| Adam Again – Dig Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is one of the most lyrically beautiful songs I have ever heard. The entire second verse is so agonizingly well worded. This is a powerful song about infidelity and the loss that results. This and Charlie Peacock's My Mind Played a Trick on Me are two songs that I wish did not speak to me the way that they do. | |
| Adam Again – Deep Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is all about putting faith in theology. The title, 'Deep', refers to digging deeper into the Bible for answers, looking for more profound truths, but neglecting the simple truths that are so apperent on the surface. The first verse sets the stage. 'Wishful thinking' is the human ideas that occur to us that attempt to put God's truth into some kind of logical structure we can understand. The 'words dance' line implies using logical rhetoric to make the Bible say what we think it 'should' say. I think 'Soldiers of Sorrow' refers to those that create additional rules and regulations on top of the simple commandments that God has given us. The first chorus starts by demonstrating how a clever turn of phrase can lead to something that doesn't make practical sense ('dollar for your dime'). The wild-eyed man is the one looking for deeper truths, literally, with a shovel. But forgotten on the cross are the naked and the lost. The simple truths, and simple needs, are ignored. The 'I don't want to, you don't want to, we don't want to know' probably refers to the collective blindness to the needs around us. Second verse uses the term 'religion' to give a name to this. Religion, in this case, refers to the rules and structure, rather than the faith. Losing the peaceful vision implies a lack of peace with the religion (i.e. a religion without faith). I think the girl ghost in the hallway refers to the Holy Spirit, which prefers when we "walk by faith and not by sight" 'when I rub my eyes'. It could also be a reference to clearing the eyes to remove that which is preventing clear sight. Although the image that comes to my mind is of a student studying late at night who pauses to rub his eyes because he has been staring at his book for too long. The next chorus is some great word-smithing. The 'lunatic fringe' represents those that are more concerned with theology than faith, more concerned with religion than relationship with Jesus. The wide-eyed girl refers back to the first chorus, with the man becoming a girl for strictly lyrical reasons. And of course, the line about dying on the cross is a lover that I long to know refers to the need for a personal relationship with Christ, rather than dry facts of theology. The final verse describes the world with only theology and without a living faith and real relationship with Jesus; Useless, Empty, and Stupid. The 'loveless limits' refers rules and requirements that are man-made and not God ordained. And the results? Immune-deficient fathers, sick sons and dying daughters. But I will keep digging, because the answer has to be down there somewhere, despite the fact that it's staring us in the face. |
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