| Skillet – Looking For Angels Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I don't know if I'd limit this song just to polyamory and sex. I mean, of course, that may be the reason he started to write the song, but it covers way too many themes to be so narrow. Obviously internet pornography and sex play a part in the song, but I think it's about the widespread fallenness of the world. I used this song in a sermon once - I related it to Matthew 25:31-46, and I must admit, I changed each of the instances of the word "angels" to "Jesus", so that the theme of the song tied in more completely to verse 40 in that passage: "In the midst of the most painful of faces, Jesus shows up in the strangest of places", in orer to demonstrate that you don't have to look very hard to see the face of Jesus in the eyes of the poor, the homeless, the hungry, the broken, the cast-out. But also, that final line "angels show up in the strangest of places" reminds me of Hebrews 13:1-2. "Keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters. Do not forget to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing, some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it." I love the song because it speaks so frankly about issues that many Christians shy away from, like pornography and drug abuse. |
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| Dream Theater – Disappear Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I love the lyrics, but for me the power of this song is in the arrangement, which is just incredibly well put together. | |
| Jon Foreman – White As Snow Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| Yup, Psalm 51 - seems to be paraphrased slightly from the NIV. That's my favourite psalm for forgiveness. | |
| Demon Hunter – On Thousand Apologies Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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I love this song - one of my favourite Demon Hunter songs. I saw three dimensions to this song, and I love it when a song can have more than one meaning depending on how you look at it! First - it's a person making apologies to someone they hurt. That's the most obvious one, and it's also the one that Demon Hunter cite on their website. Second - It's a person apologising to Jesus. I get this from a couple of places, like "And everything I could have been, erased by what I wanted then", as in someone sacrificing their discipleship and returning to their sinful nature just for that one cheap thrill. That's something I've struggled with a lot in my Christian life. Also, "I never should have let it pass, this fall was never meant to last; the reason gone and damage stays" makes me think of the Fall of man, that Jesus came to reverse, and in the knowledge of this how the speaker should never have gone back on this - and how, after you screw up bigtime, you can't even see why it appealed to you so much, but the shame stays with you regardless. Lastly - it seems to me a monologue from Judas after the betrayal in Gethsemane. "There you stood in disbelief, trying all you could to see through these lies and every word that I could breathe would find you more inclined to leave" That sounds like a betrayal to me. Again, the line "Everything I could have been, erased by what I wanted then." Judas was a disciple of the Son Of God - an apostle! - yet he sacrificed all of that because he didn't see the worldly kingdom he was expecting of the Messiah. Sold the Son of God for thirty pieces of silver - yet how much less have I sold him for, in my life! "And I walked the streets alone, accepting pain I'd never known, as you died." Perhaps Judas after Jesus' arrest? Overcome with guilt and shame, so he hangs himself instead of seek forgiveness? I don't know. These are just my thoughts on the song. |
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