It's clearly a religiously-themed song, but it's sort of ambiguous whether he's in favor or not. I think he wants to be, but can't bring himself to. In the lines:
Face to his face, I put my
Hand into his and I tried to tell him, "No,
I've seen his work upon the panes of cathedrals,
In the sweat of the workers and the flight of the seagulls."
...I think he's trying to affirm, or prove even, his belief in a higher power, but that higher power shows itself to be cruel in the last verse. Even though I am a religious person, I love this kind of song, because I love tragedies and it seems like the saddest thing in the world to me, to want to find your God and fail through the fault of circumstance. Beautiful.
It's clearly a religiously-themed song, but it's sort of ambiguous whether he's in favor or not. I think he wants to be, but can't bring himself to. In the lines:
Face to his face, I put my Hand into his and I tried to tell him, "No, I've seen his work upon the panes of cathedrals, In the sweat of the workers and the flight of the seagulls."
...I think he's trying to affirm, or prove even, his belief in a higher power, but that higher power shows itself to be cruel in the last verse. Even though I am a religious person, I love this kind of song, because I love tragedies and it seems like the saddest thing in the world to me, to want to find your God and fail through the fault of circumstance. Beautiful.