This is a beautiful song to listen to. An excellent song of social comment: Abortion. Kearney, as a Christian would obviously feel stongly about an issue such as this. The song follows an unexpected pregnacy..not through rape, but two people who obviously liked eachother: "Because two came together so strong one night". Kearney is striving to give "a voice to the voiceless"..he is saying that chosing termination is a crime to the child (if you are interested at all in this subject, Poet, Bruce Dawe, has written several excellent poems on the issue). Kearney impliments a metaphorical situation, based on the well known Les Miserables. Here a lady has a child (Cossette..also mentioned in the lyrics) out of wedlock and is persecuted for it, yet receives salvation from her actions by her employer Jean Valjean (a man who also has a shady past). This song is a shout out to all those who have been blessed with the gift of a child, even though the context and circumstances in which it came to be were not ideal. He wants us to realise the importance of a life...and that death is not our decision to make...i suspect it can also be linked to the "god has a plan for you..plans to prosper you" verse in the bible.
This is a beautiful song to listen to. An excellent song of social comment: Abortion. Kearney, as a Christian would obviously feel stongly about an issue such as this. The song follows an unexpected pregnacy..not through rape, but two people who obviously liked eachother: "Because two came together so strong one night". Kearney is striving to give "a voice to the voiceless"..he is saying that chosing termination is a crime to the child (if you are interested at all in this subject, Poet, Bruce Dawe, has written several excellent poems on the issue). Kearney impliments a metaphorical situation, based on the well known Les Miserables. Here a lady has a child (Cossette..also mentioned in the lyrics) out of wedlock and is persecuted for it, yet receives salvation from her actions by her employer Jean Valjean (a man who also has a shady past). This song is a shout out to all those who have been blessed with the gift of a child, even though the context and circumstances in which it came to be were not ideal. He wants us to realise the importance of a life...and that death is not our decision to make...i suspect it can also be linked to the "god has a plan for you..plans to prosper you" verse in the bible.