Kutless, who has been a band since 2000, has a great attitude and likes great meaning in their songs. Kutless adds allusion to the Bible by talking about when Jesus walked on water and how He performs miracles still today. Kutless’ song “What Faith Can Do” is very poetic because it has many literary devices. Kutless is a very poetic band. They like to use hyperbole, alliteration, imagery, similes, and symbolism. The song “What Faith Can Do” is very catchy because of its poetic elements. The poetic elements of “What Faith Can Do” help it do draw people into faith. It helps people to want to know more about faith.
The symbolism in “What Faith Can Do” is a very important element. It shows how people are scared to take a step in faith because faith is believing without seeing. A good example of this in the song is when it says, “Everybody’s scared to death when they decide to take that step out on to the water.” The fear of not knowing what truth is can only be healed by God, which is a good note of what faith can do.The only way you can walk on water is if you have faith in God that you will not sink to the bottom. In the Bible it talks about when Jesus walked on water 3 different times. Verses included are Matthew chapter 14:21-23, Mark chapter 6:44-46. Also the whole Chapter of John 6 talks about when Jesus walked on water. It shows that we too can do things Christ did if only we have faith in the father like He did.
The imagery in this song is beautiful. “Don’t you give up now, the sun will soon be shining, you gotta face the clouds to find the silver lining,” says Jon-Micah Sumrall. To me those lyrics perfectly paint a sunset in my head. But this sunset isn’t just any sunset, it’s a sunset after a storm. This sunset has the clouds in it and the sun setting to the bottom of the clouds and just shining through.
The hyperbole in this song is strong. “I’ve seen dreams that move the mountains,” sings Jon-Micah Sumrall and it shows just how strong faith can be but it’s a bit exaggerated. A dream itself can’t really move the mountains, you can dream that the mountains have been moved, but for mountains to move the need forces. You yourself can’t really move the mountains and certainly your dreams can’t do it either but its kind of a metaphor to show that some people have extremely strong faith and it helps those people through their lives.
Kutless does an amazing job at portraying that anything is possible through God alone, through having the great poetic elements that they have in their song “What Faith Can Do.” The vocals add sincerity and the instrumentals add an uplifting joy that can move you to be more faithful. They know greatly how to portray “What Faith Can Do” through hyperbole, imagery, and symbolism.
I still think this song should be what faith will do
ReplyDeletethe only thing I would suggest for the one is to try to find some similies for the band name, and mix it up a bit.
ReplyDeletelike start some sentances off with 'the band' or 'the artists' something like that.