Sooo...I got to this song because of Sarah Jarosz.
That octave mandolin...I swear!
Having said that, the lyrics immediately needled in my mind because something seemed familiar.
Then it hit me...it's a CS Lewis quote.
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” - CS Lewis
Read that last sentence again.
If that connection is correct, then the song is about a child wanting to be an adult in the eyes of a critical adult (Aunt Claire)...
"That I'll still believe in heaven but I won't believe in ghosts anymore"
But then the dawning realization that, as an adult, you don't have to be grown up to be in charge of your life...and maybe there's some room for childishness in there...and maybe you shouldn't care if anyone else does.
"I don't believe in heaven but I still believe in ghosts"
Sooo...I got to this song because of Sarah Jarosz. That octave mandolin...I swear! Having said that, the lyrics immediately needled in my mind because something seemed familiar. Then it hit me...it's a CS Lewis quote.
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.” - CS Lewis
Read that last sentence again.
If that connection is correct, then the song is about a child wanting to be an adult in the eyes of a critical adult (Aunt Claire)... "That I'll still believe in heaven but I won't believe in ghosts anymore"
But then the dawning realization that, as an adult, you don't have to be grown up to be in charge of your life...and maybe there's some room for childishness in there...and maybe you shouldn't care if anyone else does. "I don't believe in heaven but I still believe in ghosts"