Spirits In The Material World Lyrics

Lyric discussion by ginadoll187 

Cover art for Spirits In The Material World lyrics by Police, The

This song is actually based on The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis. The spirits are in purgatory, which is "the material world" the way it really is. I reccommend the book, it's amazing.

@ginadoll187 The problem I have with all sorts of spiritual teachings is that only the victims of terrible crimes have to learn the "lesson" (if is there such a thing). The perpetrators of aggressions, rapists, child abusers, all of those continue on to live perfectly normal lives without a single trace of remorse, and nothing ever happen to them, their planes don't crash, their cars don't front hit a truck. The abused child, male or female, turns into a depressed and traumatized adult, a life sentence of perpetual misery and never being understood by no one, specially nowadays with this...