To me the song is essentially a the opposite of a lullaby, instead of lulling an infant to sleep this instead calls a child to wake up and face life. While acknowledging the inevitability of pain, mistakes, and heartbreak the voice in the song assures the child to trust body, mind, and soul to move through all.
While not overtly heavy handed the song does have a brief summary of a theodicy (a justification of there being a loving God despite life sucking). “Some people want the rock but not the roll, but we all know there’s no God without the soul”
This reminds me of the so called soul-making theodicy attributed to Ireaneus an early Christian theologian who believed that the trials of life are meant to shape our souls towards a more robust and holy state.
While the voice singing the song could be thought of as the child’s parent, I like to think it’s the voice of Christ who could just as well be an uncle, an aunt, a friend, social worker taking the child into foster care, anyone who delivers Unconditional Love.
The two final verses of the song, first describe the essence of what it means to love, to give what you have to give your time to give your own heart and then repeats the word unconditional repeatedly. To me this is brilliant way to show but not tell what big L love means. It’s the essential element that carried us through life.
To me the song is essentially a the opposite of a lullaby, instead of lulling an infant to sleep this instead calls a child to wake up and face life. While acknowledging the inevitability of pain, mistakes, and heartbreak the voice in the song assures the child to trust body, mind, and soul to move through all.
While not overtly heavy handed the song does have a brief summary of a theodicy (a justification of there being a loving God despite life sucking). “Some people want the rock but not the roll, but we all know there’s no God without the soul”
This reminds me of the so called soul-making theodicy attributed to Ireaneus an early Christian theologian who believed that the trials of life are meant to shape our souls towards a more robust and holy state.
While the voice singing the song could be thought of as the child’s parent, I like to think it’s the voice of Christ who could just as well be an uncle, an aunt, a friend, social worker taking the child into foster care, anyone who delivers Unconditional Love.
The two final verses of the song, first describe the essence of what it means to love, to give what you have to give your time to give your own heart and then repeats the word unconditional repeatedly. To me this is brilliant way to show but not tell what big L love means. It’s the essential element that carried us through life.