Lyrics
I've never been to Hong Kong in mid-July,
I've never played croquet and I don't know why.
There are many things that I have yet to try.
Sometimes I feel like an open book,
Still there's places no one's ever dared to look.
If you find those pages will you read them all aloud?
I don't have the answers,
I don't have a clue.
I'm better off if I just wait on you.
I try to keep my balance,
Put my fears up on the shelf,
But I'm still not very well acquainted with myself.
Sometimes I'm scared to travel far from home
When I venture out into the great unknown,
But the truth is I know I am never all alone.
You're always by my side improving me,
Not a day goes by when you're not moving me.
You're the center of my every thought and my whole world.
I don't have the answers,
I don't have a clue.
I'm better off if I just wait on you.
I try to keep my balance,
Put my fears up on the shelf,
But I'm still not very well acquainted with myself.
My insufficiencies are your sufficiencies,
And my mistakes are covered with your grace.
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Meaning & Inspiration
"Acquainted" opens with a long list of ordinary unknowns, unfamiliar places, untried activities, functioning as a lighthearted introduction to a more serious admission: genuine uncertainty about the self. Its narrator describes feeling like an open book with unexplored pages, inviting someone else to read what remains hidden even from personal view.
That uncertainty leads directly into dependence rather than anxiety, admitting a lack of answers while choosing to wait rather than search alone. The song's repeated confession, not being well acquainted with oneself, reframes self-knowledge as secondary to trusting a God who already knows fully what remains unclear personally.
A second verse turns from self-uncertainty to companionship, describing constant presence and gentle improvement rather than distant observation. Its closing line states a direct theological exchange, personal insufficiency answered by God's sufficiency and mistakes covered by grace, tying the song's earlier uncertainty to a settled resolution found outside the self rather than within it.
Related Scripture
- Psalm 139:1-4 Describes God's complete knowledge of a person, echoed in the song's admission of not fully knowing oneself while trusting God who does.
- 2 Corinthians 12:9 Describes God's grace as sufficient for weakness, directly echoed in the song's closing line about insufficiency answered by God's sufficiency.