(This song takes its title from a chapter of CS Lewis' book Miracles: a preliminary study)
Speak of men sitting on thrones in the sky
And zombies like that’s a guilty sentence
For people who may not have the words
But are very aware of the basic concepts
Talk of defences based on a turn of phrase
And allegories serve to backtrack to old thought
But the mental images they’ve called juvenile
Aren’t even the things the faithful care for
Horrid red things
In their heads
Try to tell me
Where I stand
Think pearly gates
Are everything
That’s not my faith
Just imagery
Caught in imagery, word-smithery
Thoughts of flowing beards and pearly gates
Thinking that this is the crux of doctrine
Let the metaphor replace the real thing
But that is the centre of nothing
And you’re dodging the issue completely
An exercise in futility
To critique based solely on imagery
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