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- 'TobyMac' by Semler is out now: ffm.to/tgft
Video Directed & Edited by Reid Bode
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Lyrics
I wanna make my girl a mixtape
Of love songs she'd know were just from me
But the only songs I know are Christian
So I have to think strategically
Like when TobyMac said, "You consume me"
I thought of her and how her eyes see through me
And Switchfoot has an "Only hope"
And that's her for me even though I know
They wrote 'em for God, for Jesus
For a savior, ain't that nice?
But I'm seventeen
And I want someone real to hold at night
And I'm terrified, I'm terrified
They'd hate me if they knew
I'm using worships songs to say I love you
Would they hate me if they knew?
Well there's a drag queen out in Tennessee
She dedicates her act to Amy
Well "Baby, baby" I hope one day she'll be acknowledged
Like Relient K fucking got my ass through college
But would they hate us if they knew?
Is it hard to be oblivious?
Did you flinch when you threw "a little more" under the bus?
But when the check comes is it glorious?
What's it cost to ignore us?
Maybe I'd hate you if I knew
Maybe I'd hate you if I knew
I wanna make my girl a mixtape
Of love songs she'd know were just from me
But the only songs I know are Christian
So I have to think strategically - เพลง
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I was washing dishes one night back in 1992, and thinking about my lesbian crush at church, and how it hurt so much to be in love with her, when Ann Murray's song, "I Wanna Sing You a Love Song" came on the radio. Semler, your tender song here brings it all back. Thank you, in a bittersweet sort of way. 💜🌈💜
A major moment in my bi awakening was during an apologetics discussion with another evangelical dude. We each got more giddy, the more we agreed, and I liked the way his arms filled his shirt.
The dog completes this set
He really is a star
the vibe of this video is legit giving me chills. Great job Semler!!!!
Thank youuuuu
This song perfectly encapsulates my childhood growing up in an extremely sheltered evangelical Christian home. Another song of yours where I think your spying on me :p
💜 This is so, so heart-wrenchingly beautiful.
I’m speechless. Except for this…
Wow.
Wow.
Such a pure message your heart shares. All of your music. I’m working my way through your work. But this.. 🥲.
Semler, Adeem, and Flamy have literally changed my world, and in such a powerful way. I’m 62. My heart is just wide open.
I never saw this movement coming, and it’s coming right out of the Bible Belt. I’m right here with you.
Semler, my dear one, you have blessed the world with a message of pure Christ love. You, Adeem, Flamy, You are angels sent here to perform a sacred mission: to unleash all of the pent-up love in the world, and spreading it all over everybody.
I have been in the love since discovering Flamy Grant (along with the rest of the world!) just recently when the tweet happened. 😃 She has been such a huge deal in my consciousness and living in my mind,constantly hearing her songs and absorbing her message. I am somehow back in love with life and love’s potential in every moment of every day.
Everyone wants to love and everyone wants to be loved. That being established, we can work out these other minor details.
The artists will lead the way, and we are ALL artists, if we create something good.
🔥
❤️
We are love.
We are one.
I love you all.
I love myself.
I Am love.
I AM
Semler,
Thank you.
🙏 David.
Come to Atlanta!
I guess I need to come back to Instagram.
🫥😑🙃😇see ya there.
remembering the girl from church who introduced me to tobymac songs in high school 💔. It's been almost a decade since I stopped listening to christian music and I can still remember every line.
Cool now non binary
@@rogersmith434 I was gonna ask "who?" but in this scenario most likely everyone. Me, certainly.
If you close your eyes at the beginning you can almost visualize your 34 year old long shirt and leggings wearing worship leader tuning their guitar before a worship night where you proceed to pray for your crush to like you back
Exactly
THANK U she’s singing a weird love story that has nothing to do with God nor Jesus and she even says it has nothing to do with God in the beginning, it’s just love story to a girl and called a Christian song so people wouldn’t find out it’s a love song for a girl L0L 😎💯
made me cry but in a way that made my heart grow, you know? ❤️Its so good
Jen and James from Fundie Friday's sent me. Looking forward to the interview
I think Amy Grant would like it. She's been supportive
I'm here from Fundie Friday as well and I'm DELIGHTED to find Semler.
