Showing posts with label believe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label believe. Show all posts

January 25, 2014

Moments in Doubt


How Deep It Goes
Lyrics sung by Heart
In the quiet afternoon you left and went down into town
And I just watched the empty road behind you
Where the fog lies kissing the mountainside
You want to be sleeping, deep inside
Believing that the hungry world won't find you
Well, that's just fine, that's just fine

You've got to believe and I don't know, I don't know
What I believe anymore
Or whether to leave, or whether to stay
Or what I can say
To make you know
How deep it goes...
Come on down
Come on down
You've got to come lay down here and say those things
Those warm things, right here in my ear
The times that you had that water like wine
So clean and so fine to make me know how deep it goes...

 Asking, always we are asking the eternal question-- 'I watched the empty road behind you, and "even though there's a scar there from before," is another one of the lyrics.
We want to know that there is the one, the beloved One who cares for us, that we are not living without affect. People who matter to us--why do they return, if at all; do we matter to them, and if not, then to where must we dedicate ourselves?

How long is long enough? Can we somewhere, somehow receive a sign? Taken yet another way, the song brings to mind comparisons to nature, to the Transcendentalists of an earlier century, who with a stroke of their pen inform us that they "have many more miles to go before they sleep." It is sometimes so clean and so fine to make me know how deep.

August 28, 2010

Living in Time

Time
by Hooty and the Blowfish
Listen Here

Time, why you punish me?
Like a wave crashing into the shore
You wash away my dreams
Time, why you walk away?
Like a friend with somewhere to go
You left me crying

And you'll teach me 'about tomorrow
And all the pain and sorrow running free?
Cause tomorrow's just another day
And I don't believe in time...

Time, Can you teach me 'about tomorrow
With all the pain and sorrow running free?
And tomorrow's just another day
And I don't believe in...

Time is wasted, time walking
Time, time
You ain't no friend of mine
I don't know where I'm going
I think I'm out of my mind
Thinking about time

And if I die tomorrow, yeah
Then lay me down to sleep

Time, you left me standing there
Like a tree growing all alone
The wind just stripped me bare
Stripped me bare
Time, the past has come and gone, gone
The future's far away
An hour only lasts for one second, one second

Time without courage, time without fear
Is just wasted, wasted, wasted time...

The lyrics to these songs are surprisingly similar; both deal with the concept of time. We learn in our lives that time is "relative." When bored, it seems interminable; when fully engaged, time is fleeing. We are surprised at how the time passes.

The bible tells us there is a season and a time "for everything under the sun." If so then, time is more about the seasons, and the rising and setting of the sun than a minute by minute construct. Taken in this way, with a longer, wider view, we may see more wholly the days pass. Are we to dissolve into our lives and grow into ourselves, the self that we are meant to become? Time then is no punishment. It's just time. How will we live within it? What will we say at its end, when the events of life overtake at last?