracefully human as a person and an artist, with a heart bent toward Jesus."
Producer Mark A. Miller agrees, "Warren is not only a great artist, but a great writer, with a very cool, distinct voice and great overall style."
COURTESY WARRENBARFIELD.COM
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