Anyone know what Live said about "Selling the Drama?" Options

[Godiva]

I am looking for some commentary by Ed on Selling the Drama... but I prefer stuff he said back in the day when the song was popular and before that album was released.

Thanks!

[sellingthdrama]

I agree with that interpretation. I'd like to comment more, but it's pretty much dead on with my thoughts. Once I realized what the whole album was about, more of the songs started to make sense to me. I liked them before I knew, but I liked them in a different way after.

[FishOutaWater]

I agree with that interpretation. I'd like to comment more, but it's pretty much dead on with my thoughts. Once I realized what the whole album was about, more of the songs started to make sense to me. I liked them before I knew, but I liked them in a different way after.

Honestly, I look at almost all of their songs from this perspective. It's so weird to have a rock band that writes beautiful lyrics about spirituality that is so personal and is not tied to any particular denomination. Frankly, this is the one thing that makes me such a huge fan of the band and makes me so loyal. It is definitely NOT Christian rock, not in the traditional orthodox sense of Christianity that teaches about belief in the resurrection, sin, judgement and salvation. The spiritual songs on the albums over the last 15 years reflect an amalgomation of Ed's journey through several different spiritual tradtions and teachers and the process of searching for a path, finding the path and realizing the path. I personally like the music from the Ed that had just discovered Jiddu Krishnamurti and branched away from traditional Judeo-Christian roots (i.e. MJ and TC) more than the happy content Ed that is firmly plugged into all things Ken Wilber and company. Ed talked about how the first book that he read as a young man that totally blew him away and shifted his whole paradigm was You Are The World by Jiddu Krishnamurti. There is a song named after that book on MJ which I think reflects the principles in the book. I think that was the point when Ed appears to have moved away from what most people think of as Christianity. I obviously can't speak for Ed, but I think that more recently, he has returned to a new and different understanding of Jesus and his message, not as the savior and messiah that was a God-man sent as a sacrifice for sins, but as a spiritual being with mystical connection to the spirit who spoke of compassion, love, forgiveness, acceptance, peace and communal oneness with others. As described in Love Shines, Jesus taught about the same spirit shining in the present moment that the Buddha and all other great spiritual leaders spoke of.

I have a playlist of Live songs on my iPod call Spiritual Live Songs with what I perceive to be all of the spiritual-realted songs starting with Pain Lies On The Riverside off of MJ all the way up to You Are Not Alone off of SFBM. The biggest reason why I love SFBM so much is that I get a strong spritual message and vibe from the album. I can defintitely see how one wouldn't like that album if it didn't resonate on that level. But to me, a song like All I Need says the same thing as The Distance.