I'm just realizing now how really outstanding Tom Rapp & his group were. Time for rediscovery.
This song could be about Christ coming by again to die again. Like Faulkner figured in A Fable.
Who knows who is buried in the Tomb of the Unknowns...? Recall the times. The Vietnam War was raging & country (the USA) & it appeared sometimes the world was coming apart at the seams.
Love was/is the only answer to such terrible periods. Too bad too many who should know better have forgotten that. Others born too late are blinded by ignorance & cynicism. They're victims of their own will to violence & greed. Of course they don't see it that way. But its not inconceivable that there are at least two separate & distinct "psychologically different species" of humanity. Just a speculative hypothesis...
Of course maybe the implication is that we're all sons of some god or other. The lyrics connote reincarnation. Also the"you" in question might be viewed as either a failed suicide or some very very lucky survivor. Death is deferred. & the god &/or gods of our fathers & mothers is gently reprimanded for indifference, perhaps?
I'm just realizing now how really outstanding Tom Rapp & his group were. Time for rediscovery.
This song could be about Christ coming by again to die again. Like Faulkner figured in A Fable.
Who knows who is buried in the Tomb of the Unknowns...? Recall the times. The Vietnam War was raging & country (the USA) & it appeared sometimes the world was coming apart at the seams.
Love was/is the only answer to such terrible periods. Too bad too many who should know better have forgotten that. Others born too late are blinded by ignorance & cynicism. They're victims of their own will to violence & greed. Of course they don't see it that way. But its not inconceivable that there are at least two separate & distinct "psychologically different species" of humanity. Just a speculative hypothesis...
Of course maybe the implication is that we're all sons of some god or other. The lyrics connote reincarnation. Also the"you" in question might be viewed as either a failed suicide or some very very lucky survivor. Death is deferred. & the god &/or gods of our fathers & mothers is gently reprimanded for indifference, perhaps?
source: http://greenpagan.newsvine.com/_news/2013/01/05/16372848-another-time-by-pearls-before-swine