| New Order – True Faith Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| @[fieroavian:47836] he may have written it with this idea, but by changing the line to make it a big hit (abstraction), Bernie opened it up to another range of interpretations which is what the art of songwriting and poetry is and why this site exists. There’s not one interpretation because once it’s written, the song takes on a life of its own independent of the original songwriter and recording artist: that said; I hear this song covered by a film artist where the title true faith was sung — bravely became the meaning of the song for me. True Faith in what people might understand as the transcendence of empathy / sympathy on the Christmas Spirit - a faith in the greater good of humanity.. that’s what I was raised with as the child of evangelical minister parents and that simultaneously on some level I understood as utterly blasphemed against by all the fear and anguish that religion instilled us “soldiers” in the Salvation Army as hell bound sinners unless we sold out our souls to that lesser Empire inherited from the brutally murderous sociopath Henry the 8th & all the so-called Christian colonialist crusaders like the Spanish Inquisition prior. That’s how I lost my childhood replaced by fear — of the hellfire and brimstone that keeps any and all and each of us from effectively solving the very real fires set to consume us from the self-fulfilling prophecy of climate denialism for temporary pleasures and gains… one day at a time — the morning sun - just keep it all in perspective - survive to thrive another day or lifetime — because mutually assured destruction was the path the powers that be put us on and there’s the paradox of the Cold War creating global warming, but there you have it — try to preserve true faith in the greater good of humanity in the face of all the above inherited early childhood sermons and imprints ! | |
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