I think this song is a lot more literal and simple than many initially stated.
I want to first point out how Aaron Weiss views this world. In "All the Clever Words on Pages" by Paul Harrison (a friend of Aaron Weiss), Paul states how Aaron doesn't like to waste food and how he feels bad doing so. Aaron would take food from dumpsters and cook meals for himself and often a group of people. His mother wanted Aaron to understand some things will get wasted and we just have to live with it.
Aaron also states a lot of believes where he expresses that G-d is everywhere and in everything (in a certain sense). Even in the smallest things like a good gesture, creation, and us. This view is very common with a particular religion (I forgot which one) but the point is that Aaron obviously adopted this belief where he G-d is in the smallest of things.
All that being said, I believe this song is about how our culture is careless with G-d's creation
and Aaron is simply stating this story/belief.
He talks about how the holland lops hopping along some grass and cut hurt because the grass was cut. The grass doesn't speak out against us and doesn't mind it being cut. This act of cutting the grass doesn't take into consideration other animals and how they might dislike this...
He talks about chicken wire hutch, how the chicken is limited.
"I touched her back, she was lying face down
the dew turned to frost in her eyes
me and sister margaret in the pentagon lawn with our wrists in a plastic tie":
Here he is talking about the grass. Aaron touched the back of the grass with its face lying down.
The grass is probably lying face down because someone walked on it or he was laying on the grass when being arrested. The due is on the tip of the grass which he calls her eyes, it turned to frost.
can you guys apply this view to the rest of the song now? Aaron puts himself in the shoes of animals and says no more timothy hay as a way to say "we animals are tired of this life where you limit us in every way, G-d made us to roam free, live our life, and here you humans are being all selfish, cutting our lovely grass where we play and sleep, putting us in cages, trying to kill us with traps, and feeding us this nasty food"
I can't quite understand how the last paragraph fits in this picture, I might come back and comment later after reading from the CD lyrics.
That makes sense, actually..
It might be something to get out of this song besides my insight(which is that us Christians are tired of monotonous religious everyday lives and rituals and want to pursue and dive into the all of the relationship with Jesus and wholeness of the holy spirit.
That makes sense, actually..
It might be something to get out of this song besides my insight(which is that us Christians are tired of monotonous religious everyday lives and rituals and want to pursue and dive into the all of the relationship with Jesus and wholeness of the holy spirit.
If you look at the Jonah House pictures you can see Aaron in the first picture. He is the bearded guy in the blue jacket and hat. He is touching Sister Margaret's back who is face down in the grace. The protest was done in December when the dew would turn to frost. I like your interpretations, but I think that part might just be about the protest.But you do have a very interesting take on it.
If you look at the Jonah House pictures you can see Aaron in the first picture. He is the bearded guy in the blue jacket and hat. He is touching Sister Margaret's back who is face down in the grace. The protest was done in December when the dew would turn to frost. I like your interpretations, but I think that part might just be about the protest.But you do have a very interesting take on it.
I think this song is a lot more literal and simple than many initially stated.
I want to first point out how Aaron Weiss views this world. In "All the Clever Words on Pages" by Paul Harrison (a friend of Aaron Weiss), Paul states how Aaron doesn't like to waste food and how he feels bad doing so. Aaron would take food from dumpsters and cook meals for himself and often a group of people. His mother wanted Aaron to understand some things will get wasted and we just have to live with it.
Aaron also states a lot of believes where he expresses that G-d is everywhere and in everything (in a certain sense). Even in the smallest things like a good gesture, creation, and us. This view is very common with a particular religion (I forgot which one) but the point is that Aaron obviously adopted this belief where he G-d is in the smallest of things.
All that being said, I believe this song is about how our culture is careless with G-d's creation and Aaron is simply stating this story/belief.
He talks about how the holland lops hopping along some grass and cut hurt because the grass was cut. The grass doesn't speak out against us and doesn't mind it being cut. This act of cutting the grass doesn't take into consideration other animals and how they might dislike this...
He talks about chicken wire hutch, how the chicken is limited.
"I touched her back, she was lying face down the dew turned to frost in her eyes me and sister margaret in the pentagon lawn with our wrists in a plastic tie": Here he is talking about the grass. Aaron touched the back of the grass with its face lying down. The grass is probably lying face down because someone walked on it or he was laying on the grass when being arrested. The due is on the tip of the grass which he calls her eyes, it turned to frost.
can you guys apply this view to the rest of the song now? Aaron puts himself in the shoes of animals and says no more timothy hay as a way to say "we animals are tired of this life where you limit us in every way, G-d made us to roam free, live our life, and here you humans are being all selfish, cutting our lovely grass where we play and sleep, putting us in cages, trying to kill us with traps, and feeding us this nasty food"
I can't quite understand how the last paragraph fits in this picture, I might come back and comment later after reading from the CD lyrics.
What do you guys think?
That makes sense, actually.. It might be something to get out of this song besides my insight(which is that us Christians are tired of monotonous religious everyday lives and rituals and want to pursue and dive into the all of the relationship with Jesus and wholeness of the holy spirit.
That makes sense, actually.. It might be something to get out of this song besides my insight(which is that us Christians are tired of monotonous religious everyday lives and rituals and want to pursue and dive into the all of the relationship with Jesus and wholeness of the holy spirit.
jonahhouse.org/FRDec07Pen.htm
jonahhouse.org/FRDec07Pen.htm
If you look at the Jonah House pictures you can see Aaron in the first picture. He is the bearded guy in the blue jacket and hat. He is touching Sister Margaret's back who is face down in the grace. The protest was done in December when the dew would turn to frost. I like your interpretations, but I think that part might just be about the protest.But you do have a very interesting take on it.
If you look at the Jonah House pictures you can see Aaron in the first picture. He is the bearded guy in the blue jacket and hat. He is touching Sister Margaret's back who is face down in the grace. The protest was done in December when the dew would turn to frost. I like your interpretations, but I think that part might just be about the protest.But you do have a very interesting take on it.