Faith Comes Later
(For Descartes)
Don't you worry my children
if you find yourself wondering
about all of this big talk
All this lightning and thundering
Just keep your hearts wide open
and there will come a day
when a light will come shining
and you'll see your way
Faith Comes Later
Faith Comes Later
Faith Comes Later
Once you've seen the Power of the Lord
There's no television preacher
no redneck on the radio
ever gonna teach you
what you really need to know
That your days all walk beside you
That your nights lay down with you
That there's a little voice inside you
gonna tell you what to do
Faith Comes Later
Once you've seen the Power of the Lord
Cartesian philosophy is, in a way, out of vogue in academics. But that doesn't make the writings of Rene Descartes any less powerful. Like it or not, Descartes is one of our fathers - one of those dead white men who defined the way we, as thinkers in the western tradition, view reality. And there comes a point in everyone's life when we just want to scream at the top of our lungs, to make our fathers listen. However you may feel about Mind-Body dualism, Descartes' proof of the existence of God is hard to beat. Anyway, thanks Kevin, for letting me know I'm not the only country song writer who worries about these things!
-- Elizabeth
Yeats says.....
When you are old and gray and full of sleep,
and nodding by the fire,
take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled,
And paced upon the mountains overhead, And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. --WB Yeats, "When You Are Old"
Beneath My Wheels
Long ago, when I was young
Before this endless rain
I fell down to my knees and made a deal
I gambled love for money
All for Earthly gain
To spin the world around
Beneath my wheels
Distances were nothing to me
Time was everything
I borrowed everything I could not steal
But I am growing older now
And I keep remembering
the promises I broke beneath my wheels
Beneath my wheels
Kingdom comes
And there's still so much to be done
If you stop your singing
And if the wind lies still
You'll hear the highway whining
beneath my wheels
Now the Devil dreams of me all day
And I dream of him all night
And in my dreams I never made that deal
A part of me keeps thinking
I can somehow make it right
If I just put a few more miles
Beneath my wheels
All lyrics copyrighted, of course....I mean, duh.
