Forgiven

Album: Five Score and Seven Years Ago (2006)
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  • Relient K lead singer Matthew Theissen (from the liner notes of Wow Hits 2008): "This song is about a rough situation I went through - a close friend said some things about me that weren't totally kind and weren't totally accurate. The way I dealt with it was by immediately saying, 'Alright, I'm going to forgive you and just get over it and hopefully you can do the same thing for me, and we can just move along.' If I sit and stew on something, it can worsen the situation, whereas if I just forgive, it definitely prevents ulcers. Its really not an issue anymore, but it was very therapeutic to write about."

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