I was very impressed with the depth of the lyrics in this album.
I believe the first stanza is about the universal love that everyone shares. It makes a reference to how love essentially originates from God.
"You're still sending cells to their rightful places" A reference to Gods involvement in biology. "One more coming out cursed." This is a reference to a human birth. The narrator is amazed at how God will let more humans live on earth considering how potentially evil we are.
Third stanza: A request for redemption to be the human's purpose.
Fourth stanza: "Our world is grey" Man is both evil and good. While God demands everything in black and white. We continue to live as though there are gray areas of neither good, nor bad. "We're just swaying from side to side." We cannot live perfectly.
Fifth Stanza: This is a reference to temptation. How we are deceived into believing that certain sins are OK. More gray essentially. Also refers to the serpent in the garden of Eden. The Garden had two trees, the tree of the knowledge of GOOD and EVIL and the tree of life. Obviously we are sticking to the theme of right and wrong.
So basically, this whole song is a reference to how God provides our sense of what is right and our love which we share with each other. We need to understand that God hates evil and loves good. But he still loves his creatures. Kinda goes back to the old saying "Love the sinner, hate the sin". If God didn't love everything he created, then the moment we sinned we would be destroyed. Pretty good proof that God loves us.
There's a lot more to this song. I only grazed over it.
<Recommended reading: "Mere Christianity" by C.S.Lewis>
God does not see in black and white. He is more intricate and wonderful than right or wrong. The artist says the world is grey signifying how we see God in a dualistic nature. We categorize into right and wrong and make up the grey, but that is just our thinking as humans.
God does not see in black and white. He is more intricate and wonderful than right or wrong. The artist says the world is grey signifying how we see God in a dualistic nature. We categorize into right and wrong and make up the grey, but that is just our thinking as humans.
I was very impressed with the depth of the lyrics in this album.
I believe the first stanza is about the universal love that everyone shares. It makes a reference to how love essentially originates from God.
"You're still sending cells to their rightful places" A reference to Gods involvement in biology. "One more coming out cursed." This is a reference to a human birth. The narrator is amazed at how God will let more humans live on earth considering how potentially evil we are.
Third stanza: A request for redemption to be the human's purpose.
Fourth stanza: "Our world is grey" Man is both evil and good. While God demands everything in black and white. We continue to live as though there are gray areas of neither good, nor bad. "We're just swaying from side to side." We cannot live perfectly.
Fifth Stanza: This is a reference to temptation. How we are deceived into believing that certain sins are OK. More gray essentially. Also refers to the serpent in the garden of Eden. The Garden had two trees, the tree of the knowledge of GOOD and EVIL and the tree of life. Obviously we are sticking to the theme of right and wrong.
So basically, this whole song is a reference to how God provides our sense of what is right and our love which we share with each other. We need to understand that God hates evil and loves good. But he still loves his creatures. Kinda goes back to the old saying "Love the sinner, hate the sin". If God didn't love everything he created, then the moment we sinned we would be destroyed. Pretty good proof that God loves us.
There's a lot more to this song. I only grazed over it.
<Recommended reading: "Mere Christianity" by C.S.Lewis>
God does not see in black and white. He is more intricate and wonderful than right or wrong. The artist says the world is grey signifying how we see God in a dualistic nature. We categorize into right and wrong and make up the grey, but that is just our thinking as humans.
God does not see in black and white. He is more intricate and wonderful than right or wrong. The artist says the world is grey signifying how we see God in a dualistic nature. We categorize into right and wrong and make up the grey, but that is just our thinking as humans.