08-24-2006, 11:01 PM
Yeah, I know it's weird, but hear me out. Fellow 'baser screwy and I were chatting on AIM while listening to In View for the umpteenth time, argue it's good points and bad. We couldn't shake the feeling that despite the overly simplistic lyrics, there was some deeper meaning the song we were failing to find. Suddenly, looking over the lyrics, it all made sense. "In View" is a song about God.
"I've been meaning to call you" - A believer who's backsliding, not in a relationship with God (the 'calling' could refer to praying, for example)
but God keeps sending him signs and trying to get back with him - "phone rings once, phone rings twice, phone rings three times"
"I am of you, And you are in everything I do" - Gord is part of God's creation, and it's evident in everything he does.
"I trust you/And that makes you true/I don't care if/It isn't the way it is" - This is a bit scary. Is Gord saying that no matter what the evidence, he has blind faith in Christianity?
Anyway, this is what we came up with when mining for meaning in this song. What followed was a big series of jokes about rewriting Hip lyrics to be about Jesus, examples of which can be posted. Are we barking up the wrong tree here, because this almost makes too much sense. Has Gord found God?
"I've been meaning to call you" - A believer who's backsliding, not in a relationship with God (the 'calling' could refer to praying, for example)
but God keeps sending him signs and trying to get back with him - "phone rings once, phone rings twice, phone rings three times"
"I am of you, And you are in everything I do" - Gord is part of God's creation, and it's evident in everything he does.
"I trust you/And that makes you true/I don't care if/It isn't the way it is" - This is a bit scary. Is Gord saying that no matter what the evidence, he has blind faith in Christianity?
Anyway, this is what we came up with when mining for meaning in this song. What followed was a big series of jokes about rewriting Hip lyrics to be about Jesus, examples of which can be posted. Are we barking up the wrong tree here, because this almost makes too much sense. Has Gord found God?