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| Joan Osborne – Pensacola Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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(Oops. I randomly stumbled on the same thread and it didn't display my previous comment. Apparently we are having the same conversation from year ago. Don't mind me. I'm an internet idiot!) |
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| Joan Osborne – Pensacola Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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@[ShineYouDiamond:3588] Okay, I know I'm responding to an 8 year old post, but I wouldn't say the father has chosen a life for spiritual fulfilment. It doesn't sound like he has 'chosen' poverty, but that through some failings, poor planning or just bad luck he is in poverty. I don't see that as having been a choice with religious fulfilment being the other option. |
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| Joan Osborne – Pensacola Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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I'm not sure I'd read a life choice of poverty for spiritual fulfilment. He's poor, and he's religious, but everything else in the song suggests his poverty isn't a choice. (I know I'm responding to a comment that is years old, but I had the song stuck in my head today.)
He sounds much more like he is choosing religion because it's his last refuge. If he was the sort who was searching for spiritual fulfilment, wouldn't he, hopefully, also be the sort of person who would have been in touch with his daughter all these years? |
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