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| Gillian Welch – Time (The Revelator) Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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@[bluedogbeads:36527] excellent information thank you. The comparison with the express train and the mule is in my view important here. The express train to fame and fortune was caught by the well supported country artist while they left her a arduous journey without recognition on a mule. Of course that conjures up the image of Mary on the mule to bethlehem also without receiving hospitality and forced to sleep in a stable.
The comparison can be drawn out further since Mary's gift was truthful pure and profound, so is Welch's gift to the world. But neither gifts are acknowledged by the people they were mixing with. But time will be the revelator |
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| Gillian Welch – Time (The Revelator) Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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Thank you for your insightful contribution. I've got some thoughts on the KT and the For me Eric the contradiction between the KT express train and the mule is likely the important thing. These bluegrass/Country artists caught the express train to fame and fortune while they left her struggling to find recognition: the mule to ride. Slow and tedious without much support or acknowledgement. But the image also refers to Mary who rode the mule to Bethlehem while pregnant. She was also considered unwelcome and refused hospitality and ended up sleeping in a stable. Yet her gift was pure, truthful and profound. A valid comparison. Welch’s gift is pure truthful and profound too and she knows she is truthful but time will eventually show the world if she is truthful or a traitor. Just like time will tell if the world will consider Mary’s gift the Truth or a traitor. And the way it is going in the world now it looks like Mary’s gift is getting trod upon and not understood to an ever increasing degree. As far as the comparison with Welch goes, her enormous talents found ample acknowledgements in the world but still maybe not with the country folk she started her journey out with. I don't know |
submissions
| Gillian Welch – Time (The Revelator) Lyrics
| 4 years ago
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Thank you for your insightful contribution. I've got some thoughts on the KT and the For me Eric the contradiction between the KT express train and the mule is likely the important thing. These bluegrass/Country artists caught the express train to fame and fortune while they left her struggling to find recognition: the mule to ride. Slow and tedious without much support or acknowledgement. But the image also refers to Mary who rode the mule to Bethlehem while pregnant. She was also considered unwelcome and refused hospitality and ended up sleeping in a stable. Yet her gift was pure, truthful and profound. A valid comparison. Welch’s gift is pure truthful and profound too and she knows she is truthful but time will eventually show the world if she is truthful or a traitor. Just like time will tell if the world will consider Mary’s gift the Truth or a traitor. And the way it is going in the world now it looks like Mary’s gift is getting trod upon and not understood to an ever increasing degree. As far as the comparison with Welch goes, her enormous talents found ample acknowledgements in the world but still maybe not with the country folk she started her journey out with. I don't know |
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