One more tree will fall, how strong the growing vine.
Turn the earth to sand and still commit no crime.
How one thought will live provide the others die,
For I have riches more than these.
For I have riches more than these..... c'mon isnt it obvious?! He is talking about Yahweh! He can do whatever he wants and commit no crime!
That's absurd considering most of the band were Christian -- and particularly John Lodge who wrote this song.
That's absurd considering most of the band were Christian -- and particularly John Lodge who wrote this song.
Look again at the lyric and think: Who are felling trees and turning the earth to sand? Who is polluting and promoting a single ideology (hint: Capitalism, Fascism, Communism) to the detriment of all others?
Look again at the lyric and think: Who are felling trees and turning the earth to sand? Who is polluting and promoting a single ideology (hint: Capitalism, Fascism, Communism) to the detriment of all others?
Government and it's corporate allies.
Government and it's corporate allies.
The riches that the narrator has is love, which he elevates as the spiritual ideal of salvation.
The riches that the narrator has is love, which he elevates as the spiritual ideal of salvation.
@Feller The human condition and all its' messy, chaotic endeavours can be turned on a dime... his "riches" are his ability to think of, and thus create, a better way for existing. Is anyone listening? Not in this world, unless the "other" thoughts die. The messy, chaotic ones.
@Feller The human condition and all its' messy, chaotic endeavours can be turned on a dime... his "riches" are his ability to think of, and thus create, a better way for existing. Is anyone listening? Not in this world, unless the "other" thoughts die. The messy, chaotic ones.
One more tree will fall, how strong the growing vine. Turn the earth to sand and still commit no crime. How one thought will live provide the others die, For I have riches more than these. For I have riches more than these..... c'mon isnt it obvious?! He is talking about Yahweh! He can do whatever he wants and commit no crime!
That's absurd considering most of the band were Christian -- and particularly John Lodge who wrote this song.
That's absurd considering most of the band were Christian -- and particularly John Lodge who wrote this song.
Look again at the lyric and think: Who are felling trees and turning the earth to sand? Who is polluting and promoting a single ideology (hint: Capitalism, Fascism, Communism) to the detriment of all others?
Look again at the lyric and think: Who are felling trees and turning the earth to sand? Who is polluting and promoting a single ideology (hint: Capitalism, Fascism, Communism) to the detriment of all others?
Government and it's corporate allies.
Government and it's corporate allies.
The riches that the narrator has is love, which he elevates as the spiritual ideal of salvation.
The riches that the narrator has is love, which he elevates as the spiritual ideal of salvation.
@Feller The human condition and all its' messy, chaotic endeavours can be turned on a dime... his "riches" are his ability to think of, and thus create, a better way for existing. Is anyone listening? Not in this world, unless the "other" thoughts die. The messy, chaotic ones.
@Feller The human condition and all its' messy, chaotic endeavours can be turned on a dime... his "riches" are his ability to think of, and thus create, a better way for existing. Is anyone listening? Not in this world, unless the "other" thoughts die. The messy, chaotic ones.