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| Jars of Clay – Fall Asleep Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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In the music video, the "main character" is in a wedding dress in a bath. A wedding dress in a wedding means being "dressed in white" at the end, and becoming "without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless." (Ephesians 5:27). Notice that we are dressed in white by God to become without stain, but a bath is our man-made way of being without stain.
I may be way off base, but it seems to be about idolatry. It says "We wandered off like children, in the woods" away from God. The woods seem to symbolize a life alone away from God that we have chosen. But even before the end of the verse our "dreams collected planes and cars and cities". This civilization seems to symbolize a life with God. Even as we are in the mist of the thrill of the lostness of the forest, we are still longing for the city lights. Finally, when we meet God under city lights, we try to make every moment last, because we know that we are just going to wander off into the forest again. |
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| Jars of Clay – Work Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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And we don't ever have to be alone! Because in God we find our true identity, that to Him, we are more precious than all the riches in the world |
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| Jars of Clay – Work Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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The way I interpret it, "I have no fear of drowning, its the breathing that's taking all this work" Jars is pointing out how illogical it is that we do not let the Holy Spirit completely "drown" our lives (kinda like living water at the woman at the well). We are saying we aren't afraid of God taking over our lives, but we are still fighting it, and its taking all this work. Thus, we do not have complete faith in God, which is said when we ask God "do you know what I mean when I say I don't wanna be alone?" thinking that if we really do follow God, we will be alone. |
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