| D:Ream – Things Can Only Get Better Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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"You can walk my path You can wear my shoes Learn to talk like me and be an angel too But maybe you ain't never gonna feel this way You ain't never gonna know me, but I know you I'm singing it now" I see this as Christ and the Christian. The relationship each has. The love that Jesus has for the individual, asking him/her to follow, yet allowing that person the free will to choose. Jesus knows that person and loves him//her despite the decision they make in the end. If we choose to walk with Him we can become more like Him. "Things can only get better Can only get better if we see it through That means me and I mean you too" If we follow Him, things can only get better. and He will not leave us on our own but always be with us. "So teach me now that things can only get better They can only get, they only get, take it on from here You know I know that things can only get better" Then this is our response. We love Him, we want to be like Him but many times we don't know how. We need Him to "take it on from here" and guide and teach us. "I, sometimes I lose myself in me I lose track of time And I can't see the wood for the trees You set them alight Burning bridges as you go I'm too weak to fight you I've got my personal hell to deal with, then you say" Even as followers and friends of Jesus we struggle within ourselves. We get consumed with self and loose our inner peace and joy that we first had when we were young Christians. But Jesus doesn't give up. He comes and rescues us. But sometimes we still resist even though we are so weak from the inner battles we fight. We reject Him, but still he says: "Walk my path Wear my shoes Talk like that" And our response is: "I'll be an angel then Things can only get better Can only get better, now I found you Things can only get better They can only get better Now I found you And you and you" I love this part. It is so true of the Christian life if we are walking close to Jesus. The disease is the disease of sin. And the prejudice and greed is within. Christ in His soft and gentle way shows us that the problems in the world start with the individual. The "cause" is indwelling sin, Jesus is the cure. "You've shown me prejudice and greed And you've shown me how I must learn to deal with this disease I look at things now in a different light than I did before And I've found the cause And I think you can be my cure" So we say to Jesus, knowing that with Him things will only get better: "So teach me to Walk your path Wear your shoes Talk like that I'll be an angel and things can only get better Things can only get, can only get Things can only get, can only get Things can only get, can only get Things can only get, can only get" |
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| The Shamen – Destination Eschaton Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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Alpha and Omega are mostly known as biblical terms relating to the Trinity or God. God being the first and the last, the beginning and the end , the alpha and the omega. Alpha and omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet. It's like saying in English "we have everything, from A to Z." An Eschaton is an "age" or a "time". In Biblical theology there is the study of Eschatology or "end-times". This is the study of the return of the Christ, the rise of the Antichrist, Armageddon, the book of Revelation (where the Alpha and Omega are mentioned by the way) and so on. Here is a quote from Wikipedia: "The eschaton is a time period described in eschatological writings and doomsday scenarios." One line of the song says "So imminentised by Eschaton". Biblical scholars speak of the imminent return of Christ, which means it could happen at any moment. Whether this is referring to that or to the end of one's own life I'm not sure. The idea of the Christian as a pilgrim is also found in the Biblical record of 1st Peter for example. "Oh that which thou art" The language here is reminiscent of the most famous and well known Bible in English The King James Version of 1611 ad. The says at one point "In the name of Adam Kadmon you move on". Wikipedia explains that "Adam Kadmon is a phrase in the religious writings of Kabbalah meaning "original man"." Kaballah is a Jewish form of mysticism made popular by Madonna. After that it says "Unto Ragnarock". Again Wikipedia illuminates "In Norse mythology, Ragnarök is a series of future events, including a great battle foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major figures (including the gods Odin, Thor, Týr, Freyr, Heimdallr, and Loki), the occurrence of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water. Afterward, the world will resurface anew and fertile, the surviving and returning gods will meet, and the world will be repopulated by two human survivors. Ragnarök is an important event in the Norse canon, and has been the subject of scholarly discourse and theory." This ties in the Biblical idea of the "Last Days" or the "Eschaton". And once more Wikipedia shows us the light in regard to "Nemeton": "A nemeton was a sacred space of ancient Celtic religion." As the other commentator mentioned (and I take their word for it), it contains elements from Tibetan book of the Dead. The song writer has obviously been influenced by a number of sources including but not limited to Buddhism Judaism, Paganism and Christianity. This song then is promoting Western New Age religion, which emphasizes the idea of the god within, the unity of all religions and pagan practices and rituals among other things. |
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