quick thought on worship

After spending a semester abroad with completely different opinions surrounding me within and without of the group, and after spending a semester living with my roommate, I've learned quite a few things about opinions and differing views. One thing I have yet to understand is worship. I try to maintain a balance of views on this subject, but there are just some songs that irk me. Check this song out:

I'm so deep in love
So deep in love
So deep in love
So deep in love (x3)

The verses you ask? Why of course, here's an example:

I've fallen deep in love with you
I've fallen deep in love with you
Deeper than any ocean blue
Depth that no death can hold me too
I'm so deep in love with you*

Worship Musician's Magazine says that this artist's "artistry, startling voice and very capable songwriting ability will eventually lead them to value the album as the fine work of art it is.”

Songwriting ability? I'm sorry, but I wrote poems similar to that in 6th grade, back when I thought all non-Christian music was bad and I burned my CD's at camp. "Deeper than any ocean blue"? Come on, seriously. And this guy's getting paid for that?! Why don't I get paid for writing this blog that no one reads except Ben and my parents?

I have 3 problems with this type of music:

1. The lyrics and thoughts focus primarily on ourselves. Of course, the Christian faith wouldn't exist if there were no followers; however, wasn't it God who first loved us?
2. There's no depth to this kind of "worship". I understand that worship is a personal process and that people worship differently than I. But seriously, chanting a mantra over and over again turns us into zombies. What kind of person would want to believe in a faith that chants "I'm so deep in love with you" over and over again? There's a difference between personal worship preferences and misinterpreting a worship experience for an emotional high.
3. This song and others like it are entirely too safe. God loves us, but He loves us so fiercely and unconditionally that he threw himself up on a wooden beam so that we wouldn't have to! He wants us to experience His life and His character, not just sing about how much we've fallen in love with him. As Mark Buchanan would say, this is a borderland song. This "god" is too safe.

I realize that I'm probably being overly-cynical and overcritical of this guy's efforts, and for that I want to remind you that I'm still working through all of these ideas - hence the blog's title. Also, its my blog. You didn't have to read it. I do give him credit because he's got a much better voice than I ever had/will have. But really, when you get right down to it, what should be our focus when we worship? Worship is something that has mystified and intrigued me for a couple years now, and I still don't understand the half of it. All that I can think about is this from C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (I enjoyed the movie except for how they butchered this quote):

"Safe?" said Mr. Beaver; "don't you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? 'Course he isn't safe. But he's good. He's the king, I tell you."

*If you ever sing this in church, please let me know. I will appreciate it.