| Iron & Wine – Boy with a Coin Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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| Iron & Wine – Boy with a Coin Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Hooray for caitlin! Whatever ny of the rest of it means, God is not absent in this song. God leaves the "ground," but he "cirlces the earth." That ain't the same as aboandoning the earth. It's a reference to the incarnation, not necesarrily the christian specific one, thought that works here. When people die then the little piece of god that they are leaves the "ground" of individual existence and "circle the earth" blending into the world's oneness. This happens on a smaller scale whenever we have empathy for each others suffering. Suffering is inevitable. Our eyes were made for crying. But suffering can also bring us closer to eachother and closer to God. Suffering gives life it's stakes, it makes it important. It makes the people you know important and maintaining your relationships important. It makes love mean something deeper than a trite birthday card. Love would be meaningless without sacrifice. And sacrifice sould not exist without suffering. This is the very message of the cross. God suffers with us. He is here in the ground, yet he circles the whole world with his empathy. The very trajedy which we consider to be the ultimate- death, is exactly the event that finally enables us to be one with God and the universe. |
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| Iron & Wine – Innocent Bones Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I think that this song is a critique of BOTH organized religion and loose hippie type new ages spirituality. It speaks of the inevitable corruption of humans, organized or not. That's why Cain gets a blade and Abel gets a bag of weed- there's outright cruel evil on one side, and drugged out apathy on the other. I don't think he would say that burning man was the color of the end of days ifhe wasn't being at least a little critical of it. I am a Christian (albeit a weird one) so I may be biased, but it strikes me that the innocent bones holding up the wall are the body of Christ. It's almost definitely Jesus's broken hand (as by the nails) on whom we are to learn to lean. Not that I think this song ultimately comes out in support of the church. I think this song points out how flawed all human efforts are, especally those of the church and those who claim to speak for God. Thusly we only have the source of grace, Christ, to really rely on. NOT the church, but not mere humanity either. Typed on a mobile, so forgive my typos. |
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