Considering Entre Dos Tierras

So I had this thought yesterday that the next song to play on my iPod was important, and as luck would have it, the next song to pop up was in Spanish. I have songs from not only Spanish, but Swedish, German, and French on my iPod because I am more about the music than the lyrics when I listen to music. Probably has to do with my growing up to classical. A lot of Heroes del Silencio doesn't work so well without knowing the lyrics, but I still like to listen to it.

So after getting home, I grabbed the lyrics that someone online had so very kindly translated, and I've been thinking about it ever since. Let's tear this song apart here.

You can give away your soul if you want power. It's easy to shoot off your mouth. If you want to repent, you have a lot to fix. But I'm not to blame for your failures. You lose faith, any hope is in vain, and I don't know what to believe. You forget about me when no one calls, and yet you blame me when they don't. You're stuck between two worlds and don't give yourself any air to breathe. Leave your old life behind and don't be bitter about it and get out of the way. And if you don't want to change your ways then you have a lot of crap to take.

Rewriting like that, it does have a message. And it works. If you want it all, that's cool. We know the prince of this world is eager to take your soul for empty power. It's easy to lose faith when things don't go our way, and even easier to blame God for every failure. But he's not to blame for it. The lyrics say lands, but I think it could also be worlds. I stand between heaven and earth wondering what I'm supposed to do, and yet the answer is also in the song. Leave yourself behind and get out of His way. If that's not ok with you, then have a mud pie.

Kind of a weird thing to say at the end, but I'm sure it's probably a Spanish (or Mexican) colloquialism or something. I'm sure they think our cliches are just as weird. I often doubt whether the voice I hear is God or not. His voice is referred to as a "still, small voice," but really, what is that? I know when I heard that the next song would be important, I wasn't thinking about anything, but trying only to listen. I can usually tell is my mind is running something or not, kind of like when your computer revs up, you know it's doing "something," but very often, I haven't know whether the voice was God or just me thinking about something. You can often tell when whatever you're pondering is worthwhile or true, but then there are other times when you can't know that until you do what it tells you to.

And that's the part that's really scary.