This just struck me as I was listening to the song...
The lion could be temptation or something along those lines outside of the body, and the wolf could be your conscience or demons or however you want to look at it from inside your head.
The lion is outside always trying to find a way in, and when the wolf is loud and strong (in your head) it opens the door (you justify), satisfying the temptation.
Then you after having fun or however you put it with the temptation or lion, the wolf sticks around and reminds you how you messed up.
All in all I think the wolf is a double meaning for the devil and here is why. "Mocking man's best friend." Obviously its not talking about a dog, because that just doesn't make sense in this song. Man's best friend is Jesus, our savior, redeemer, ect. The devil tries to copy God at times, and this is what Dustin could've meant by mocking.
This just struck me as I was listening to the song...
The lion could be temptation or something along those lines outside of the body, and the wolf could be your conscience or demons or however you want to look at it from inside your head.
The lion is outside always trying to find a way in, and when the wolf is loud and strong (in your head) it opens the door (you justify), satisfying the temptation.
Then you after having fun or however you put it with the temptation or lion, the wolf sticks around and reminds you how you messed up.
All in all I think the wolf is a double meaning for the devil and here is why. "Mocking man's best friend." Obviously its not talking about a dog, because that just doesn't make sense in this song. Man's best friend is Jesus, our savior, redeemer, ect. The devil tries to copy God at times, and this is what Dustin could've meant by mocking.
Just a possibility.
Totally agree. What a disarmingly simple, and yet devastatingly deep song!
Totally agree. What a disarmingly simple, and yet devastatingly deep song!
This is why I love Thrice.
This is why I love Thrice.
Gen 8:21 "...Never again will I curse the ground because of man, EVEN THOUGH EVERY INCLINATION OF HIS HEART IS EVIL FROM CHILDHOOD, and never..."
Gen 8:21 "...Never again will I curse the ground because of man, EVEN THOUGH EVERY INCLINATION OF HIS HEART IS EVIL FROM CHILDHOOD, and never..."
I understand what you mean but i'd think of the wolf more as our heart/sinful desires but also the devils temptations?
I understand what you mean but i'd think of the wolf more as our heart/sinful desires but also the devils temptations?