Song Producer: The Legend of Xero
Video Director: Kevin Porter
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Bio: The Legend of XERO is a traveling, evangelistic, music ministry that employs pop, rap, dance music, and costume to deliver the Gospel of Jesus Christ in a creative, intelligent, and challenging way. Our show is geared toward teens and young adults who are either Christians, or people who are trying to find their spiritual identity.

Song Lyrics:
(Verse 1)
She ceases her cries and the light goes out in the window
she searches her mind for a time in her life when she felt this low

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cause in her dreams
she’s a queen without a worry to die for
but when its real
there’s only tears and there’s a hole in her heart

(Chorus)
She’s waiting
pleading
for a hero
who can fly right down and
“Save me!  Take me far away”

and she’s praying
is she crazy?
Is there no one
who will give her a chance
she’s waiting for heaven to save the day

(Verse 2)
and we walk right by
cause we don’t see the kind of pain that’s living inside of her
and we walk right by
cause we don’t wanna deal with all of the drama surrounding her
and we wonder why
she don’t understand the beauty and life she was given
we need to take more time
to take this girl by the hand and be a loving witness

(Rap)
if we could see inside, if we could read her mind
we’d probably see all the rain and the shine
but now-a-days it seems that the storms are coming a lot more
she don’t got a shoulder to cry on
she needs support
that’s when you become the one in her life to shine a light and help to lead her to Christ
cuz until then whenever we just let her walk on by without a word
we’re just letting her die

Story Behind The Song:
When I first learned about Human Trafficking, it was more or less presented to me as another charity that needed support.  For some reason it was something that all the Christian bands were excited about.  It seemed to me that if bar bands were being endorsed by red bull, and Jagermeister, Christian bands were being endorsed by Human Trafficking Charities.  At least that’s how it was presented to me.  At times it seemed like we, as a culture, were celebrating it more than “raising awareness”, and I was rather disgusted by the whole concept being that there was so much suffering involved.

Eventually I got to the point that I was seeing it EVERYWHERE.  One year, while I was backing up a friend at a Christian music festival, I noticed a huge banner behind us.  It seemed like that Celebrated human Trafficking organization was sponsoring the concert.  I certainly hope that’s not what was happening, but at the time that’s how it looked.  I never pursued to find out.  After our set, I decided to seek out they’re tent and get some answers.  I was walked through the basic story, and then asked to journey into the tent to learn more.

Inside was a  model of an average 8 to 10 year-old’s bedroom, equipped with rock star posters and video games, toy guns, cool clothing, etc.  in the next room was a model of little boy’s room who had been kidnapped and trained as a child soldier.  His room came equipped with government propaganda and a dirt floor, military blankets and a cantine. I was immediately crushed!

No one had bothered to tell me that boys were being kidnapped too.  Sure, I heard all about the sex slaves, and while I was saddened by it, I also felt powerless and disgusted by it.  Powerless, because I have no realistic expectations of seeing perverts give up they’re power, be it porn, slavery, incest, rape or any other way they like to get off.  They WANT to keep doing it, and if we shut them down, someone else just opens up shop down the road.  Disgusted, because these people aren’t gonna stop because they don’t ever expect to be caught.  They’re treated as elites and men of power.  To them it’s like a rare sport, and they have the money to keep it going.  They’re sin is deep, and they have no reason to change if they feel empowered by it, but worse, it’s not the 3rd world rebels that are the main perps, it’s the first world elites.  They could stop it, but so many of them are part of the problem, and who’s gonna turn in their own dad if he’s the source of they rich lifestyle?  And with so much Misogyny and Sexually-explicit music playing in every venue I visit today, it seems like the next level of where the world was going.  TRYING TO OWN PEOPLE LIKE PETS OR TOYS!!  It’s exactly like the drug problems in the world….exactly.

Anyway, I was so upset that no one had told me the whole story, that I left the tent.  I talked to the group about their mission.  I wanted to know what they were doing.  It turns out that they were funding Rambos to go in and take these children back by force.  They were risking their lives to save them.  They were heroes.  This wasn’t a bunch of hipsters playing acoustic guitar in a coffee shop.  This was REAL!  They were real.  So I made it a point that I would spend my tithe money there that week.  I wanted to help save a child.

Still, I was really upset by the whole movement, and in my mind I couldn’t escape the thoughts.  I began to have nightmares about it:

In one of the dreams, I was a superhero who had befriended a little girl who was a sex slave, and I vowed to free her.  At that same moment a customer came to her tent and dragged her away.  I saw the man who was selling her and in a weird, movie-like, slow motion wide shot, I saw myself appear out of a cloud of black smoke from the wall.  I grabbed the man and took him into a black cloud on the floor, never to be heard from again.  Then I went after the customer.

It was God’s way of telling me that he would avenge those children in his own way, but I needed to befriend the weak.  The next day, I stumbled upon Isiah 1:17 and it was the basis for this song.  I realize I can’t changed the wicked, and many times I can’t change the silly either, but I can help the weak, and I can support those few heroes who are out there fighting real battles in the mission field.  I can also shatter deceptions and restore those affected by it with God’s truth.  That’s the only way I see as a real option