Sparkle Options

[Merica]

Sparkle. I've had it on repeat today. Been playing it on the guitar, singing it in my head and outloud. I think it's really, really great. But what does it mean? Here are the lyrics, to save you time and effort.

I'm gatherin' up
my friends today
and those who
recognize the face
as the vision that changed my mind
from hate to faith
was as simple as grapes to
wine and sweet as

I'm gatherin' up my friends today
all these hookers and soldiers and swine
and would-be saints
all alone in their rooms that sparkle in their eye
play a song that they'll come outside
to see if

love will overcome
if this love will make us men
love will draw us in
to wipe our tears away

the day that I was so sweetly sung
by the wind and the thunder moved by "someone"
the feelin' of being lived was so strong
the giver became the gift, all one
the day that I was so sweetly sung
the wind seemed to whisper softly, "Oh son,
don't wait for the seas to part or messiahs to come
don't sit around and waste this chance, to see it!"

love will overcome
if this love will make us men
love will draw us in
to take our fear away

LOVE
LOVE
LOVE
LOVE, hey, yeah

love, this day now, this day that I was so
sweetly sung, I know, I know that
love will overcome

love will overcome
if this love will make us men
love will draw us in
to take our fear away, wipe our tears away
love
and all my friends are here
in the city I sing my song
in the face of the hooker, the soldier,
the swine
I found it, I found it, I found love!!!!!

love will, love will, love will,
overcome
overcome

I can't decide what I think it means. Any suggestions, folks?

[Merica]

Any ideas? Is it finding God, or not waiting for a God and embracing love and humanity instead?

Or something else?

[ItchyTriggerFinger]

Any ideas? Is it finding God, or not waiting for a God and embracing love and humanity instead?

Or something else?

Or bringing all of humanity around to finding God. Or starting a cult. Some would argue it's the same thing.

[Badman]

I have always thought the song was about Ed's wedding day. He feels as if love is speaking directly to him when he has gathered up his friends for the day. Ed equates love with god as it tells him to not wait for the seas to part or messiahs to come... in other words, don't wait for miracles, "don't sit around and waste this chance to see it."

The shot at seas parting and messiahs is also a rejection of organized religion. He says over and over "I've found it!" which shows that what he was looking for in organized religions he has actually found and it is love. love is the same entity that created the universe and is the "someone" mentioned in the song.

[ItchyTriggerFinger]

I have always thought the song was about Ed's wedding day. He feels as if love is speaking directly to him when he has gathered up his friends for the day. Ed equates love with god as it tells him to not wait for the seas to part or messiahs to come... in other words, don't wait for miracles, "don't sit around and waste this chance to see it."

The shot at seas parting and messiahs is also a rejection of organized religion. He says over and over "I've found it!" which shows that what he was looking for in organized religions he has actually found and it is love. love is the same entity that created the universe and is the "someone" mentioned in the song.

So in other words, it's a sequel to Top? I could see that.

[Merica]

Yeah; Badman, I love that interpretation. It's brilliant. Very well done sir.

And I like the idea it's a sequel to Top as well.

[Badman]

So in other words, it's a sequel to Top? I could see that.

Hmm... Top is definitely a rejection of teachers of religion. Our emptiness does build their alters. He stops there in top.

In sparkle... and the rest of TDTH Ed never recommends no religion but rather that we should worship love and that a creator actually does exist. I think in TC he advocated for philosophy and thought to fill the emptiness inside of us that would otherwise be filled with religious teachings.

Yeah, a sequel to Top works. Thread closed

[Liveoneut]

Nice post Merica. I got major goosebumps after reading the lyrics above. Kinda sucks that we lost the man behind those lyrics and songs.

[Nobody Knows]

It's funny actually... this song is about love and wine. Most songs on Alive are about love, water and wine... however, this song is fucking awesome and Alive is shit.