![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() god and angels?), who are now outside of the spirit's consciousness. When this spirit starting feeling the forces of the world again, she left the presence of "the glory" (ie. Line 6, I can only interpret as a reference to the spirit leaving the company of those in the afterlife. ![]() Basically, with Line 5, the child is starting to confront her environment. The eyes are a focus point of this stanza and the sun does provide the light that feeds information through the iris so, perhaps, the presenting of "the circle" is best understood as the presenting of the sun. Maybe it refers to the trajectory that Earth takes around the sun.īut the "circle" might also mean the sun itself, which is also a sphere but looks like a circle from us down on Earth. Hopefully, it doesn't mean the Earth as that's more like a sphere. I'm not sure what "the circle" refers to. The woman felt those forces, but after she died that feeling went into limbo however, when the spirit embodied the child the forces were felt "again." One interpretation is that the stanza above is from the point of view of the child's soul or spirit, one that has been reincarnated. The child that is born isn't feeling the forces of nature, gravity, and atmosphere, for the first time: rather the child is feeling them once "again." Given the youth and therefore inexperience of the child, that seems to be strange. If you are feeling something "again" it means that you have felt it at least once before, the feeling then disappeared, and you are feeling it for at least a second time. The use of the word "again" as it appears twice in the chorus shouldn't be ignored. Forces pullin' from the center of the earth again.Like a rollin' thunder chasing the wind.god is exercising his power) a child is born and a woman dies. However, more broadly lighting is just a symbol of power: the message seems to be that the power over life and death comes from the heavens above. Certainly, Thor is one god that is depicting as having control over the thunderbolts. The description of lightning in the first two stanzas and throughout the song's lyrics could be taken as a reference to god. In my view, that description continues in the chorus with the usage of just one word, an idea I'll return to shortly. This is the first hint that reincarnation is being described in the song. The two events are not presented as independent events: there is a reference to "confusion," or life, changing ownership in lines four and five of the second stanza. Conversely, "the angel" could be a literal one that actively opens and closes the eyes of the child and woman respectively. could be viewed as "The angel) enters the world while in the second stanza "The angel" is a dying woman. The paralleling lyrics between the first stanza and the second one are clear enough, but they describe contrasting situations. Lightning crashes and an old mother dies.Metaphors used in the stanza include "angel" for the newborn child and a feeling of "confusion" as life itself. In this stanza, childbirth and its pains are described. Before the doctor can even close the door.Lightning crashes and a new mother cries.However, I'm going to argue that the song is deep in theism and religion with references to reincarnation. The setting is clearly a hospital and the circle of life is described. This isn't a difficult song, especially if you watch the music video. ![]()
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