| Steve Miller Band – Serenade Lyrics | 3 years ago |
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In my humble opinion, from a completely non-religious standpoint, imagine being an eyewitness to when God created the Heaven on Earth. Here is the testimony from a guy who was there to witness it from a human perspective and was amazed at what he saw. "Did you see the lights As they fell all around you? Did you hear the music ? A serenade from the stars" Pretty self-explanatory. "Let there be light..." is referenced here by our witness, who is amazed at the light that he saw for the first time. The music is the sounds that accompany the creation of light from the heavens upon the Earth; what those sounds are could be simply what he is associating with the earthly things that our witness is seeing for the first time. This is indicative by the next part: "Did you feel the wind As it blew all around you? Did you feel the love That was in the air?" The sound of the wind; the feeling as it blew around our witness. That happy feeling that he is getting from that first-time experience is the love and the joy rushing through him as he feels the wind around him. "The sun comes up And it shines all around you You're lost in space and the earth is your home" This is the fourth day in the Book of Genesis, when the sun rises and becomes the fourth day of Earth. The repeating chorus: "Wake up, wake up Wake up and look around you We're lost in space and the time is our own" …is a human reaction to an epiphany. That he has suddenly become aware of his surroundings. To wake up to the fact that we are traveling through space at an enormous rate of speed and that Mankind's time has arrived; that we are now in our rightful place in God's universe, to do with our time as we wish. The last chorus which should read "and the Earth is our home" refers to the Earth that God has created for us. Whether Steve Miller intended this song to mirror an event in the Bible or not is not important. What is important is how the lyrics are easily able to reflect a biblical event, regardless of your belief system. |
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