Bleak, but certainly not weak. I see it as a companion piece to "I Will Follow You into the Dark." This song is less personal and more philosophical in nature, however.
Being raised Catholic and having studied architecture, I appreciate his reading of the gesture to the heavens, a yearning unattained. Coincidently, I recently got into an argument with a friend about the afterlife, and the idea that "there's nothing past this."
Why wait until the end of days for salvation? We have the tools to do it ourselves, right here, right now: love and forgiveness. Don't ignore either one as you go through life.
Bleak, but certainly not weak. I see it as a companion piece to "I Will Follow You into the Dark." This song is less personal and more philosophical in nature, however.
Being raised Catholic and having studied architecture, I appreciate his reading of the gesture to the heavens, a yearning unattained. Coincidently, I recently got into an argument with a friend about the afterlife, and the idea that "there's nothing past this."
Why wait until the end of days for salvation? We have the tools to do it ourselves, right here, right now: love and forgiveness. Don't ignore either one as you go through life.
(Because heaven is secretly here.)
You sir, are a gentlemen, and a scholar.
You sir, are a gentlemen, and a scholar.