This was beautiful.
I'm a cishet guy, and I did this same thing. When I was 14, there was a family in my parents' Bible study who would had a daughter around my age. We'd babysit the younger kids while our parents were in the study, and I burned so many CDs to have these super hidden confessions of my love to her.
May I ask why people are so mean in their words here? If you don't like the song, find it not good fitting in your own box of believes. Let it be... be kind and don't be so harsh. Why you are even here then? Listening to a song made from the heart and soul from a lady that is so brave beyond words. Bless you Semler! May God bless you beautiful soul! Thank you for giving us a voice
this song just. oh boy. it Hits.
I'm experiencing all the emotions at once. this is beautiful
Grace, I saw you open for Relient K in Atlanta today and can I just say, as a gay Christian (in ministry, no less) I laughed and cried and felt every emotion with everyone in the room when you took the stage. I am so glad, blessed, excited, and so, so, so touched that you exist, that you are making music, and that you are... just you. It meant so much to me to see a room full of people supporting you (and, like, not to be weird, but me? by proxy? kinda?) and so I can't even begin to imagine how it must feel for you. Proud of you, and loved your set. From a new fan.
So iconic that within a year you're performing this song on tour with Reliant K
That's awesome
I love this and I loved lil bean sleeping through it like it’s a lullaby
I can't get this song out of my head ❤
I love this song and I absolutely adore you! Thank you for sharing your heart the way you do ♥️
I love how this song sort of goes back to what you said in your Refinery 29 video about the Christian music industry and how you weren't sure the artists of the songs that got you through hard times would support you and your sexuality. This song is beautiful and compelling, I hope to hear more like this from you and from others.
This is so powerful, so beautiful - thank you for sharing !
I love that your dog is so unbothered 😍🐕
As someone who realized they were gay after falling in love with their homophobic best friend at church, this song hits different and I'm honestly obsessed.
What you said in a nutshell 💙
🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔
So genuinely fantastic
This is a brilliant song. Seriously, it’s perfect.
Love this so much.
The Mac is back no slack
Hey what is the quote referring to?
@@rinnihdutchy9425 - old school DC Talk. Listen to Jesus Is Just Alright from the Free At Last album
@@mattybond Thanks!!!
Beautiful and heartbreaking. I'm cishet and being a teenager was tough enough romantically, I couldn't imagine what gay kids go through, then adding in the religious layer, phew! *hugs*
THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL
I love this!
Everything about this is amazing!
I've missed something since I been gone. Deconstructed 6 years ago
Here’s to little me getting beat up by the other Christian kids and never punching the girl back because I was hopelessly in love with her
I think Jon Foreman would like that song. It sounds like his solo work. He’d probably hug you though so...be ready. :-)
I have a strong feeling Matt Thiessen would feel the same way :)
...Well shit, that was great.
As a non-binary person who grew up in the nondenominational Christian church I find all your music super relatable
Funny that you called yourself a man
@@conservativecalvinist3308 well it’s a good thing I later realized I wasn’t either so jokes on you
@@castelivision4745 lol edited
@@conservativecalvinist3308 yeah your pretty funny too
@@castelivision4745 thanks
perhaps my favorite song of yours
MIss you Grace.
Wogooo
The line "Maybe I'd hate you if I knew" hits so hsrd
I grew up on Christian music and artists who were on the edge of being Christian music and it hurts knowing some of my favorites would hate me if they knew me. Why shouldn't I hurl that hate right back? But I can't. I can't because they meant so much to me that I'd orefer to pretend they're not all secret (or not so secret) bigots
Bean is such a cutie :)) honestly I wanna have a staffie myself hehe
oh man growing up closeted + in church, this is *so* damn relatable. liking another girl but not having the vocabulary or access to be able to express that out loud.
i also just saw the documentary you did on the christian music industry (very cool!) so some of the lines here had me thinking of that too. (Especially, "But when the check comes is it glorious? What's it cost to ignore us?")
anyway, i found your music recently and i'm so glad i did! it's been a lifesaver. honestly
Matthew 3:2 Turn away from your sins, he said, because the Kingdom of heaven is near!
