Composed and recorded by Sam Sparro, “Black and Gold” is a likable, bold song all about truth. It asks one critical question, ‘Why this world and all its contents?’ If God isn’t here, nothing really matters in the grand scheme of things. The first stanza is an obvious reference to evolution, “If the fish swam out of the ocean and grew legs and started walking, and the apes climbed down from the trees and grew tall and they started talking.” If evolution were a relevant life theory, things would continue evolving. However, the failure for things to continue to evolve diminishes this theory. In this song, Sparro recognizes the artist comes to this rationalization because he believes if there was no god, then nothing really matters. He fears that if we were to exist due to evolution, “its all just a bunch of matter” and our lives count for nothing.
As the song continues the artist talks about how he can sense that God is there. "I sense the weight of something beyond them and I don't see what I can feel." He knows that God is all around him he just can't see God. However, Sparro then goes on to say, "If vision is the only validation, then most of my life isn't real." He recognizes seeing isn’t believing, believing is seeing. Many things in life are believed and not seen. You cannot see the wind, only the effects of it, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there. The same applies with God, though you cannot see him physically, you can see him at work in people and creation.
The colours black and gold are also symbolic in the song. The golden beacons symbolizes God’s path of guidance. Sparro mentions “all around these golden beacons I see nothing but black.” The black signifies the background of nothingness that God shines his guidance on.
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Hundreds of millions of years of evolution to make it to this point in our timeline.
And you use ~5000 years of recorded history to make the assumption that evolution suddenly stopped happening?
@winkingsmurf
Hundreds of millions of years of evolution to make it to this point in our timeline.
And you use ~5000 years of recorded history to make the assumption that evolution suddenly stopped happening?
Composed and recorded by Sam Sparro, “Black and Gold” is a likable, bold song all about truth. It asks one critical question, ‘Why this world and all its contents?’ If God isn’t here, nothing really matters in the grand scheme of things. The first stanza is an obvious reference to evolution, “If the fish swam out of the ocean and grew legs and started walking, and the apes climbed down from the trees and grew tall and they started talking.” If evolution were a relevant life theory, things would continue evolving. However, the failure for things to continue to evolve diminishes this theory. In this song, Sparro recognizes the artist comes to this rationalization because he believes if there was no god, then nothing really matters. He fears that if we were to exist due to evolution, “its all just a bunch of matter” and our lives count for nothing. As the song continues the artist talks about how he can sense that God is there. "I sense the weight of something beyond them and I don't see what I can feel." He knows that God is all around him he just can't see God. However, Sparro then goes on to say, "If vision is the only validation, then most of my life isn't real." He recognizes seeing isn’t believing, believing is seeing. Many things in life are believed and not seen. You cannot see the wind, only the effects of it, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t there. The same applies with God, though you cannot see him physically, you can see him at work in people and creation. The colours black and gold are also symbolic in the song. The golden beacons symbolizes God’s path of guidance. Sparro mentions “all around these golden beacons I see nothing but black.” The black signifies the background of nothingness that God shines his guidance on.
Good stuff =)
Good stuff =)
@winkingsmurf Hundreds of millions of years of evolution to make it to this point in our timeline. And you use ~5000 years of recorded history to make the assumption that evolution suddenly stopped happening?
@winkingsmurf Hundreds of millions of years of evolution to make it to this point in our timeline. And you use ~5000 years of recorded history to make the assumption that evolution suddenly stopped happening?