Here’s a track from Snow Patrol for your enjoyment. Click more for the lyrics and my emphases (which includes pretty much most of the song) for some good old fashioned Christo-ambiguous meaning. Enjoy!
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Tell me if I’m going crazy,
But everything You said amazed me.
Seems too easy on the ear to
Be something I should adhere to.
You told me to just simply wonder–
Rather than take shelter under–
And open my heart to the thought that
Life is something you’re not caught at.
Too easy to get lost in progress;
I didn’t see you there in that dress.
Then suddenly the world seems so small.
We’d fit it all inside our front hall.
Edison would spin in his grave
To ever see the light that You gave.
Don’t want to take it nice and slow, here.
Don’t want to waste a minute more, dear.
The universe just vanished out of sight,
And all the stars collapsed behind the pitch-black night.
And I can barely see Your face in front of mine,
But it is knowing You are there that makes me fine.
Maybe it’s the warmer climate.
Maybe I’m a smarter primate.
Maybe it’s the beer I’m drinking.
Maybe I’ve stopped over thinking,
Baby, you’re the words and chapters,
The sweetness in the morning after.
You are the cry that turns to laughter.
You’re the hope that ends disaster.
But the universe is just an empty space.
And all the stars can disappear without a trace.
I’m so glad that this has taken me so long,
‘Cause it’s the journey that made me so strong.
- Snow Patrol, Warmer Climate