| Blind Pilot – Half Moon Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| These lyrics are fraught with errors, but I'm sure you did you best with what you heard. I would recommend checking it with what's written in the album booklet and correcting them. They really are a mess. | |
| Josh Garrels – Ulysses Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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itslittlejohn and jallenw have it right. I thought this was about Odysseus, but the song's name was Ulysses. I asked my sister who has read Homer, "Who was Ulysses?" She said it was the character in the Odyssey who was trying to get home to his wife. I said "I thought his name was Odysseus." Then she was like, "Now your confusing me. I don't know who it is." All this to say, thanks to Jallenw for clearing it up for me. Anyhow, the song is about this character in the Odyssey. I believe Josh identifies and sympathizes with this character because the Christina life has similarities to this story. In the context of this album, I think Josh is using the story of the Odyssey as a metaphor for the Christian life. But I definitely understand your confusion cdm369. I was having the exact same thoughts as you were. |
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| Josh Garrels – Million Miles Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| In the context of the album, I think this song is about Biblical love between a husband and wife. It's pretty self explanatory though. I love how the album fits so well together. It is a really amazing album. | |
| Josh Garrels – White Owl Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Actually garland2alike, I had a completely different thought when I first listened to the song. I think it is a song about the great commission. He speaks about how God will lead us when the road gets dark. We were born (born again) to take the greatest light. (the light of the Gospel) Matthew 10:16 "Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves." God will send us, and we are to use wisdom "born of love" meaning, God's wisdom. We are to carry visions from above and the flame into every dark place. This is the mission of the great commission. Jesus often called his disciples peacemakers or messengers of peace. His disciples are to release the beauty of the Gospel, the news of peace between God and man. Josh mentions "the great divide" in his song Flood Waters, saying that we will leave the chords of death behind us at the great devoid. I think the great divide is a line that devised death from life, darkness from light. We are to sail across the great divide, into death and darkness, taking the good news of the Gospel. The Gospel is to be delivered with our voice, to break the silence and the power of the Devil that keeps others from the glory of Christ. Stories of redemption will be written for those who respond to our message. Blood on the moon might be a reference to Christ's blood, or the persecution we may face. But morning will come soon when the believers are taken to be with God, away from the darkness of this world. Chorus: For the believers, it is time to "go unto all the world" and Jsus will be with us "even unto the ends of the earth." Every dream, or vision that God has delivered through his word, will be used to build us into a person of refuge. The message we take will be a home that shelters those in darkness. He is using the metaphor of someone sent out into a frightening wilderness, on a mission, to remind us of how we have been sent out into the darkness of the world to spread the Gospel. |
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| Sufjan Stevens – Abraham Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I'm curious as what he means by "worth a righteous one." It could be saying that Abraham was worth Jesus (the only righteous one) giving His life to save him. But that doesn't seem to go with how the Bible describes all men as unworthy of the sacrifice. I think it's interesting that so many can't see this story for what it is. It's about how we deserve to be burnt up, but God provided the ultimate sacrifice in our place, Jesus. |
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| Dar Williams – The Christians and the Pagans Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Cute song. The problem is that those people weren't real Christians. Traditional Christian belief is neither to kill pagans or overlook differences. The "Christian way" it to love the pagan and point out that they have committed crimes against the one true monotheistic God. And that that God has no choice but to punish them unless they repent and turn to him. More appropriately titled: The Pagans and the Pagans |
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| Fiction Family – Closer Than You Think Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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You might actually be right. I'v been thinking about this song and it seems that the chorus is disagreeing with the verses. He'll state some things in the verses, and then refute them in the chorus. The verses also seem very sarcastic. If this is the case, I kind of disagree with this song because I don't think it's our job to make this world like Heaven. This world will eventually be destroyed by God according to the Bible, and nothing we do can change that. I think our eyes should be set to Heaven, the REAL Heaven and not this cheap excuse for Heaven called earth. That said, I do think we should help others and try to make this world a better place, but not because we think we can make this world a heavenly utopia, but because it's the right thing to do. |
