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"Death is just a door"
Blake said it first
It's just another room we enter
It's the threshold that hurts
Birth is just a chorus
And Death is just a Verse
In the great song of spring
That the mockingbrids sing
We come and we go
A-weeping and a-wailing
Our heads in the hands of the nurse
Put your head on my shoulder, baby
Tell me where it hurts
You say you lost your one and only
Could it get any worse?
I say, "death is just a door
You'll be Reunited on the other side"
It's alright
"Death is just a door
You'll be reunited bye and bye"
Blake said it first
It's just another room we enter
It's the threshold that hurts
And Death is just a Verse
In the great song of spring
That the mockingbrids sing
A-weeping and a-wailing
Our heads in the hands of the nurse
Put your head on my shoulder, baby
Tell me where it hurts
You say you lost your one and only
Could it get any worse?
You'll be Reunited on the other side"
It's alright
"Death is just a door
You'll be reunited bye and bye"
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This is a song that borrows heavily from the poet William Blake. Blake was a visionary poet of the 18th century, and considered one of the best literary minds to ever come out of Britain. This song is talking about Blake's basic philosophy/theology. That this life is temporary, and simply preparation for the next. Life is a cycle, like the song says. If we are a part of this life, then we are subject to this cycle. Like Blake and Ward believe, we'll always be apart of this eternity.
Although I don't believe in God or the afterlife, this is still such a beautiful song.
hah, that's exactly my thoughts. terribly atheist yet the songs serenity and acceptance of death is soothing. almost makes one want to believe in an afterlife....if it wasn't so ludicrous.
hah, that's exactly my thoughts. terribly atheist yet the songs serenity and acceptance of death is soothing. almost makes one want to believe in an afterlife....if it wasn't so ludicrous.
Great song, love the reference to William Blake.
Great song, love the reference to William Blake.
what a meaningless, hopeless existence this would be if there was no afterlife
what a meaningless, hopeless existence this would be if there was no afterlife