all the voices that join in at the second chorus never ceases to amaze me! i can't put it into words but there's just something about a group of people belting out to the same tune, y'know?
*Lyrics:* Well, I was young I was young and naïve Cause I was told Cause I was told so I believed I was told there’s only one road that leads you home And the truth was a cave On the mountain side And I’ll seek it out until the day I die I was bound I was bound and determined To be the child To be the child that you wanted I was blind to every sign you left for me to find And the truth became a tool I held in my hand And I really did not understand I was tired Of giving more than you gave to me And I desired A truth I wouldn’t have to seek But in the silence, I heard you calling out to me
@ek5371sorry to necro but you know that the fun part of faith is that it’s yours to make of it whatever it needs to be for your life, your survival, your will to live and sojourn. I like to listen to Sufjan Stevens because I often find resonance with my increase in faith but I’ve noticed there’s a sizable amount of people who speculate that each progressive album from Sufjan is a sort of meta-narrative of his losing faith. 🤷🏼♂️ I appreciate it when artists, including The Oh Hellos, have the courtesy and grace to produce a really toothsome song that really says everything that it needs to and then step away and not add any more commentary from themselves. They’re Christian, sure, but they’re not making explicitly Christian music, necessarily. Thematically, maybe they are implicitly Christian, but more so it’s music made with talent, expression, and love and so it provides a framework for anyone to map their own experience onto and feel it out for a bit. It’s like a shared practice of wearing a memory together. Losing faith, gaining faith. These are very limiting experiences. But in good music, there is a mutual visibility and presence that’s just too profound to ignore. Everytime we listen to a beautiful🎉 song, it’s like we’re being invited into a little pocket of reality where truth can be whatever you and the artist can quietly agree upon.
I consider this a song of breaking free from childhood abuse and control from overbearing parents, learning how to be happy and accept yourself on your own, and break free, now looking back on the way they were, and how they broke free. Probably projecting, but....the point of songs and music is oftentimes to make what you want of it, and i've noticed many themes of abuse and breaking free in these songs, whether intended or not, that I find very inspiring!
Abuse is a big theme of this and also Dear Wormwood, so you're not too far off; albeit a big part of it is also breaking away from the shackles of sin and religious confusion. This is a very christian album with a lot of biblical messages. I hope that doesn't sour your opinion of it. This song in particular I think is largely about how the truth, as in religious truth, can become a burden people pile on themselves by having rigid unchanging dogma that doesn't allow the complexity of God's creation to shine, as well as closing oneself off with hate and ignorance, when the truth should actually remove these things and allow you to embrace the world with a newfound love. This ignorance and blindness to the true beauty of the truth seems to be imposed by a parental figure with the aforementioned crushing view of the Christian faith, so it's also a story about overcoming spiritual abuse and still having a spiritual life to speak of. Hope this helps!
I've always took it as a song about leaving a toxic religion. Especially the part where you realize your religion is toxic and you're leaving it. That's probably just me tho because strangely enough I got into this band when I was leaving Christianity and I've associated a lot of their songs with that experience for me.
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all the voices that join in at the second chorus never ceases to amaze me! i can't put it into words but there's just something about a group of people belting out to the same tune, y'know?
*Lyrics:*
Well, I was young
I was young and naïve
Cause I was told
Cause I was told so I believed
I was told there’s only one road that leads you home
And the truth was a cave
On the mountain side
And I’ll seek it out until the day I die
I was bound
I was bound and determined
To be the child
To be the child that you wanted
I was blind to every sign you left for me to find
And the truth became a tool
I held in my hand
And I really did not understand
I was tired
Of giving more than you gave to me
And I desired
A truth I wouldn’t have to seek
But in the silence, I heard you calling out to me
they are christian?
@@nathwaav Yes, they are Christian. This album especially pulls a lot from Christian mythos.
@ek5371sorry to necro but you know that the fun part of faith is that it’s yours to make of it whatever it needs to be for your life, your survival, your will to live and sojourn. I like to listen to Sufjan Stevens because I often find resonance with my increase in faith but I’ve noticed there’s a sizable amount of people who speculate that each progressive album from Sufjan is a sort of meta-narrative of his losing faith. 🤷🏼♂️ I appreciate it when artists, including The Oh Hellos, have the courtesy and grace to produce a really toothsome song that really says everything that it needs to and then step away and not add any more commentary from themselves. They’re Christian, sure, but they’re not making explicitly Christian music, necessarily. Thematically, maybe they are implicitly Christian, but more so it’s music made with talent, expression, and love and so it provides a framework for anyone to map their own experience onto and feel it out for a bit. It’s like a shared practice of wearing a memory together. Losing faith, gaining faith. These are very limiting experiences. But in good music, there is a mutual visibility and presence that’s just too profound to ignore. Everytime we listen to a beautiful🎉 song, it’s like we’re being invited into a little pocket of reality where truth can be whatever you and the artist can quietly agree upon.
I consider this a song of breaking free from childhood abuse and control from overbearing parents, learning how to be happy and accept yourself on your own, and break free, now looking back on the way they were, and how they broke free. Probably projecting, but....the point of songs and music is oftentimes to make what you want of it, and i've noticed many themes of abuse and breaking free in these songs, whether intended or not, that I find very inspiring!
Abuse is a big theme of this and also Dear Wormwood, so you're not too far off; albeit a big part of it is also breaking away from the shackles of sin and religious confusion. This is a very christian album with a lot of biblical messages. I hope that doesn't sour your opinion of it. This song in particular I think is largely about how the truth, as in religious truth, can become a burden people pile on themselves by having rigid unchanging dogma that doesn't allow the complexity of God's creation to shine, as well as closing oneself off with hate and ignorance, when the truth should actually remove these things and allow you to embrace the world with a newfound love.
This ignorance and blindness to the true beauty of the truth seems to be imposed by a parental figure with the aforementioned crushing view of the Christian faith, so it's also a story about overcoming spiritual abuse and still having a spiritual life to speak of.
Hope this helps!
Lovely interpretation! This is how I not only see this song, but also the song "Dear Wormwood"
I've always took it as a song about leaving a toxic religion. Especially the part where you realize your religion is toxic and you're leaving it. That's probably just me tho because strangely enough I got into this band when I was leaving Christianity and I've associated a lot of their songs with that experience for me.
This is my favorite Oh Hellos song, it describes my faith journey so well.
I may be late hopping on this bands wagon, but I don't care. I'm glad I'm here now, thank you for the beautifully amazing vibes.
I hope you’re enjoying the ride!
Better late than never. 👍
This is one of my favorite Oh Hellos songs I’m so happy for this remaster!
There are multiple pathways to God. Just so everyone knows…❤
Just finished listening to the novelette by Neil Gaiman so of course I had to come back and revisit this gem
More or less, this is the conversion of St. Paul! Probably intended 😊
I hear a lot of Pilgrim's Regress (C. S. Lewis) in there as well.
As of now my favorite Oh Hellos song!!!
🙌🙌🙌
Awesome!!!!
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🥇🥇🥇
I just stumbled upon this band
Plato, Paul, and Augustine references. Dense little song, this.
Reminds me of psallos
JESUS the only way to heaven have faith in JESUS, Godbless! (John 3:16, John 14:6, Ephesians 2:8-9)