Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Lyrics Du Jour - Whole of the Moon

In honor of the full moon tonight I'm sharing the lyrics to one of my ALL TIME favorite songs. This song, "Whole of the Moon" by The Waterboys, has always deeply moved me spiritually. More often than not, if all my attention is focused on fully listening to the music and lyrics of this song, I get full body tingles that my sister and I refer to as "God Hugs." Yes, there are a few specific lines that capture how I feel about God, but mostly I think my feelings for this song are poetic rather than a scientific disection of language. Here are just a couple of stanzas:

I pictured a rainbow, You held it in your hand
I had flashes, butYou saw the plan
I wandered out in the world for years
While you just stayed in your room
I saw the crescent
You saw the whole of the moon
The whole of the moon

I was grounded, While you filled the skies
I was dumbfounded by truth, You cut through lies
I saw the rain dirty valley, You saw "Brigadoon"
I saw the crescent, You saw the whole of the moon- Yeah

Whenever I'm feeling frustrated about only seeing a sliver of God's perfect balance of Truth & Grace, this song lifts my spirits and raises my voice in praise and reverence of His Glory.

1 comment:

Stacie said...

I wandered out in the world for years
While you just stayed in your room...

...I was dumbfounded by truth, You cut through lies...


This is really cool because I see your take on it and I see it applying to a different situation in a totally different way as well. Those lyrics above, to me, illustrate two completely different ways, life-choices, experiences, whatever you want to call them describing how Rusty and I got to where we are today.

I was the wanderer, and learned a lot from it even though it wasn't always pretty. Rusty didn't do a lot of the rebelling thing and ended up forming a lot of his opinions based on his abilities to not give in to the crowd, especially early in his college career.

And the "dumbfounded by truth"... HA! That's me. Sometimes I'm afraid to speak my mind because I so want to make sure it is truth. The reality of what "non-truths" can do holds me to that. But then there's Rusty who comes at it from the point where he listens for a while then just makes a statement or two that cut through the crap and leave everyone else going, "Yeah... what he said" :)

Ahhhh, music. So multi-faceted and fun :)