| The Thermals – Returning to the Fold Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Not much. I can't say one way or the other. I haven't been convinced, I guess. I don't know if I ever will be. But I had this point in my life where I believed in a higher power. And I even liked organized religion at one point - I was really into my Christian church in high school. ... I have a problem with organized religion; that's completely separate of my faith. My faith is just something that I don't know if I'll ever have, but I had something in the past. I've had a love of faith before, but it's not like I believed and then lost my faith. It's more that I've never been fully convinced." - Harris. He's basically an agnostic that has Catholic/Christian roots. His lyrics reflect that for the most part. |
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| The Thermals – Returning to the Fold Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| It's unbelievable how ignorant some of you are in regards to the general tone and underlying meaning in these songs. Somehow you got into your heads that every single song is about a "totalitarian theocracy" and every single lyric is filtered through that over-simplified view. It's pretty obvious in these songs that he has had some sort of Christian education or perhaps that was his background growing up. Most songs oscillate between a blatant condemnation of "hypocritical Christianity" to an existential dilemma where he can't see meaning beyond a Christian worldview. "He's tired of fighting the system so he wants to return to the fold..." - This is probably the most idiotic suggestion EVER (along with Alejo's) for any of these songs. Why would someone who writes an entire album about "totalitarian theocracy" throw his hands up and say "Forget it, I'm going to be one of them!"? Lines like: "but I still have faith, if I ever had faith" show that he's struggling with SOMETHING, be it to find meaning (returning to Christian roots) or something else. In certain songs he seems to be deriding a worldview like that of Nietzsche (the will to power). "I will die returning to the fold" - He seems to satirizing this sort of thing (where a person says a prayer before they die) and yet the lines "but I still have..." show that this is something more than deriding "Christian hypocrisy" in wanting to escape hell-fire by saying a prayer at the last moment. He might even be satirizing himself and his mindset in regards. | |
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