Christian artists, listen up!

First off let me say that I've given the Christian radio stations a chance time and time again.  I think "maybe this time I will hear something inspiring, something I will really like".  I struggled through one song and try to make it through another and I cave.  

Don't get me wrong, I believe in most of the lyrics but some of the songs are so boooooring and lyrically unimaginative.  I might be impressed if the songs were written by 2nd graders but they aren't.

I'll listen to 80's era Petra (though surely some of those lyrics are equally uninspired and cheesy).  I like Johnny Q. Public.  I like some Steven Curtis Chapman.  I haven't found much Christian music that really makes me think.

I dub myself a lyriphile (lover of lyrics).  If you don't say something I haven't heard a billion times, I'm not likely to like your music (dance music is excluded just because it's dance music, that's all).

My favorite artists are Toad The Wet Sprocket (Walk On The Ocean), Crowded House (Fall At Your Feet, Better Be Home Soon), The Cure (Pictures of You).  

If you know any Christian artists that write music like that, I'd love to know about it.

From Pictures of You:

Remembering you, how you used to beSlow drowned you were angels, so much more than everythingHold for the last time then slip away quietlyOpen my eyes but I never see anything