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Gryphon
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Feb-23-18, 08:21 PM (EDT) |
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"sotd, 2018.02.23"
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[OK, so, I'm an atheist, and this is pretty much a straight-up gospel song, and you know what, I don't even care. It's amazing.] Well the moon is broken and the sky is cracked Come on up to the house The only things that you can see is all that you lack Come on up to the house All your cryin' don't do no good Come on up to the house Well come down off the cross, we can use the wood You gotta come on up to the house Come on up to the house Come on up to the house The world is not my home I'm just a-passin' through You got to come on up to the house There's no light in the tunnel, no irons in the fire Come on up to the house And you're singin' lead soprano in a junkman's choir You got to come on up to the house Doesn't life seem nasty, brutish, and short? Come on up to the house The seas are stormy and you can't find no port You got to come on up to the house, yeah You gotta come on up to the house Come on up to the house The world is not my home I'm just a-passin' through You got to come on up to the house, yeah You gotta come on up to the house Come on up to the house The world is not my home I'm just a-passin' through You got to come on up to the house There's nothin' in the world that you can do You gotta come on up to the house And you been whipped by the forces that are inside you Gotta come on up to the house Well you're high on top of your mountain of woe Gotta come on up to the house Well you know you should surrender but you can't let it go You gotta come up on to the house, yeah Gotta come on up to the house Gotta come on up to the house The world is not my home I'm just a-passin' through You gotta come on up to the house Gotta come on up to the house You gotta come on up to the house Oh yeah - Tom Waits "Come On Up to the House" Mule Variations (1999) [I'm not entirely sure—the message is maddeningly ambiguous—but I think Mr. Waits would like us to come on up to the house.] --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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StClair
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Feb-25-18, 00:12 AM (EDT) |
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1. "RE: sotd, 2018.02.23"
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... meh. sorry, perhaps the whole performance is awesome, but just from the lyrics, I can't get with the message/assertion that none of this really matters, or is worth trying to make better, because it's just a temporary stop on the way to eternity. Heck, even if that's literally so, how is it really any different from the assertion/excuse that there's no point in cleaning something up when it's just going to get dirty again? Didn't I read somewhere, maybe in some book, that that kind of downright laziness is considered a sin in some parts? |
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Gryphon
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Feb-25-18, 00:49 AM (EDT) |
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2. "RE: sotd, 2018.02.23"
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>... meh. sorry, perhaps the whole performance is awesome, but just >from the lyrics, I can't get with the message/assertion that none of >this really matters, or is worth trying to make better, because it's >just a temporary stop on the way to eternity.Hm. That's not the feel I got from it; rather, it appeared to me the message was "this all seems like it's pretty much hopeless and pointless unless you come on up to the house." (shrug) I'm hardly an expert, but I've always vaguely thought the 20th-century gospel message was pretty self-improvement-y. The whole "complete dismissal of this life in favor of the next" thing reads more medieval/early-modern to me. --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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Gryphon
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Feb-25-18, 01:40 AM (EDT) |
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4. "RE: sotd, 2018.02.23"
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>"the house" being the church, where you can get on the right side of >God and find decent people to endure/wait out the next few decades >with, like friendly strangers in a bus station; until you can >finally shake the dirt of this worthless world off your feet >and get on to your real reward, your real existence... > >again, meh. but that's my reading. *shrug* Well, yes, it's just that I think that reading is a bit more St. Augustine than 20th-century Southern gospel (which is more along the lines of "find Jesus and get your shit together"). I mean, it's all much of a muchness to me, I prefer to interpret the chorus as a curling metaphor. --G. -><- Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/ zgryphon at that email service Google has Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam. |
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