| Needtobreathe – Keep Your Eyes Open Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Well I'll start a thread then! I absolutely love their new album, but I will not waste further space about my feelings like so many posts do on here. I don't think the message of this song is too difficult to interpret; keep your eyes open because if you give in to whatever adversity you're facing, you may miss the beauty in front of you. Or perhaps part of the beauty is experiencing adversity. I know nobody takes pleasure in experiencing pain and suffering, but sometimes God can make the most miserable things beautiful. This is what I think when I read this verse: "Just past the circumstance The first light... a second chance No child could ever dance the way you do Oh, tear down the prison walls Don't start the curtain call Your chains will never fall until you do" In the story of Joseph from the Old Testament, Joseph was beaten, lied on, sold into slavery and betrayed by his own brothers, and imprisoned for not giving into seduction. When I'm struggling I try to remember how God used Joseph. In the end, he was made into a better man, forgiving his brothers and showing them love. Maybe we're not blessed with direct communication with God through many of our dreams, but when we look back in our lives and try to figure out where we are, how we got there, I cannot help but think someone has been dragging me on a rope, keeping my eyes open, telling me I'm strong, and never letting me fall apart. Perhaps Joseph may never have became Pharaoh had he not been enslaved, had he not fallen (hah literally--didn't he get thrown into a water hole?). But he persisted and kept faith. I think my favorite verse of the whole song is "Your chains will never fall until you do". It's much easier to always look at the past to see how we've grown from adverse conditions. I think this song, however, is set in the present from reading the verse, "[t]he weight is unbroken" (and many others). But that verse in particular confuses me a bit. Now I understand the gist: "Don't let the night become the day Don't take the darkness to the grave I know pain is just a place The will has been broken..." However, what do you think about them specifically? Maybe "[d]on't let the night become the day", pleads with us to not let tomorrow come aimlessly. Don't let a second go by if you have an unaddressed hatred in your heart. Do the verses, "I know pain is just a place [t]he will has been broken", form one sentence? Surely we can still experience pain with a strong and unbroken will. Maybe it's two separate thoughts. Pain is just a place that we're in, a stage in our life. We have an eternity in heaven to look forward to, in the promise and gift from Christ. Maybe the songwriter is just describing the present state in the following verses, "[t]he will has been broken" and "[t]he weight is unbroken". |
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| 30 Seconds to Mars – Kings And Queens Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I don't know, although I applaud any deduction of reasoning to find meaning in words. So, I like the afterlife thought, but I think it's a stretch. There's a parable somewhere in the Bible about an incoming army just trampling down a field toward a defending army. At the last moment a defending soldier holds up a baby, and the attackers immediately stop in their tracks. I may be remembering this completely wrong, but it dramatically shows a baby stopping a war. Children can remind us what it means to live, and they can also grow to make better attempts at living rightly. I can definitely see a parallel in this song to the hope of Jesus Christ found in Christ's birth. This song ends in hope. If you think about the first humans, Adam and Eve, they were the king and queen of earth. They were told to rule over everything that had the breath of life in it (although this does not mean we can selfishly dominate living creatures because we were the chosen ones). We were made to cultivate these precious gifts, because when you receive a gift you don't throw it in a moldy shed. The children echoing the chorus in the end lead me to believe that our kids are the new Kings and Queens of tomorrow. They can live without making the same mistakes older folks have made. We can learn about the Holocaust and the most atrocious events in history which degrade what it means to participate in a higher, moral world of enlightenment, or to be man. A bit of humanity dies when man loses respect for man. |
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| 30 Seconds to Mars – Kings And Queens Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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| 30 Seconds to Mars – Kings And Queens Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Hey I thought this analysis was great. I just have one more point to add on to the last part. "We are the Kings, We are the Queens" x2 I agree that they don't say "of promise" because we already he's referring to a new generation. I believe the fact that kids are singing the chorus which leads out to the end of the song emphasizes your point. It's the next generation learning from the mistakes of the past, the new Kings and Queens. |
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