Holy shit Sam Beam is a genius. Learning about this song gave me the chills and made my eyes water. This song is definitely optimistic...to me atleast.
This is from wikipedia: There is a Christian fable that proclaims that the cross used to crucify Jesus was constructed of dogwood.[3] As the fable goes, during the time of Jesus, the dogwood was larger and stronger than it is today. After his crucifixion, Jesus changed the plant to its current form: he shortened it and twisted its branches as to assure an end to the use of the plant for the construction of crosses, and he transformed its inflorescence into the form of the crucifixion itself. The four white bracts are cross-shaped, which are said to represent the four corners of the cross, each bearing a rusty indentation as of a nail; the red stamens of the flower, represents Jesus' crown of thorns; and the clustered red fruit represent his blood.
The first stanza seems to represent that there were bad times in the past, "yesterday the solace of a poison fish." and good times in the future: "tomorrow I'll be kissing on her blood red lips."
There's so much more meaning in this song...I'll have to think about it and come back to it later.
Holy shit Sam Beam is a genius. Learning about this song gave me the chills and made my eyes water. This song is definitely optimistic...to me atleast. This is from wikipedia: There is a Christian fable that proclaims that the cross used to crucify Jesus was constructed of dogwood.[3] As the fable goes, during the time of Jesus, the dogwood was larger and stronger than it is today. After his crucifixion, Jesus changed the plant to its current form: he shortened it and twisted its branches as to assure an end to the use of the plant for the construction of crosses, and he transformed its inflorescence into the form of the crucifixion itself. The four white bracts are cross-shaped, which are said to represent the four corners of the cross, each bearing a rusty indentation as of a nail; the red stamens of the flower, represents Jesus' crown of thorns; and the clustered red fruit represent his blood. The first stanza seems to represent that there were bad times in the past, "yesterday the solace of a poison fish." and good times in the future: "tomorrow I'll be kissing on her blood red lips." There's so much more meaning in this song...I'll have to think about it and come back to it later.