For the next couple of weeks or so, I'm going to analyse song lyrics , in relation to God and worshiping, surrendering to, and serving Him.
To start with, I gonna use an U2 (I'm gonna use a few of theirs) song, Elevation. It's kinda a power rock song, best known for having Angelina Jolie (Tomb Raider) in the video. The song could be about romantic love, but if so, it's asking alot. How can any any woman "explain all these controls" to our soul. Anyway, here's the lyrics and my thoughts. Comment me or e-mail me if you know of any artists or song that you think I'd like.
ELEVATION
High, Higher then the sun.
You shoot me from a gun.
I need you to elevate me here.
In the corner of your lips is the orbits of your hips.
Eclipse. You elevate my soul.
I’ve got no self control.
Living like a mole, now going down, excavation.
Iodine in the sky. You make me feel like I can fly. So high.
ELEVATION
A star, it looked like a cigar.
Still got like a guitar,
Maybe you educate my mind.
Explain all these controls.
Can’t sing but I’ve got soul.
The goal. Is elevation.
A mole, digging in a hole.
Digging up my soul, now going down, excavation.
Iodine in the sky. You make me feel like I can fly. So high.
ELEVATION
Lift me up from these blues.
Won’t you tell me something true, I believe in you.
A mole, digging in a hole.
Digging up my soul, now going down, excavation.
Iodine in the sky. You make me feel like I can fly. So high.
ELEVATION
Bono addresses in this song, someone higher then himself. If we take this to be our heavenly father. The song takes on a depth of meaning.
In the first verse, Bono acknowledges God ‘s highness (higher then the sun), his control over his own life (You shoot me from a gun) and possibly his beauty (in your lips is the orbit of your hips). Maybe eclipse is him acknowledging that his knowledge of God is pretty much blind in view of God’s infinity or maybe he’s admitting that in spite of God’s power, we don’t always see him.
Bono goes on to say he’s got no self-control. I can relate. I know from my own experience that my lack of self-control invariably leads to sin, which leads to distance from and blindness to God. Eclipse.
In times of spiritual darkness, we’re like the mole, digging ourselves deeper. It’s God’s mercy that He uses these “hole” experience to examine the deeper hurts and desires in our soul and begin healing the. “Digging up my soul – excavation”
The second verse seems to be concerned with our image, inadequacy and asking for God to teach us. Bono, I thinks compares our God-given image with our feelings. “A star, it looked like a cigar.” He see some good in himself. “Still got like a guitar” and asks God to teach him how he use what he has “…educate my mind. Explain… controls.” He is not perfect yet, but know sthat in his God-given soul he is good. “Can’t sing, but I got soul.”
The goal isn’t to recreate himself from scratch but allow God to elevate him by surrendering to Him.
I recommend reading Psalm 139 in relation to what I guess you could call a modern psalm and look at the parallels.
High, Higher then the sun.
You shoot me from a gun.
I need you to elevate me here.
In the corner of your lips is the orbits of your hips.
Eclipse. You elevate my soul.
I’ve got no self control.
Living like a mole, now going down, excavation.
Iodine in the sky. You make me feel like I can fly. So high.
ELEVATION
A star, it looked like a cigar.
Still got like a guitar,
Maybe you educate my mind.
Explain all these controls.
Can’t sing but I’ve got soul.
The goal. Is elevation.
A mole, digging in a hole.
Digging up my soul, now going down, excavation.
Iodine in the sky. You make me feel like I can fly. So high.
ELEVATION
Lift me up from these blues.
Won’t you tell me something true, I believe in you.
A mole, digging in a hole.
Digging up my soul, now going down, excavation.
Iodine in the sky. You make me feel like I can fly. So high.
ELEVATION
Bono addresses in this song, someone higher then himself. If we take this to be our heavenly father. The song takes on a depth of meaning.
In the first verse, Bono acknowledges God ‘s highness (higher then the sun), his control over his own life (You shoot me from a gun) and possibly his beauty (in your lips is the orbit of your hips). Maybe eclipse is him acknowledging that his knowledge of God is pretty much blind in view of God’s infinity or maybe he’s admitting that in spite of God’s power, we don’t always see him.
Bono goes on to say he’s got no self-control. I can relate. I know from my own experience that my lack of self-control invariably leads to sin, which leads to distance from and blindness to God. Eclipse.
In times of spiritual darkness, we’re like the mole, digging ourselves deeper. It’s God’s mercy that He uses these “hole” experience to examine the deeper hurts and desires in our soul and begin healing the. “Digging up my soul – excavation”
The second verse seems to be concerned with our image, inadequacy and asking for God to teach us. Bono, I thinks compares our God-given image with our feelings. “A star, it looked like a cigar.” He see some good in himself. “Still got like a guitar” and asks God to teach him how he use what he has “…educate my mind. Explain… controls.” He is not perfect yet, but know sthat in his God-given soul he is good. “Can’t sing, but I got soul.”
The goal isn’t to recreate himself from scratch but allow God to elevate him by surrendering to Him.
I recommend reading Psalm 139 in relation to what I guess you could call a modern psalm and look at the parallels.
Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
(Psa 139:23-24 ESV)
“You make feel like I can fly. So high. Elevation.
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