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Sunday Morning Coming Down

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  • #2
    fitz0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,753 ✭✭✭fitz0


    wolfsbane wrote: »
    This song captures so well the emptiness of a life without Christ, or more specifically, the life of one who has lived in a society strongly influenced by the gospel, without personally embracing it.

    I don't see that to be honest. Ive never connected that song with religion in any way aside from it being a Sunday. AFAIK its only Sunday because it follows Saturday night, a night for going out usually, and its a peaceful day in most places. Theres nothing to suggest that the song is atheistic or theistic really.


  • #3
    wolfsbane
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,980 ✭✭✭wolfsbane


    fitz0 wrote: »
    I don't see that to be honest. Ive never connected that song with religion in any way aside from it being a Sunday. AFAIK its only Sunday because it follows Saturday night, a night for going out usually, and its a peaceful day in most places. Theres nothing to suggest that the song is atheistic or theistic really.

    And it took me back to somethin',
    That I'd lost somehow, somewhere along the way.

    And I stopped beside a Sunday school,
    And listened to the song they were singin'.
    Then I headed back for home,
    And somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringin'.
    And it echoed through the canyons,
    Like the disappearing dreams of yesterday.

    That and the fact of Sunday being special - he did not feel the same about a Wednesday, for example. Seems to me the 'missing' element related to him being outside the meaning and purpose Sunday conveyed to others. A man without God and without hope in the world.

    But maybe I'm reading too much into it.


  • #4
    Overblood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭Overblood


    Yeah I hate the comedown on a suday morning, you're like "ah I'm never taking pills ever again" but you know you will.

    Hold on a sec... oh right this is about a Johnny Cash song. Never mind...


  • #5
    Mickeroo
    Administrators, Computer Games Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 32,529 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Mickeroo


    wolfsbane wrote: »
    And it took me back to somethin',
    That I'd lost somehow, somewhere along the way.

    And I stopped beside a Sunday school,
    And listened to the song they were singin'.
    Then I headed back for home,
    And somewhere far away a lonely bell was ringin'.
    And it echoed through the canyons,
    Like the disappearing dreams of yesterday.

    That and the fact of Sunday being special - he did not feel the same about a Wednesday, for example. Seems to me the 'missing' element related to him being outside the meaning and purpose Sunday conveyed to others. A man without God and without hope in the world.

    But maybe I'm reading too much into it.

    I see where you're coming from there, the sunday school reference would suggest you're on to something. :)

    Thats the great thing about music though isn't it? How the same song can have different meanings for different people.


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