Amen!
Romans 14:10
Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.
John 8:7
And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Matthew 7:2-5
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, “Let me take the speck out of your eye,” when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
They wrote them for Jesus but I want someone REAL to hold at night? But you claim to be a Christian, or are you doing this out of spite?
Let's extend grace regardless of what we think
As a Christian we shouldn't spew hate
Just listen to the story and try to be more of a listening ear rather than assume you know what she is going through
Yeah I noticed that too. I'm not hating or anything but it does seem odd she claims to be a Christian then suddenly implies God isn't real? Or maybe she just meant physically apparent, perhaps a better wording could have been chosen.
as a songwriter myself, what you write isn't always your core beliefs. it's often a way of grappling with your beliefs. it's an expression of a feeling and it's better to write those thoughts down and send them out into the void than let them fester
Romans 14:10
Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.
John 8:7
And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Matthew 7:2-5
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, “Let me take the speck out of your eye,” when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
🤔 🤔 🤔
this is very sad...
Right?? People should have the right to love freely
How disrespectful to use songs that are made to show our love for God or His love for us and try to get a chick's attention with it... that's just not okay 😢
May you surrender your life to Christ Jesus so that He can set you free from a lifestyle that will consign you to the Lake of Burning Sulfur according to Revelation 21:8.
Romans 1:26-31.
The Bible is very plain. Your behavior isn't Christian. Stop pretending.
wanna read literally the verses before that , particularly romans 1 23 "Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles" its talking about a specific cult, i.e the cult of isis, which did have homoerotic rituals, and was prominent in both pauls hometown of Tarsus and Rome. It isnt a condemnation of same sex relationships generally
Very talented. That being said, this is not Christian music, and you are not a Christian. I would not be doing you any favors by pretending otherwise. As a Christian I am called to love my neighbor as myself, and love is and will always go hand and hand with truth. I know in your song "Jesus from Texas" you refer to your lifestyle as a blessing. It is not. It is sin. And we all must truly repent for our sins and turn to Jesus or the eternal consequence will be death. Hell. There is no way around that. I'll be praying for you.
a) to define homosexuality as a sin you must remove historical cultural and linguistic context from the relevant verses.
b) even if it was a sin having the wrong theological opinion doesn't send you to hell, she still abides by the apostles creed and fully qualifies as a christian
@@noaht8592 Nope
@@tostondepuracepa5376 I'll pray for you
Abiding by the apostles creed does not make one a Christian. Accepting Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of your life and glorifying Him in your daily life makes you a Christian. This song quite obviously was created to glorify her and her lifestyle. She has a beautiful voice. I pray that she will come to know Him and use her voice to glorify God. Some will call this a message of hate. Go ahead if you must. Calling something hate doesn't make it so and choosing not to believe something doesn't make it true.
Romans 14:10
Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God.
John 8:7
And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Matthew 7:2-5
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, “Let me take the speck out of your eye,” when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
How can you call yourself a Christian?
a) to define homosexuality as a sin you must remove historical cultural and linguistic context from the relevant verses.
b) even if it was a sin having the wrong theological opinion doesn't send you to hell, she still abides by the apostles creed and fully qualifies as a christian
Smh
Blasphemy
Toby Mac does not approve
Good
She doesn't have enough talent to make it as a secular artist so she put her album under "Christian music" that's the extent of her Christianity. She openly writes against God and is blasphemous. Just listen to her hear. Jesus she's lost, you can save her, you can.
