I was listening to mewithoutYou’s album, It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All a Dream! It’s Alright! and was reminded, once again, that mewithoutYou is a great band. Not only are they a great band, but they fill their songs with more direct references (and straight up quotations) from the Bible than pretty much any other band I know.
For example: “The Angel of Death Came to David’s Room.”
This song portrays a conversation between King David and the Angel of Death when it visits David in his old age. David doesn’t want to go with him and the Angel keeps pointing out that death is inevitable. David references some of the parts of his life in his defeat of Goliath and his son Solomon, but none of that matters to the Angel. Finally the angel sings to David:
Come now David where’s Uriah gone?
Stranded on the battlefield, the troops withdrawn
Come now David, where’s Uriah gone?
His time came to go
Come now David, where’s Bathsheba gone?
And where’ve your binoculars and rooftops gone?
And the unexpected Baby-from-the-bath-night gone?
Their time came to go
Come now David, where is everybody goin’? [x7]
In the face of the inevitability of death, what we have done (right or wrong) really does not matter.
So are you ready to face death?
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