#378: Awake, My Heart, with Gladness
Oct. 9th, 2020 11:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsThere actually is an attributed music composer for this one, but if I didn't know better I would assume that the tune was "1600s German dance song we put new words to," because the rhythm is wild. Some dotted quarter/eighth notes (suggesting an underlying two-beat pattern), some random dotted half-notes (three-beats), no real measures.
Very mixed metaphors in verse 1 referencing death; we have to make our bed there (which has negative connotations in the sense of "you made your bed, now you have to sleep in it"), but also it's kind of like soaring on wings of flight. The little kids' rebuttal here seems valid; why do we have to make our bed if we're just gonna mess it up again tonight, but more importantly, why do we have to make our bed if we're dead and flying around on wings.
In contrast, the last verse mentions a "rhyme" written on the gates of heaven, in gold. I'm glad at least in heaven they care about their rhyme scheme!!
Very mixed metaphors in verse 1 referencing death; we have to make our bed there (which has negative connotations in the sense of "you made your bed, now you have to sleep in it"), but also it's kind of like soaring on wings of flight. The little kids' rebuttal here seems valid; why do we have to make our bed if we're just gonna mess it up again tonight, but more importantly, why do we have to make our bed if we're dead and flying around on wings.
In contrast, the last verse mentions a "rhyme" written on the gates of heaven, in gold. I'm glad at least in heaven they care about their rhyme scheme!!
