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| Cold War Kids – Hang Me Up to Dry Lyrics
| 12 years ago
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This song is far from an innuendo. I don't think you can interpret this song apart from the narrative of the rest of the album. The album centers around robbers and cowards making confessions to the listener, or hanging up their dirty laundry. In their youth the characters in this album all enjoyed sinning (splashing around in the muck and mire). Eventually they will die carrying the marks of their sins (fell asleep with stains/ caked deep in the knees). Willet is making a remark on how deep man's sin problem runs. But now the laundry faces judgement day, (Hang me up to dry/ you rung me out too many times). No matter how many times the clothes were rung out they could not be cleaned by the sinner. But amazingly they were "pearly like the whites of your eyes." This was due to nothing but the free grace of God who will remove the scarlet stain of sin and give us new clothes as white as snow if only we will believe in the sacrificial work of Jesus Christ who died on the cross to save us from our sins. The closing lines refer to the characters in the album who are all so similar in their depravity (all mixed up in the wash/ hot water bleeding our colors). We are all like each sinner in this album. The only thing that saves us is faith in Christ to be our righteousness for us. This interpretation fits with the "secret track" "Sermons vs. The Gospel." Only grace can save you from yourself. This song is a beautiful and very cryptic Gospel track. |
submissions
| Cold War Kids – Hang Me Up to Dry Lyrics
| 12 years ago
|
|
I don't think you can interpret this song apart from the narrative of the rest of the album. The album centers around robbers and cowards making confessions to the listener, or hanging up their dirty laundry. In their youth the characters in this album all enjoyed sinning (splashing around in the muck and mire). Eventually they will die carrying the marks of their sins (fell asleep with stains/ caked deep in the knees). Willet is making a remark on how deep man's sin problem runs. But now the laundry faces judgement day, (Hang me up to dry/ you rung me out too many times). No matter how many times the clothes were rung out they could not be cleaned by the sinner. But amazingly they were "pearly like the whites of your eyes." This was due to nothing but the free grace of God who will remove the scarlet stain of sin and give us new clothes as white as snow if only we will believe in the sacrificial work of Jesus Christ who died on the cross to save us from our sins. The closing lines refer to the characters in the album who are all so similar in their depravity (all mixed up in the wash/ hot water bleeding our colors). We are all like each sinner in this album. The only thing that saves us is faith in Christ to be our righteousness for us. This interpretation fits with the "secret track" "Sermons vs. The Gospel." Only grace can save you from yourself. This song is a beautiful and very cryptic Gospel track. |
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