while i can see the resemblences to moses, jukeapples, but in this song i'd have to agree with those who said who use the christ comparison.
superman, son to the most powerful man on krypton (god, maybe?)...benevolent yet powerful ie superspeed, vision, super hearing etc (jesus performs miracles himself..water to wine, healing the sick)...moses doesn't translate in this way.
in all honesty, it seems to be more about god, than christ. "raise the boat, raise the dead", reminds me of noah's ark, the flood, and the water rising..."if you take us away, still we can say"...even if you rid the world of sin, it returns and your son will be there to fight against it (ie "if he had hands to tremble all over").
the underlying christian theme seems to dictate god talking to/about his son ("dreamt the lake, took the boy"), as well as the people talking about him. The lines,
"Trouble falls in my home
Troubled man, troubled stone
turn a mountain of lies
turn a card for my life
Man of Steel, Man of Heart
Tame our ways, if we start
To devise something more
Something half ways"
seems a direct reference to christs dying on the cross...while others seem to reference the ark, and his son. the songs switches POV's from a plural 'we' (the people) in the beginning, to a singular "I" in the middle, and then back again...which is confusing.
in general i think its about a people putting faith in someone to save them, and watch over them. and in his doing this (in a selfless way), they realize all the goodness that humainty can offer. it gives them hope. clearly, it takes a special person to do that to a race (society, group, whatever) of people...be it the man of steel, jesus, moses, martin luther king jj etcetera. while the references are biblical, this idea can be applied to a great deal of figures in history that led us to freedom and tolerance.
while i can see the resemblences to moses, jukeapples, but in this song i'd have to agree with those who said who use the christ comparison.
superman, son to the most powerful man on krypton (god, maybe?)...benevolent yet powerful ie superspeed, vision, super hearing etc (jesus performs miracles himself..water to wine, healing the sick)...moses doesn't translate in this way.
in all honesty, it seems to be more about god, than christ. "raise the boat, raise the dead", reminds me of noah's ark, the flood, and the water rising..."if you take us away, still we can say"...even if you rid the world of sin, it returns and your son will be there to fight against it (ie "if he had hands to tremble all over").
the underlying christian theme seems to dictate god talking to/about his son ("dreamt the lake, took the boy"), as well as the people talking about him. The lines,
"Trouble falls in my home Troubled man, troubled stone turn a mountain of lies turn a card for my life Man of Steel, Man of Heart Tame our ways, if we start To devise something more Something half ways"
seems a direct reference to christs dying on the cross...while others seem to reference the ark, and his son. the songs switches POV's from a plural 'we' (the people) in the beginning, to a singular "I" in the middle, and then back again...which is confusing.
in general i think its about a people putting faith in someone to save them, and watch over them. and in his doing this (in a selfless way), they realize all the goodness that humainty can offer. it gives them hope. clearly, it takes a special person to do that to a race (society, group, whatever) of people...be it the man of steel, jesus, moses, martin luther king jj etcetera. while the references are biblical, this idea can be applied to a great deal of figures in history that led us to freedom and tolerance.
goodness that humanity can offer? have you listened to john wayne gacy jr.?
goodness that humanity can offer? have you listened to john wayne gacy jr.?