My favourite part of this song has to be in the last verse,
"To a stable in ruins
In some backwater town,
To a virgin defiled,
No king but a child,
Too small for a crown."
The rhyme of "defiled" and "child" just emphasises the pure innocence of the little baby, the virgin "defiled" answers both an atheist view that Mary may have been raped and used the story of the child of god as a cover or out of ignorance (equating her unmarried state with virginity) and the religious stance that she is a virgin and this virginity is broken by the birth of her child.
This is absolutely beautiful, the "crown" for that little child being both the crown of the "king of the Jews" but also the crown of thorns. That that little child would one day be killed in the horrific Crucifixion. Frank Turner, like me, isn't a believer yet the imagery and poetry of this verse is inexplicably beautiful
My favourite part of this song has to be in the last verse, "To a stable in ruins In some backwater town, To a virgin defiled, No king but a child, Too small for a crown." The rhyme of "defiled" and "child" just emphasises the pure innocence of the little baby, the virgin "defiled" answers both an atheist view that Mary may have been raped and used the story of the child of god as a cover or out of ignorance (equating her unmarried state with virginity) and the religious stance that she is a virgin and this virginity is broken by the birth of her child. This is absolutely beautiful, the "crown" for that little child being both the crown of the "king of the Jews" but also the crown of thorns. That that little child would one day be killed in the horrific Crucifixion. Frank Turner, like me, isn't a believer yet the imagery and poetry of this verse is inexplicably beautiful