| Red – Mystery of You Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Bodenhammer, in the most respectful way possible your first idea of it being about the devil or sin or addiction is wrong. This is why: in the beginning lines he says: "You always said we'd meet again You always said you'd be here" Jesus said that He would return again, He also said that He would always be with us. So the concept of the devil being with us is impossible because he can not be in two places at once. As far as sin goes just looking at those two lines have a possibility to be about it, but the rest of the song nullifies that idea. Addiction, well that is generally a sin; addiction to drugs, alcohol, women. However you had an interesting point when you say it touches a deep part of us. The only reason it would touch us deeply is if we hide our sin. If we do hide it, then yes is becomes very much personal. But we should bring our filth to the light and have it be revealed so that it may not have a stronghold! Psalm 32:3 says: "When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long" When we keep silent about our sins, usually privacy and silence has a strong link to pornography and masturbation, it destroys us. I know that when I did struggle with porn it ate at me physically I couldn't bear to look at myself in the mirror and life was awful. Then I confessed and had a sort of accountability/life group thing at my church and I just mentioned it one day and it eventually got better. |
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| Red – Mystery of You Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Plums sorry it most definitely not is about a girl, you can interpret it that way go ahead, but I'm sure Red would sing about more important things about this especially on this album. Anyway I absolutely like this song! It's so amazing because, I don't think, it's talking about God leaving us. I believe it's talking about the mystery of Him. How amazing is that? If we had a God whom we would know everything about why worship Him? If we could figure God out there honestly wouldn't be any point to listening to Him because we, essentially, would know everything God knows. "Somewhere I will find all the pieces torn apart You just left behind in your mystery" Look at it this way: why do we study Scripture? To know God better, and through that to have a more intimate and deep relationship with Christ. As for the "torn apart" bit I'm not entirely sure why the singer would say that. Maybe he's referring to the mystery as pieces, like a puzzle possibly, that are torn apart. I say this because the next line("You just left behind in your mystery") I always think of when Jesus ascended into Heaven. He left us behind, and so He gave us the Councillor (the Holy Spirit) to guide us, and the Holy Spirit is such a mystery. In this book called "The Shack" the author refers to the Holy Spirit as "working in mysterious ways". It's a great book, it is a work of fiction, but I believe some things in it can be linked to Scripture. It's an amazing read, and it is quick as well! |
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| Red – Death Of Me Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"You tear me down and then you pick me up You take it all but still its not enough You try to tell me you can heal me But I'm still bleeding and you will be the death of me" (My own personal opinion): When it says this I believe "you" is referring to those temporary joys in life, or sin. Because think about it those temporary joys(pornography, drugs, alcohol, etc.) do provide us with happiness and feel good chemicals sent to our brain. But in the end they tear us down. It's sort of a self fulfilling prophecy. Think about it like this: Say you're struggling with masturbation, and porn. You want to stop and please God, but every time you do it you feel like crap and you carry guilt and shame with you. Masturbation, 99% of the time, has emotional triggers. That just means stress, having a bad day, or those feelings of guilt and shame can cause you to masturbate to make you feel better. So when you do have those feelings it's easier to fall into that temptation hence the "You tear me down, then you pick me up" Satan wants to take everything from us, our salvation, faith, and happiness we receive from being Christians. But that's not enough for Satan he wants our lives to hurt and cause our brothers to stumble that's what I get from the "You take it all, but still it's not enough" "You try to tell me you can heal me" think about it Satan is a sly, mischievous thing. Remember how he tempted Jesus and he even quoted Scripture to make Jesus think that it's the right thing to do. Satan's lies will seem not that bad at first, and maybe even beneficial, but once he has you in his hands, you will reap the consequences and things will go to heck, explaining the "but I'm still bleeding" AS for the "you will be the death of me" it says in Romans 6:23: "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord." Sin WILL be the death of us, but thankfully for God's amazing Son we will live again and will be given a second chance. We are forgiven. |
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