Below are the lyrics of a song by the Crash Test Dummies, entitled "God Shuffled His Feet". As I was listening to the random songs on my computer, this one played and I noticed the continued reference to God. So, I looked up the lyrics and read them over. After reading them, I sat perplexed. What is the message here...or is there one beyond simple words? Take a look at the lyrics and tell me what you think...if anything at all.
After seven days
He was quite tired so God said:
"Let there be a day
Just for picnics, with wine and bread"
He gathered up some people he had made
Created blanket and laid back in the shade
The people sipped their wine
And what with God there, they asked him questions
Like: do you have to eat
Or get your hair cut in heaven?
And if your eye got poked out in this life
Would it be waiting up in heaven with your wife?
God shuffled his feet and glanced around at them;
The people cleared their throats and stared right back at him
So he said:"Once there was a boy
Who woke up with blue hair
To him it was a joy
Until he ran out into the warm air
He thought of how his friend would come to see;
And would they laugh, or had he got some strange disease?
God shuffled his feet and glanced around at them;
The people cleared their throats and stared right back at him
The people sat waiting
Out on their blankets in the garden
But God said nothing
So someone asked him:"I beg your pardon:
I'm not quite clear about what you just spoke
Was that a parable, or a very subtle joke?"
God shuffled his feet and glanced around at them;
The people cleared their throats and stared right back at him
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John 1:9-12
The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him. Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
3 comments:
It is a very good song. But....i would say...that i would not end the song like that. God is not silently watching when people ask questions. If we listen, He is there to answer. Then of course we need to know how to listen.
Could it be that that is the message of the song? Very much like Jesus' parables, many did not understand what was being said. Maybe an inability to properly listen to and understand God is the problem that is expressed in this song.
And...I agree. It is a nice song.
So...to enlighten the thoughts...the music video for this song is very telling. In the video many people are gathered to listen to God speak. However, in the end they discover that God is a puppet being manipulated by a person back stage. Now the meaning takes a whole new twist.
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