| Sufjan Stevens – Abraham Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Denniac, too many Christians place too much emphasis on that distinction. can't all of the Law and the Prophets be summarized in "love God and love your neighbor?" can't all of the Gospel be boiled down to "Jesus died and rose again"? the rest is commentary. while these traditions may seem to contradict what is written in Scripture, they're pretty consistent with the metanarrative theme of God's continual relationship first with the Hebrew people and then with the followers of Christ. the thought that Adam, the man who went to a tree (the tree of the knowledge of good and evil) and brought death to the world, might be buried underneath the very spot where Jesus, the man who went to a tree (the cross, or whatever it was upon which He was crucified) and brought life to the world, is perfectly consistent with that theme. further, the thought that the cross (or whatever) might have been built with wood from the Tree of Life, undoing the work of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, is also perfectly consistent. that is not to say either tradition is true. but you dismissed them both far too quickly. |
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| Copeland – Kite Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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i've always pictured this song as a hauntingly beautiful, poetic expression of why he loves her. he describes what he was like before he met her ("i hid myself from failure and fear") and how he was almost touching his potential but wasn't quite getting there ("floating and fighting like a kite on a string"). falling in love with her changed everything, and set him free to be what he was meant to be. this may be reading too much into it, but i get the sense that "when they say that i'm just a terrible kite" means that he's challenging the status quo, unafraid to fly free like a bird when most of the people in this world are kites, tethered down by strings. of course he's a terrible kite, because he isn't a kite at all---anymore. falling for this girl has completely transformed him into something wonderful and revolutionary. "you cut through my tether and changed everything" it's incredibly poetic, it really is. |
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| Cloud Cult – May Your Hearts Stay Strong Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| one of the best depictions of true love (NOT just romantic, but holistic and lasting) i've ever heard. | |
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