okay....so i didn't really read any of these comments, so i might just be repeating someone. but on the first page, some "toast" guy says that it's about a car accident (referencing the part about "jesus freaks out in the street handing tickets out for god). i think that part is a complete satire of religion/christianity in general. it's people buying god, selling god...i don't think that god is a significant part of this song. i think he's just making the point that people are radically involved in what they believe. i guess i just hear this song and don't take any of it literally. i mean...the "tiny dancer" probably isn't really a dancer. it's just this girl....he loves her. maybe not even loves her. he just knows he needs to be near her for now. she has grace. she has beauty. this is my second favorite song of all time. i think it captures love. maybe not love when it is most pure, but definitely when it is the most free. life without an agenda.
this song also has has a special meaning with me because my boyfriend is a pianist and when i hear this song, i am reminded of him by the line, "piano man, he makes a stand in the auditorium." he will change the world one day. i know it.
@meena_adore The Jesus freaks line is about something you would actually see in LA around the early 1970's. The hippie times of the 1960's were ending and some young people were searching for something a bit more meaningful than sex drugs and rock and roll. The hippies had sometimes called themselves freaks, so Jesus freaks were those who had been "saved", turned to religion. Walking along LA streets you would sometimes be approached by a young person handing out paper tickets that were the same size as a show or concert ticket, but advertised a religious meeting...
@meena_adore The Jesus freaks line is about something you would actually see in LA around the early 1970's. The hippie times of the 1960's were ending and some young people were searching for something a bit more meaningful than sex drugs and rock and roll. The hippies had sometimes called themselves freaks, so Jesus freaks were those who had been "saved", turned to religion. Walking along LA streets you would sometimes be approached by a young person handing out paper tickets that were the same size as a show or concert ticket, but advertised a religious meeting for the purpose of recruiting new believers.
okay....so i didn't really read any of these comments, so i might just be repeating someone. but on the first page, some "toast" guy says that it's about a car accident (referencing the part about "jesus freaks out in the street handing tickets out for god). i think that part is a complete satire of religion/christianity in general. it's people buying god, selling god...i don't think that god is a significant part of this song. i think he's just making the point that people are radically involved in what they believe. i guess i just hear this song and don't take any of it literally. i mean...the "tiny dancer" probably isn't really a dancer. it's just this girl....he loves her. maybe not even loves her. he just knows he needs to be near her for now. she has grace. she has beauty. this is my second favorite song of all time. i think it captures love. maybe not love when it is most pure, but definitely when it is the most free. life without an agenda.
this song also has has a special meaning with me because my boyfriend is a pianist and when i hear this song, i am reminded of him by the line, "piano man, he makes a stand in the auditorium." he will change the world one day. i know it.
@meena_adore The Jesus freaks line is about something you would actually see in LA around the early 1970's. The hippie times of the 1960's were ending and some young people were searching for something a bit more meaningful than sex drugs and rock and roll. The hippies had sometimes called themselves freaks, so Jesus freaks were those who had been "saved", turned to religion. Walking along LA streets you would sometimes be approached by a young person handing out paper tickets that were the same size as a show or concert ticket, but advertised a religious meeting...
@meena_adore The Jesus freaks line is about something you would actually see in LA around the early 1970's. The hippie times of the 1960's were ending and some young people were searching for something a bit more meaningful than sex drugs and rock and roll. The hippies had sometimes called themselves freaks, so Jesus freaks were those who had been "saved", turned to religion. Walking along LA streets you would sometimes be approached by a young person handing out paper tickets that were the same size as a show or concert ticket, but advertised a religious meeting for the purpose of recruiting new believers.