| AFI – The Great Disappointment Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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The title is also the name of an important date in the religion of the Seventh Day Adventists. A long time ago, William Miller predicted jesus was going to come back on October 22, 1844. Turns out he was wrong, jesus didn't show and a few kids froze to death during the night. The Seventh Day Adventists refer to this day as The Great Disapoinment. The part that says "While I waited I was wasting away" reminds me of something Henry Emmons, one of the peope who waited for jesus in 1844, wrote: “I waited all Tuesday [October 22] and dear Jesus did not come;– I waited all the forenoon of Wednesday, and was well in body as I ever was, but after 12 o’clock I began to feel faint, and before dark I needed someone to help me up to my chamber, as my natural strength was leaving me very fast, and I lay prostrate for 2 days without any pain– sick with disappointment.” He says that while he waited, he could feel himself wasting away. "Hope was wasting away Faith was wasting away" After The Great Disappoinment, a lot of William Miller's followers lost their "faith" and "hope" in him that he could predict the coming of jesus. "Inside a crumbling effigy But you promised So dies all innocence But you promised me" This sounds like someone has been betrayed or lied to, or angry because someone else was wrong, and they had believed that person at first. |
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