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| Timmy Curran – Comatose Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I actually disagree. There's phrases in the song that makes me think I cannot be about a relationship. "why do we justify THESE FOOLISH who are burning, all whats good and right" "This world wonders grieveing, but from the depths we hide" He's talking about society and how every thing is falling apart. There are people who are destroying the world as we know it and we are standing by letting them. The "we" he is talking about are the ones who know they should be doing something about it, but we don't because we've been lazy and careless. Society is falling apart because of our comatose. If you read it again with that mindset it makes sense. |
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| Fiction Family – Look for Me Baby Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This is obviously about the pharisees. He references a lot of verses from the Bible. I don't like the casual way he represents God here, asuming that God is the one speaking. "You can look for me baby?" | |
| Fiction Family – Closer Than You Think Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Antisapating Heaven doesn't make us literaly there, but it makes us mentaly and spiritual there. We are to long for Heaven and have a Heavenly mindset. | |
| Jon Foreman – Love Isn't Made Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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He's alone, without is wife/love, thinking about how he either lost her or almost lost her. And he realizes people don't "make love" to one another, but it's a transaction. It's a give and take. We have a finite amount of love to give, and if we give it all to someone who isn't for us, we won't have any left. It makes him panic to think about how close he was to loosing the one he had given all his love to. |
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| Jon Foreman – Over The River Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Nature is talking in language the whole world can understand. People of every tounge. Romans 8:22-23 For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. It's talking about labor pains comeing before the birth. The birth is Christ's return. Christ will return and make things right. This world is not our home. The river is the Jordan river. A picture of crossing into "the promise land." The finale, perminate home. |
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| Jon Foreman – Lord Save Me From Myself Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is about materialism. It's not against capitalism(which is a beautiful thing), but against the constant drive to get more. The cutthroats in big business who do whatever it takes to get more money. Those whose life is driven by obtaining more and more. The obsession with sex, shiny new toys, big city. Foreman's obviously bored with all this because it's hollow and temporal. Yet Foreman knows that he to falls prey to materialism, so he's pleading with God to save him from himself and focus his eyes on eternity rather than the temporal earth which should never be our home. |
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| Jon Foreman – Broken From The Start Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Well, this song is obviously about death. Spiritual death, and physical death. He says he can't tell the diference between life and death because as we are liveing, we are also dieing. And he mentions that when his time is up, he'll die. It's unavoidable. He mentions that everything will die on it's own. If we neglect certain roads, while traveling others, those roads will die. If we don't care for the rose, it will die sooner than later. Every choice between two options kills one, while saveing the other. We can only try to grasp and hold to the important things we know and have and hope to keep them alive as long as we can. People don't care about each other because they're souls are dead. They don't realize the importance of life until it's gone. They won't give respect until you die. You can try to hide your self deep inside, but you'll lose yourself eventualy. It will dry up and die. You WILL brake hearts whether you want to or not. Because you heart was broken and dead from the start. It's a sad life we must live and a sad world will live in. But this song makes me thankful that we can find true life in Jesus through His death on the cross. Eternal life. Spiritual life. Even painful truth has benefits. |
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| Jon Foreman – Baptize My Mind Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I kinda have a compleatly diferent view of this song. I'll start with the begining. Verse 1 He talks about how he could never reach solid ground and about how even though he was seeking, he wasn't looking for the right thing. He wasn't looking for "what he found." So he obviously found something right, he was just wasn't looking for the right thing at first. I think what he found was redemtion. Redemtion through the gospel, which is something we don't "look for" when we're lost because the Bible says the lost resist God. Verse 2 He admits that he is still dirty and wicked. Even after we are born again, we still strugle with the flesh. He is confessing this to God and asking God to make him absolutly pure. "Be my absolution." God may see us as righteous after we're born again, but we don't live in purity, so we must ask God to help us. Chorus I don't think this has anything to do with washing us clean because baptism is never picture as a washing in the Bible. What is baptism? It emersion in water that pictures death, burial, and reserection. Even though we are baptised once in life to show that we have died to the flesh and have been risen(born again) by God, he is asking God to baptise his mind. What does he mean? Easy, he wants God to slay his flesh and awaken his spirit to live as God wants him. He wants to die to his flesh, and live for God. "For these seeds to give birth to life, first they must die." If his small life is to ever be used, as a seed dies, he must die to his flesh, and God will use him to bare fruit and live ritouesly. I don't know if this is what Foreman meant, but this is how I interpret it. btw: Sorry for the bad spelling. |
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