@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
God is light
Light is good
God is good
There's a bag lady siften through trash in my neighborhood
Asked for a light, ya know I understood
God is light
Light is good
God is good
Where you gonna run when they come for you?
Have you heard about the infant born with a handgun
Shot his twin brother coming out now he's an only son
He's a good boy, wait and see
We'll rehabilitate him one-two-three
God is light
Light is good
God is good
Where you gonna run when they come for you?
They'll hear you playing your guitar
Hey Saint Augustine
There's a flaw you see
You've reasoned quite
Illogically
God is light
Light is good
God is good
Where you gonna run when they come for you?
They'll hear you playing your guitar
God is light
Light is good
God is good
Where you gonna run when they come for you?
Where you gonna run when they come for you?
Where you gonna run when they come for you?
Light is good
God is good
There's a bag lady siften through trash in my neighborhood
Asked for a light, ya know I understood
God is light
Light is good
God is good
Where you gonna run when they come for you?
Have you heard about the infant born with a handgun
Shot his twin brother coming out now he's an only son
He's a good boy, wait and see
We'll rehabilitate him one-two-three
God is light
Light is good
God is good
Where you gonna run when they come for you?
They'll hear you playing your guitar
Hey Saint Augustine
There's a flaw you see
You've reasoned quite
Illogically
God is light
Light is good
God is good
Where you gonna run when they come for you?
They'll hear you playing your guitar
God is light
Light is good
God is good
Where you gonna run when they come for you?
Where you gonna run when they come for you?
Where you gonna run when they come for you?
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Mathematically, if a=b and b=c then a=c.
At first glance, the lyrics of this song would suggest that either God isn't light or that light isn't good, and therefore God isn't good.
But both are relative because "good" is a relative term. Light is good for sunflowers but bad for cave-dwelling salamanders. To argue whether or not God is light is much more abstract, but it remains relative. Thus, one cannot conclude that either statement is positively false.
The first two verses describe evil: poverty and murder. They also present glib solutions (smoking and rehabilitation.) I agree with the previous poster that on a deeper level, the bag-lady asking for a light could be a double-entre, her asking for God.
"Where are you gonna run when they come for you?" is a rather ominous and perplexing refrain. Since Saint Augustine was not a martyr, I believe this is more of a first-person type of question. The first-person perspective is reinforced by the musician himself singing, "They'll hear you playing your guitar."
But who are they, and why are they coming for you?
I see this coming back to logic. The possibilities remaining are that God is good for other reasons (i.e., not because light is good), God is not good, or that God doesn't exist. I don't read anything in the lyrics that suggest that God is good for other reasons.
So, to me, basically this song is saying that you're screwed because God is either not good or doesn't exist.
If you don't pay attention to the lyrics, it's an otherwise upbeat and catchy tune.