We - Humans, as saved by grace
Are - Exist in a state that we are barely aware of
Young - Just starting out on the human learning experiment. Being young will not last forever. In this moment of our youth, we are uniquely (angels don't get God's interest in us, nor does Satan as a angel) empowered with God's indwelling even while surrounded by a world defined by His antithesis: imperfection. Only in this moment here on this current earth can we live with God's grace as well as with a broken and chaotic world. Chaos is perhaps the most opposite of God. We live chaos daily. Though God is the only help within the mess of our young lives.
Through our own death or through some other titanic change, we will soon not be young. When that time comes, we will know God in a different way, within the confines of perfection everywhere. Knowing both the imperfect and the perfect with then raise us above the angels, since they only really "get" perfection.
Lyrically, the song plays to the standard desire of guys to come to the aid of women when Janelle adds her plea for someone to "Carry me home".
This song is popular for a reason, though the music video illustrates that the artists fail to see the bigger picture of what they have stumbled on to. Today, being popular often means you have touched something existential in all of us. That is the case here. This song is really about much more than a bar brawl and touching emotions. It is about where emotions start. In addition, it is singable and has a major-key melody. Both are important for broad acceptance.
This is an amazingly insightful muse that the video artists just didn't understand. But then, they seldom do. We are all, indeed, young, and it has nothing to do with our length of earthly days. And even less with bar hijinks. Bars? Please. That's like War and Peace being about Russia.
Are - Exist in a state that we are barely aware of
Young - Just starting out on the human learning experiment. Being young will not last forever. In this moment of our youth, we are uniquely (angels don't get God's interest in us, nor does Satan as a angel) empowered with God's indwelling even while surrounded by a world defined by His antithesis: imperfection. Only in this moment here on this current earth can we live with God's grace as well as with a broken and chaotic world. Chaos is perhaps the most opposite of God. We live chaos daily. Though God is the only help within the mess of our young lives.
Through our own death or through some other titanic change, we will soon not be young. When that time comes, we will know God in a different way, within the confines of perfection everywhere. Knowing both the imperfect and the perfect with then raise us above the angels, since they only really "get" perfection.
Lyrically, the song plays to the standard desire of guys to come to the aid of women when Janelle adds her plea for someone to "Carry me home".
This song is popular for a reason, though the music video illustrates that the artists fail to see the bigger picture of what they have stumbled on to. Today, being popular often means you have touched something existential in all of us. That is the case here. This song is really about much more than a bar brawl and touching emotions. It is about where emotions start. In addition, it is singable and has a major-key melody. Both are important for broad acceptance.
This is an amazingly insightful muse that the video artists just didn't understand. But then, they seldom do. We are all, indeed, young, and it has nothing to do with our length of earthly days. And even less with bar hijinks. Bars? Please. That's like War and Peace being about Russia.
