Even without taking into consideration all of the lyrics, this song really speaks to me of disillusionment with the modern commercialisation of Christmas and the numbness that occurs in the realisation that most of the good we ever tried to attribute to this bastardised pagan holiday has all but faded away now. And yet, like that star over Bethlehem, the idea of Advent transformation and of possible rescue shines on in the hearts of some noble believers. And shine on it shall!
Even without taking into consideration all of the lyrics, this song really speaks to me of disillusionment with the modern commercialisation of Christmas and the numbness that occurs in the realisation that most of the good we ever tried to attribute to this bastardised pagan holiday has all but faded away now. And yet, like that star over Bethlehem, the idea of Advent transformation and of possible rescue shines on in the hearts of some noble believers. And shine on it shall!