Again, like some of the other songs on this album, I feel like it is dealing with God. Perhaps someone close to him found God and he is having trouble dealing with his own beliefs.
And for a real big stretch... Miami being a metaphor for sin? He knows he's been living a life of sin, and therefore doesn't want to be tortured for the things he did once, and that's his fear in accepting God in his life??
@geoffk....Huh? How could you get that this song is about God? I know everyone is entitled to their own opinions but when they are just dead wrong then you gotta call it what it is. Saying this song is about God is like saying Like A Virgin is about Mary the mother of Jesus. lol. This song is clearly about a couple getting ready to take the plunge into marriage and having questions of a past relationship or indiscretion surface. I think that the singer cheated on his future wife while in Miami and whatever happened there keeps coming up....
@geoffk....Huh? How could you get that this song is about God? I know everyone is entitled to their own opinions but when they are just dead wrong then you gotta call it what it is. Saying this song is about God is like saying Like A Virgin is about Mary the mother of Jesus. lol. This song is clearly about a couple getting ready to take the plunge into marriage and having questions of a past relationship or indiscretion surface. I think that the singer cheated on his future wife while in Miami and whatever happened there keeps coming up. Miami, every hour on the hour. And he tries to tell her "whoever I was then I can't ever be again". No matter what he says he can't overcome it. Goddamn me Unhand Me Miami. Do you see it yet?
She wants him to tell her everything about what happened in these lines. Does anyone every want to know all the details of someone cheating on them?
"The whole truth is nothing but a good excuse
So long as you don't torture me with my past
Let's be honest; a secret silenced is a secret safe"
With these lines the singer is saying that there are constant reminders that he can't get around them and overcome her fear of a repeat cheating episode.
"Reminders, they are not reluctant
So stop me if you've heard this one before
Sideways blinders,
I can't find a way (around a way) around.."
In the end when he speaks of "faith" he is speaking of the faith that one has in another person that they could never do wrong and that he has never found that in another person. Here in these final lines he basically sums up his fears of the pending marriage and breaks it off with the line "Truth be told, I'm never going to know.
"The faith you found I never felt (never felt)
The terror held in wedding bells
The comfort in there's no one else
The truth be told I'm never gonna know
The terror held in wedding bells
The comfort in there's no one else
The truth be told I'm never gonna know"
So in summary, this has absolutely nothing to do about God.
Again, like some of the other songs on this album, I feel like it is dealing with God. Perhaps someone close to him found God and he is having trouble dealing with his own beliefs.
And for a real big stretch... Miami being a metaphor for sin? He knows he's been living a life of sin, and therefore doesn't want to be tortured for the things he did once, and that's his fear in accepting God in his life??
I'm sure I'll be torn apart for that one.
@geoffk....Huh? How could you get that this song is about God? I know everyone is entitled to their own opinions but when they are just dead wrong then you gotta call it what it is. Saying this song is about God is like saying Like A Virgin is about Mary the mother of Jesus. lol. This song is clearly about a couple getting ready to take the plunge into marriage and having questions of a past relationship or indiscretion surface. I think that the singer cheated on his future wife while in Miami and whatever happened there keeps coming up....
@geoffk....Huh? How could you get that this song is about God? I know everyone is entitled to their own opinions but when they are just dead wrong then you gotta call it what it is. Saying this song is about God is like saying Like A Virgin is about Mary the mother of Jesus. lol. This song is clearly about a couple getting ready to take the plunge into marriage and having questions of a past relationship or indiscretion surface. I think that the singer cheated on his future wife while in Miami and whatever happened there keeps coming up. Miami, every hour on the hour. And he tries to tell her "whoever I was then I can't ever be again". No matter what he says he can't overcome it. Goddamn me Unhand Me Miami. Do you see it yet?
She wants him to tell her everything about what happened in these lines. Does anyone every want to know all the details of someone cheating on them?
"The whole truth is nothing but a good excuse So long as you don't torture me with my past Let's be honest; a secret silenced is a secret safe"
With these lines the singer is saying that there are constant reminders that he can't get around them and overcome her fear of a repeat cheating episode.
"Reminders, they are not reluctant So stop me if you've heard this one before Sideways blinders, I can't find a way (around a way) around.."
In the end when he speaks of "faith" he is speaking of the faith that one has in another person that they could never do wrong and that he has never found that in another person. Here in these final lines he basically sums up his fears of the pending marriage and breaks it off with the line "Truth be told, I'm never going to know.
"The faith you found I never felt (never felt) The terror held in wedding bells The comfort in there's no one else The truth be told I'm never gonna know The terror held in wedding bells The comfort in there's no one else The truth be told I'm never gonna know"
So in summary, this has absolutely nothing to do about God.