Another song to reflect over
PostPosted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 4:30 pm
This is another song by spanish songwriter/singer Marcos Vidal that I want to share with the english christian community because its poignant and necessary message. Once again, it's a shame that the beautiful rhyme and metric is lost in translation but the message is there.
I love how this song shows a typical man complaining to God about evil in the Earth while not doing anything about it himself; and it's only when he admits his foolishness that he can hear the voice of God who also demands answers.
Every day there's more violence
and more evil in the Earth
It seems as though love has died
and madness reigns over the humanity.
Dilapidated youths,
abandoned children
all for pleasure's wage
and all that matters is the interest.
"What about justice and retribution?
Where is reason and punishment left?
Why do you keep silent, Lord and forget about us?
How can you allow, oh Lord so much pain?"
"Tell me where is that Eliah's God
who from time to time let His voice be heard.
How much longer will take for your Spirit
to come to us?"
Foolish like childrens
clumsy little puppies,
how much do we like to play and to ask
the things that we have known for long:
God is still speaking,
He is still answering
and those who care to listen
are still able to hear His loving voice.
"How can I pour my Holy Spirit
if my children stay turned away from me?
Come, step ahead like a courageous warrior
I shall speak now and you shall answer to me."
"Tell me then where are those men like Eliah
who to follow me left everything behind ?
The ones who broke commitments with the world
only, only to please me?"
"Where are those three men that in Babylon,
chose to be burnt alive rather to yield?
Where is that Daniel, always worshipping me?
What about the purity of that Joseph?"
"Tell me where is the kid that killed the giant?
What about the successors of Joshua?
An where are those woman fully commited
like Esther?"
"Dilapidated youths
abandoned children
all for pleasure's wage
and innocently paying for the mistakes of others in the past."
"If my people would turn to me and sought me
renewing their commitment and their faith,
if they loved me as much as they love their own ways,
if they forgave all of yesterday's mistakes,"
"I would open wide the windows of the skies
and in the Earth my power would be seen.
In the meantime, I'll keep repeating like in the old times:
Seek me, seek me and you will live." (Am. 5:4)
I love how this song shows a typical man complaining to God about evil in the Earth while not doing anything about it himself; and it's only when he admits his foolishness that he can hear the voice of God who also demands answers.
Every day there's more violence
and more evil in the Earth
It seems as though love has died
and madness reigns over the humanity.
Dilapidated youths,
abandoned children
all for pleasure's wage
and all that matters is the interest.
"What about justice and retribution?
Where is reason and punishment left?
Why do you keep silent, Lord and forget about us?
How can you allow, oh Lord so much pain?"
"Tell me where is that Eliah's God
who from time to time let His voice be heard.
How much longer will take for your Spirit
to come to us?"
Foolish like childrens
clumsy little puppies,
how much do we like to play and to ask
the things that we have known for long:
God is still speaking,
He is still answering
and those who care to listen
are still able to hear His loving voice.
"How can I pour my Holy Spirit
if my children stay turned away from me?
Come, step ahead like a courageous warrior
I shall speak now and you shall answer to me."
"Tell me then where are those men like Eliah
who to follow me left everything behind ?
The ones who broke commitments with the world
only, only to please me?"
"Where are those three men that in Babylon,
chose to be burnt alive rather to yield?
Where is that Daniel, always worshipping me?
What about the purity of that Joseph?"
"Tell me where is the kid that killed the giant?
What about the successors of Joshua?
An where are those woman fully commited
like Esther?"
"Dilapidated youths
abandoned children
all for pleasure's wage
and innocently paying for the mistakes of others in the past."
"If my people would turn to me and sought me
renewing their commitment and their faith,
if they loved me as much as they love their own ways,
if they forgave all of yesterday's mistakes,"
"I would open wide the windows of the skies
and in the Earth my power would be seen.
In the meantime, I'll keep repeating like in the old times:
Seek me, seek me and you will live." (Am. 5:4)