| The Band – The Weight Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| I think you're interpreting a song from 4 decades ago with slang from today. I doubt this is a choir song, but you're stretching some of you connections. This is the same method of making words mean what you want that the church people in the '60 would have used to make the same sort of point in order to get the song negative press. | |
| Mumford & Sons – The Cave Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I think this is a song about someone who has been hurt horribly by someone else and instead of holding onto the pain, he's considering giving grace and moving on, focussing on the moving on bit. | |
| Fiction Family – Look for Me Baby Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I don't think that this is reference to God. I think this is the writer's statement of disgust with the false religious of today. I think he's proclaiming that he doesn't need false religion so he is staying goodbye to all that stuff. | |
| U2 – One Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Nice analysis. Very well thought out. I wonder if the "You got to do what you should" like connects with Jesus' commands: Love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and love your neighbor as yourself. And is statement: If you love me, you'll do as I command. It seems also that the idea of being one but not the same is a picture of the spiritual gift is 1 Corinthians chapters 12 and 14. Which of course is significant because sandwiched between those chapters is 1 Corinthians 13, also know as the Love chapter. 1 If I speak in the tonguest of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,t but do not have love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears.11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (NIV) |
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| Fiction Family – Betrayal Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| This song is another genius song by Jon Foreman. There isn't a betrayal in this song. In fact, there are 3 betrayals. First, the friend, if I can call him that, betrays the central character. Second, you see that the woman betrayed the friend by leading him to do something he didn't want to do. Finally, (this is the best part of all) the character in his death betrays them all because instead of suffering into death, his numbness turns their evil deeds back on themselves. So cool! | |
| Fiction Family – Elements Combined Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I'm not sure what the song is about, but I do love the combination of elements: three of the classic elements (earth, wind, fire and water) combined with the of communal elements (bread and wine/body and blood of Christ). I wonder if it somewhere between a worldly person and a spiritual person. Who doesn't live life there? | |
| Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I don't get how anyone can think that this describes heroine use in a pretty fashion. I find the song to be beautiful, but the description to be scary. I think that's the point. The comfortably numb condition sound tragic, not positive. That's the beauty of this song. That there is pain, yet the thing that takes the pain away is equal or worse in ugliness. | |
| U2 – Miracle Drug Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Maybe I'm way off base here, but "I want to trip inside your head" indicates to me a desire for deep intimacy. The drug is love. Not shallow artificial love, but deep intimate love. The kind that is next to impossible to achieve. | |
| U2 – Breathe Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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While the lyrics are complicated, there is one clear point that I see in this song. Grace "I've found grace inside a sound I found grace, it's all that I found" I don't need the 3 things of the man at the door. I don't need the strangers steps to life (life ever after, healthy life, etc.) I don't need to be afraid of the news from the other side of the world or the quick escapism of the world's pleasures. There are difficult things in this world, but in grace, I've done all I can do. For U2 that grace is in their song. You've got a song too. (Maybe it's actually music, maybe its something else.) Live it well and Breathe in grace. |
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| U2 – White As Snow Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Absolutely. And of course the Christ imagery is all over this song. From the lamb as white as snow the the image of a baptism, although a icy one. I don't disagree with the song being about a soldier, but it is a soldier wondering about or discovering that their is one Pure Lamb. The tension is in finding the lamb to become like the lamb or to devourer it as a wolf would. |
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| Jon Foreman – My Love Goes Free Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Could this be about his love for his music? It seems that he could be talking about having that song that may be different enough that as a song writer selling it to the producers is too difficult. I read recently that Foreman and Switchfoot when independent because the record labels wouldn't allow for artistic freedom. "You're in Nashville on the Phone" might be alluding to this point. Also, he chose to do these albums because he wanted to do something different than Switchfoot. The she is the art in the music. Letting it go could mean freely allowing the music to come out of his soul. |
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