This is such a great belle and Sebastian song. The ‘He’ is the Christian God. The song taps into the Christian concept of magnification; it’s the idea that although God is infinant, He can seem obscured and small in this life. One of the jobs of the Christian is to magnify God like a telescope magnifies an image of a distant galaxy and makes it begin to appear as Big as it really is. So Stuart is singing this song to a lady who is having a rough trot in life and saying that if you look to Jesus, you might find that he offers what appears to be a tiny bit of hope. If you keep looking you will find that life is really part of an eternal reality and Jesus is both the focus of that reality and the key to that reality. If you’re not a Christian it will look like folly but once you’re in, you’ll never want to look back.
This is such a great belle and Sebastian song. The ‘He’ is the Christian God. The song taps into the Christian concept of magnification; it’s the idea that although God is infinant, He can seem obscured and small in this life. One of the jobs of the Christian is to magnify God like a telescope magnifies an image of a distant galaxy and makes it begin to appear as Big as it really is. So Stuart is singing this song to a lady who is having a rough trot in life and saying that if you look to Jesus, you might find that he offers what appears to be a tiny bit of hope. If you keep looking you will find that life is really part of an eternal reality and Jesus is both the focus of that reality and the key to that reality. If you’re not a Christian it will look like folly but once you’re in, you’ll never want to look back.