| Zero 7 – Crosses Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I think this song pretty much says it... it's about Christianity; namely Jesus. I don't see any other way around it. It was the first Zero 7 song that gave me the suspicious that they write sometimes about Christianity. Not necessarily a Christian band, but the theme definitely pops up more often than it to be a coincidence. We see in the first stanza of the song (Don't you know I'll be around to guide you // Through your weakest moments and leave them behind you) that they take the lines almost directly from Scripture. (Matt. 28:20 "I am with you always, to the end of the age). Jesus also notably forgave and exalted many sinners in his time (thus leaving their "weakest moments" behind them). The "crosses" stanza is pretty much self-explanatory. "The streets outside your window over flooded // People staring, they know you've been broken," is remnant of Jesus' own struggle as he carried his literal cross, but also indicative of the crosses we all carry in our daily lives, and the ridicule we receive for some of them. But ignore them. He will "cast some light," and it will "be alright." I could be completely off here--just projecting--but this song and "Your Place" (with all the children playing in the background--remember Jesus when he said "Let the children come to me, for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these...") make me think Zero 7 pays tribute to their religious beliefs every now and then in their music and lyrics. Either way, one of the more beautiful songs I've heard in my life. |
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