It's A Miracle Lyrics
begin sarcasm Boy! Isn't it great how far companies have gone in pushing their products upon us everywhere? end sarcasm Roger is bringing up two kinds of miracles here. False miracles, those are the miracles of commercializing and organized religion, and true miracles, people being able to achieve something inspite of everything against them. The commercializing parts are obvious. They had sex in Pennsylvania, I believe that alludes to The Scarlet Letter, A Brazilian grew a tree is about the destruction of the rain forests for commerical gain and those who attempt to rebuild what has been destroyed by the corporations, and a doctor in Manhattan is probably about a doctor in Hell's Kitchen saving a dying man for free despite how ridiculous and expensive the health care system has become today. The Garden of Gethsemene is a religous undertone, The Lord said Peter I can see your house from here is probably about the religious fundamentalists that care more about getting into heaven than anything else so they basically believe that they have some kind of house reserved for them up there in heaven. The farmer in Ohio is about the plight of farmers. Roger just hates Lloyd-Webber. So all in all, the song is about real miracles versus the false miracles of commercial civilization and religious miracles.
Wouldn't the line "Peter, I can see your house from up here?" be a jab at Jesus up high on the cross?
Also I love the Lloyd-Webber line. It's so random and mean. I love it.
Right. "The Lord said Peter I can see your house from here" is the punchline of a joke in which the apostle Peter gets horribly maimed by Roman soldiers while trying to get close enough to Jesus on the cross to hear his final words.
If you ever get to read this Roger, please bear in mind (with all due respect) that The Lord went to that cross willingly in order to deal with all the terrible stuff that you have been singing about these last thirty-odd years, and to finally reconcile us to God and to each other. Thanks.
from what i've heard till now i think Roger is atheist. i'm too. There is no god, people just want smthng to believe to. There are thousands of gods. Are all real? Or just yours? If your answer is yes, then your selfish, although "Jesus" taught not to be selfish.
from what i've heard till now i think Roger is atheist. i'm too. There is no god, people just want smthng to believe to. There are thousands of gods. Are all real? Or just yours? If your answer is yes, then your selfish, although "Jesus" taught not to be selfish.
the Lloyd-Webber line is not random. Roger spoke of it in an interview how he's never been a fan of POTO but once listened to it when staying with some American family.
He says that alot of Phantom music has been plagirized from his Meddle album, with Echoes being his main influence.
Great song, though.
^interesting^ now you mention it, the first bit of music from POTO that popped into my mind does remind me a lot of a riff from Echoes..
I need help Floyd fans. Who's the "babe" and what was the "it" that she called miraculous. The Philadelphia line still doesn't make sense to me. I read a Wikipedia synopsis on The Scarlet Letter and I saw nothing about Philadelphia, so that can't be it. The biblical stuff is a little obscure also.
What's great about Roger Waters though, is that if you didn't understand a lick of English, you would still be able pick up on the cynicism and sarcasm through the tone of his voice. That's good stuff.
"Sex in Pennsylvania" being a miracle is a sarcastic reference to Pennsylvania being founded by Quakers who practiced celibacy.
"Sex in Pennsylvania" being a miracle is a sarcastic reference to Pennsylvania being founded by Quakers who practiced celibacy.
well said ShineYouDiamond.
Remember, we should consider where the lines are coming from. Roger Waters is, of course, an atheist.
This song is, in my opinion, about how the religious right tends to call any statistically unlikely (or even not so unlikely an) event a "miracle", but then will stop short of applying the same term to a negative event.
Waters' (justified) feelings regarding A. L. Webber aside, consider the line "Then the piano lid comes down and breaks his fucking fingers... It's a miracle".
I always want to ask christians who say "It's a miracle that __ survived that accident" if it is then also a miracle that ____ did not.
The L.Webber reference must relate to the court case RW bought against LW for using the atom heart mother thme in Phantom. Roger lost that case (my understanding is that the judge said it was the same riff and perhaps LW had heard it subconsciously in the past but he did not actively steal it). BTW if you listen to it it is absolutely identical. I wonder if Roger putting those lines in was a challenge to L>W to sue him in retunr?
To me it's just about how we all get whatever we work for. Our own little "miracles" we've earned, and it's up to us if they mean something and what are they... Every big thing and every trifle. Every punishment and award. And "with our hands over our ears", we still prefer to believe something/someone else is responsible.