Remember, we should consider where the lines are coming from. Roger Waters is, of course, an atheist.
This song is, in my opinion, about how the religious right tends to call any statistically unlikely (or even not so unlikely an) event a "miracle", but then will stop short of applying the same term to a negative event.
Waters' (justified) feelings regarding A. L. Webber aside, consider the line "Then the piano lid comes down and breaks his fucking fingers... It's a miracle".
I always want to ask christians who say "It's a miracle that __ survived that accident" if it is then also a miracle that ____ did not.
Remember, we should consider where the lines are coming from. Roger Waters is, of course, an atheist.
This song is, in my opinion, about how the religious right tends to call any statistically unlikely (or even not so unlikely an) event a "miracle", but then will stop short of applying the same term to a negative event.
Waters' (justified) feelings regarding A. L. Webber aside, consider the line "Then the piano lid comes down and breaks his fucking fingers... It's a miracle".
I always want to ask christians who say "It's a miracle that __ survived that accident" if it is then also a miracle that ____ did not.