This track puts me in mind of William Holman Hunt’s painting “The Light of the World” which shows Christ, standing outside in the cold with a lantern, knocking at the door of a cosy house (subtext - your door).
“Let me in…”
Reproductions of this painting were everywhere in childhood experience during the latter half of the 20th century - your school, your church, whichever youth group you were involved in… it was hanging on the wall…
“Behold, I stand at the door and knock…”
Paul secularises and widens the appeal but retains something of the spirituality - “Let ‘em in…”
This track puts me in mind of William Holman Hunt’s painting “The Light of the World” which shows Christ, standing outside in the cold with a lantern, knocking at the door of a cosy house (subtext - your door). “Let me in…” Reproductions of this painting were everywhere in childhood experience during the latter half of the 20th century - your school, your church, whichever youth group you were involved in… it was hanging on the wall… “Behold, I stand at the door and knock…” Paul secularises and widens the appeal but retains something of the spirituality - “Let ‘em in…”