In Marc Cohn's "Walking in Memphis", when Muriel the piano player asks the narrator if he's " a Christian child", he replies with, "m'am I am tonight." The deep intensity of playing with her figuratively overpowered his rational faculties. Similarly, in "With a Spirit", the narrator tells the listener to "[not] think that God has died, this time." In our time, the prominence of religious belief has faded due to rational thought. God can be said to have died from within our collective conscious. Although atheism, liberating in the sense that it expresses what is likely to be the truth, by the same token brings with it a wave of cynicism. If the traditional belief that promises an after life with a benevolent being is false, what happens to us when we die? The implications are foreboding. This song encourages the listener to abandon their cynicism and just indulge in the basest of life's pleasures. Don't stop smoking those drugs, because they've got you feeling so high!
In Marc Cohn's "Walking in Memphis", when Muriel the piano player asks the narrator if he's " a Christian child", he replies with, "m'am I am tonight." The deep intensity of playing with her figuratively overpowered his rational faculties. Similarly, in "With a Spirit", the narrator tells the listener to "[not] think that God has died, this time." In our time, the prominence of religious belief has faded due to rational thought. God can be said to have died from within our collective conscious. Although atheism, liberating in the sense that it expresses what is likely to be the truth, by the same token brings with it a wave of cynicism. If the traditional belief that promises an after life with a benevolent being is false, what happens to us when we die? The implications are foreboding. This song encourages the listener to abandon their cynicism and just indulge in the basest of life's pleasures. Don't stop smoking those drugs, because they've got you feeling so high!