| Sufjan Stevens – The Seer's Tower Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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if he's going with the biblical theme, "my mother, she betrayed us" could be referring to the story of adam and eve, when eve tempted adam to eat the forbidden fruit and created original sin for the rest of humanity. "my father loves and bathed us" could be referring to God himself, because even though we have original sin, God still loves us and the "bathed" could be referring to baptism. the part about "With his sword, with his robe, He comes dividing man from brothers" could very well be talking about the second coming when Jesus will make His final judgments... separating all sinners from the holy. the whole tower thing could just mean that when you step back to a view where you can see everything, everything becomes clearer. God's whole plan. it just becomes clearer until you realize that eventually one day he will come whether you're ready or not. and that could be what sufjan is realizing in the last two lines, or maybe he just feels alone. or that he doesn't have as close of a relationship with God as he would like. ^that's my take on the song from a religious point of view. with all the allusions to Emmanuel, "the fire" and "the end" i dont know what else it could be... but that's just me. |
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