Personal Narrative: Tenth Avenue

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"So you thought you had to keep this up All the work that you do So we think that you're good And you can't believe it's not enough All the walls you built up Are just glass on the outside." Few songs can affect or should I say infect me the way this song does. Tenth Avenue is not the band I would have ever listened to if you asked me before the middle of my freshman year at North Miami Beach senior high one might even assume that my genre of music was anger and it would have been true. This song address a common myth that as Christian we are perfect and without fault and if there is fault we should take a mask and try to hide the problem and that will fix it. As a young returning believer my mentality was tainted with imperfect perfections,

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