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"Dexter and Sinister" - Elbow An advert flashed up on my Facebook feed for the Elbow album "Giants of all Sizes", with single lines playing from a few of the songs. Perhaps understandably the line that jumped out at me was the one above... "I don't know Jesus anymore." A quick Ecosia search and I found the song and had a listen, and the disappointment flowed out of me... Musically it seemed fine, but the words left me wanting more...
I don't think I got it first time round. This time it's saying a little bit more, but I'm still left wonder what I would want to say in a song containing the same line... If I was to get my lament on, and declare as the Psalmists and other Biblical writers do countless times, that I have no idea what's going on, and the foundation of my faith is shaking due to the seeming absence of the core, what would I say? Lyrics: And I don't know Jesus anymore And an endless sleep is awaiting me And I haven't finished yet And I'm not a dog for the end of days I'm a bird in a hurricane With the heaviest heart jack hammering in me And I don't know Jesus anymore Unstuck and the whole archipelago is rocking like a suicide pedalo at high tide Blazing eyes, hey how' d'ya keep your eyes ablaze In these faith free, hope free, charity free days Come back to the light Come pull on the bullwhip around my heart Take me to the sea Let me peel and fade by the seaside Where dead men go to die And long standing affairs fizzle in the brine And everybody stares with Eastwood eyes at the horizon And I haven't finished yet And loss is a part of life this long But Dexter and Sinister? I've the heaviest heart jack hammering in me And I don't know Jesus anymore And I don't know Jesus anymore
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