This is one of those all time great songs that I can just listen to again and again and never tire of it. I've probably heard it hundreds of times over the years. I suppose it's meaning if fairly transparent: a man is stood up for an important date, or, possibly, his beloved has backed out on their wedding plans, and he is suicidally depressed. He doubts God's mercy or even existence, not understanding why he is now alone. He feels abandoned by God, not recognizing that he has already (probably) abandoned God by making an idol of his fiance.
My favorite verse:
It seems to me that there are more hearts
Broken in the world that can't be mended
Left unattended
What do we do? What do we do?
Indeed. What DO we do? How about recognize we're all in this together, have compassion for ourselves and be kind and loving to everyone? How about loving All and Everyone from the 4th Chakra of universal compassion, rather than staying in the lower chakras where "love" is attachment and full of egoic agendas that inevitably lead to suffering?
And then he talks about how his mother mourned his father's passing, the only man she ever loved. I see that this song is about trying to justify God's ways, trying to grok the inexplicability of our su ffering. Of course there is no bumper sticker answer. But the saints and sages of every religion have provided the answer, for those who want to know.
Yes, "Love's sweet idolatry," it is called, and Juliet says "the god of my idolatry." And what if He makes simple humans who cannot understand your fourth chakra, and we are subject to this? "Why have You forsaken me," He said, and only John was there to hear, and his bride stood 'im up! We forget the 65 years is a gift, and the glass is half full, but that is despair, and why this is a great song of despair. More than his own sorrow, the aloneness of his mother is what gets him, The saints live in...
Yes, "Love's sweet idolatry," it is called, and Juliet says "the god of my idolatry." And what if He makes simple humans who cannot understand your fourth chakra, and we are subject to this? "Why have You forsaken me," He said, and only John was there to hear, and his bride stood 'im up! We forget the 65 years is a gift, and the glass is half full, but that is despair, and why this is a great song of despair. More than his own sorrow, the aloneness of his mother is what gets him, The saints live in luxury by contrast, having a place to which to ascend. The lover is ascending, but caught in the middle or at the beginning. More hearts broken in the world than can (italics) be mended, but we can share this question and this suffering.
This is one of those all time great songs that I can just listen to again and again and never tire of it. I've probably heard it hundreds of times over the years. I suppose it's meaning if fairly transparent: a man is stood up for an important date, or, possibly, his beloved has backed out on their wedding plans, and he is suicidally depressed. He doubts God's mercy or even existence, not understanding why he is now alone. He feels abandoned by God, not recognizing that he has already (probably) abandoned God by making an idol of his fiance.
My favorite verse:
It seems to me that there are more hearts Broken in the world that can't be mended Left unattended What do we do? What do we do?
Indeed. What DO we do? How about recognize we're all in this together, have compassion for ourselves and be kind and loving to everyone? How about loving All and Everyone from the 4th Chakra of universal compassion, rather than staying in the lower chakras where "love" is attachment and full of egoic agendas that inevitably lead to suffering?
And then he talks about how his mother mourned his father's passing, the only man she ever loved. I see that this song is about trying to justify God's ways, trying to grok the inexplicability of our su ffering. Of course there is no bumper sticker answer. But the saints and sages of every religion have provided the answer, for those who want to know.
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Yes, "Love's sweet idolatry," it is called, and Juliet says "the god of my idolatry." And what if He makes simple humans who cannot understand your fourth chakra, and we are subject to this? "Why have You forsaken me," He said, and only John was there to hear, and his bride stood 'im up! We forget the 65 years is a gift, and the glass is half full, but that is despair, and why this is a great song of despair. More than his own sorrow, the aloneness of his mother is what gets him, The saints live in...
Yes, "Love's sweet idolatry," it is called, and Juliet says "the god of my idolatry." And what if He makes simple humans who cannot understand your fourth chakra, and we are subject to this? "Why have You forsaken me," He said, and only John was there to hear, and his bride stood 'im up! We forget the 65 years is a gift, and the glass is half full, but that is despair, and why this is a great song of despair. More than his own sorrow, the aloneness of his mother is what gets him, The saints live in luxury by contrast, having a place to which to ascend. The lover is ascending, but caught in the middle or at the beginning. More hearts broken in the world than can (italics) be mended, but we can share this question and this suffering.