Evanescence was the same way and some say relient k did that to make money not sure if that was true or not
Why ? This has nothing really to do with God nor Christian, it’s mostly about a weird love story and u just say God and Christian In it so it could supposedly be a Christian song and decided to name it TOBY MAC ? Like why name it after a legendary Christian artist Toby Mac for when he has no correlation with this song. I’m just bewildered and disappointed at the same time. 😔💯
Is that "why" a rhetorical question or would you actually like an answer? The song is expressing how, being in love with a girl growing up, the only songs the artist had to express it were songs about God, from artists like Toby Mac.
The lyrics are pretty clear, friend. Maybe give it another listen & reconsider if you're responding in a christlike manner to someone describing being as a 17 year old kid, terrified "they'd hate me if they knew." Like, I'm sorry the name of your legendary fav christian artist was sullied by someone else's personal thoughts, experiences, & feelings, but there are people in the world who aren't you. 😔💯
What was bewildering? If that doesn't clarify, maybe I could explain?
@@gc6929 SMH, you copied my 😔💯 smart butt 😹 and everything I said was correct because she claims to be a Christian singer, which she’s not; I don’t get your point? The only thing you're trying to say is I shouldn’t have an opinion, or I don’t know what’s her valid message in the song when Ik her purpose she was singing in the music, just that I disagree what she’s trying to say in the song. Therefore, I can hypothetically speak, the same thing about you, how there are people in the world who aren’t you. 😔💯 L0L, so IDK what you’re trying to get at; if she doesn’t claim to be a Christian signer, then I wouldn’t have a problem at all, but she claims to be a Christian signer and then uses Toby macs name for whatever reason when he’s not relevant to the song or theirs nothing Christian in this love song, so I’m repeating my self once again Jajaja 🤪😌
@@Ruben2Lit Ah I see. ok. I'll try to keep if brief. She can call herself what she wants. You don't dictate who's a Christian artist. But ur entitled to ur opinion, so fair enough ig.
You didn't say ur issue was w her claiming to be a christian signer. You said there was no correlation w the song to Christianity & Toby Mac. I never said u shouldn't have an opinion, I explained the correlation. If u disagree w what they said, just say that? Maybe it's just my poor reading comprehension, but I genuinely didn't know that's what u were implying. U called urself "bewildered." I thought u meant u didn't understand her purpose in the song. It appears I misunderstood. (& admittedly got snappy. I was miffed, tbh.)
"and then uses Toby macs name for whatever reason when he’s not relevant to the song or theirs nothing Christian in this love song,"
Genuinely, wdym by "not relevant"? If God & Toby Mac were part of her experience, they're a relevant part of a song abt that experience. You lost me.
(also, if u reply I'll respond to it once, but then I'm out. I don't need to be cluttering this comment section.) (Edit: this was not brief, sorry.)
@@gc6929 L0L, I could tell you love to debate and argue. I like that, but you do have a point about how I can’t decide who’s Christian and who isn’t, but by the way, I see It, she’s not, and one of the main reasons is I believe she’s already married to women, which is a sin, but I believe you can be a homosexual and still be a Christian but you have to not partake into the sin like sleeping with the same gender, or anything like that which is a sin
@@Ruben2Lit "I could tell you love to debate and argue." Yeah it's something I'm working on. which is why I shouldn't have engaged here whatsoever.
If you're homophobic, just say your homophobic. You started this saying you were bewildered as to what God & Toby Mac had to do with the song. Which is clearly not what you meant. A loving God is not a bigot & does not create people a certain way & then condemn them for it. Anyways, I used to be in your shoes, so I can only hope you learn better.
Okey-dokey, I'm shutting up now & won't be back. Have a day.✌️
You're completely crazy
a woman using Christian music to get another woman... Satan fell because of pride.
At least she's honest that Christianity and Worship music is 100% not conforming to homosexuality in any way. And at least she's honest that she's 100% comfortable in twisting the Word of God and singing "worship" sings not to God but her deviancy.
No
Cope 😂
This is like a much more heartbreaking Christian and Queer version of heart songs by Weezer.
No