Monday 12 December 2016

Song for Advent #16: Are you the one that I've been waiting for? - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Nick Cave's songs are riddled with Biblical and theological allusions and this song is a great example.  It's a beautiful, gentle love song and the lyrics of the final verse reference the words of Jesus and an echo of the question that was asked of Jesus by John the Baptist:
There's a man who spoke wonders though I've never met him
He said, "He who seeks finds and who knocks will be let in"
I think of you in motion and just how close you are getting
And how every little thing anticipates you
All down my veins my heart-strings call
Are you the one that I've been waiting for?

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