| Joe Pug – Hymn #101 Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I will not pretend to know what Joe really means, but this song appears to be much more about the spiritual versus the material. "the wishlist of my father" - because of the "shipwrecks," I tend to think of this more as the things we've historically been told to desire; to work for. He's then come to see how those things we wish for come to disaster. And then, he is willing to stand in front of those who still propound that this is the correct set of values (material via the "overdressed crowd") and wish for what is truly important. As he does this, he's seeing how the material is failing - the "sinking of the ship." Then, as the outsider ("forests past the village") he states that he wants to do more than "just get by." He's here to test the timbre of his heart. To see how true/strong/worthy his spiritual fiber is. |
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