I See Things Upside Down

What looks like failure is success
What looks like poverty is riches
When what is true looks more like a knife
It looks like you're killing me but you're saving my life

And I give myself to what looks like love
And I sell myself for what feels like love
And I pay to get what is not love
And all just because I see things upside down

What looks like weakness can do anything
What looks like foolishness is understanding
When what is powerful has not come to fight
It looks like you're going to war but you laid down your life

But I give myself to what looks like love
And I sell myself to what feels like love
And I pay to get what is not love
And all just because I see things upside down

What looks like torture is a time to rejoice
And what sounds like thunder is a comforting voice
When what is beautiful looks broken and crushed
And I say I don't know you but you say it's finished

-Derek Webb "What Is Not Love" from the album I See Things Upside Down