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San Diego alt-rockers Switchfoot have released the music video for "Restless" serves as the co-lead single with their mainstream single, "Dark Horses," from group's eighth studio album "Vice Verses." After a year of touring for their Grammy winning CD "Hello Hurricane," they went back to the studio and have worked hard on their new CD "Vice Verses." Stuffed to the rafters with one melodic triumph after the other, the record could quite possibly be Switchfoot's finest work yet.
Lead singer and principal songwriter for the band Jon Foreman wrote the song in Europe, with the intent of "trying to embody the story of the rain," which comes from the idea that raindrops are on a "relentless" journey back to the ocean, and in this song he examines his place in the world alongside nature. "I was thinking about the idea that I'm on a journey myself," said Foreman: "Restless is the story of my life: thirsty, reaching, yearning for more."
"'Restless' was inspired over in the UK. I was listening to the rain and watching these individual drops drip down the window and thinking that every one of them is in pursuit of the ocean, that they will stop at nothing, and gravity will eventually one day lead them to the ocean. And I began to think of my own life and wondering if I had that same drive, that same pursuit for that which is right and true. And then I was thinking through C.S. Lewis' idea that this life, when we're aware of beauty, it's kind of a bittersweet thing, that it's a transient reminder of eternal beauty, which someday we will be face to face with."
Switchfoot frontman admitted that he hasn't always been that thrilled with their videos, but this time out everything fell into place. "Yeah, they don't always turn out the way you pictured them to, but this video we kind of did ourselves, with the help with our friends at Hurley. We feel that these songs truly come to life in a live setting so we wanted to deliver a video that captured that feeling. I'm really excited with the way it turned out." The energy Foreman and the band puts into their performance came across authentic and inspiring.