| Alli Rogers – The Day of Small Things Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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To me the song seems to be saying, "It's okay to start small." When we have big plans, when there are problems in our lives that seem like mountains, we usually want to tackle it all at once. We don't want to take baby steps or start with training wheels, we want to do it NOW, and we don't have the patience for the steps it will take to get us there. This song is saying not to despise those steps. We can't tackle it all at once. We have to chip away at it, with the Lord's help, until it "becomes a plain in our eyes." On the inside packet of the CD cover, Alli wrote the Bible verse Zechariah 4:10, which says "Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin..." It's okay to start small. God will help pick up the slack. |
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| Bethany Dillon – Vagabond Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| At first I thought that this was a song about Jesus, but the more I thought about it, the more I began to think that Bethany wrote this song as a tribute to missionaries around the world. She sings to "carry the flame" and "hold it up high with a message of faith." He stays in the streets and ministers to beggars, and even though he's a "bullseye" (because in many countries the practice of Christianity is illegal and thus missionaries would be targeted) he goes from town to town carrying "the flame" of his faith. "His book is a gun that he reads for the people / The words that he speaks have been colored illegal" are really telling. | |
| Bethany Dillon – Imagination Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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To me, the artist is speaking of a journey -- physical, spiritual, emotional, perhaps all three -- she has been uprooted, she has taken "that first step out the door." But somewhere along the way she's gone astray, taken a detour off the path she wanted to follow. "I only stopped to look." Now she's asking God for forgiveness and understanding, and maybe a way back on her road. The chorus speaks the most strongly for this -- "Isn't that just like a finite mind? / Setting out with such righteous indignation / But now I'm at your feet / Could you look at me with some imagination?" She's asking God to look at her with imagination, to look at how far she's come and where she might yet go. Even though we, as human beings, make mistakes and screw up, we can come to the feet of God and he will "look at us with imagination." |
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| Holly Brook – Like Blood Like Honey Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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What I get out of this song is basically this: Love, romantic or platonic, is not a picnic. It can be thick and heavy in our lives -- it gets difficult and complicated and painful, and oftentimes it seems like life would just be easier without it. Sometimes it seems to constrain us. And yet we feel this inexplicable pull towards it ("we cannot spell it out, there are no words"). We are human, and we love. It's in our blood (the double meaning of saying love is "thick like blood"), and we can't really avoid it. "If nothing changes then I'm gonna stop / but do I really have a choice? / I think not," describes it perfectly. Love is a gift and a consequence of being human, so "just bleed the bittersweet." It will always be there. |
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| Raining Jane – Castles and Factories Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song could mean one of two things for me. The simplified version is that we are relying entirely too much on media and technology to form our opinions about the world. The lines "What do you see when you turn off the TV", paired with the absurdity of the statements "believe you me, there are little people in the trees" and "there's a tailor in the sky" seem to suggest that we draw blindly from what we're presented in media and technology, and the song is asking us where we stand when we "turn off the machine." But I'm more inclined to think that the repeated use (and variation) of the line "where do you stand?" is speaking of more than that. Where do you stand when "you turn off the TV"? What are your beliefs when you're not relying "on the machine"? To me this could be saying that to believe in something enough that you would stand up for it is better than utter apathy (possibly engendered by "the machine"?). Believing that there are little people in the trees or tailors in the sky, if you're willing to stand for that, is better than no belief at all. |
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