Sweet Chariot

Anyone who knows me pretty well will know that I have a passion for music. And more specifically, I have a passion for the words of songs. I think that there is some serious poetry in music now-a-days (and long ago for that matter) and it can be found if one looks. So, I'm a fan of Charlotte Martin. I don't have any of her stuff but I love it a ton. I heard one of the most beautiful songs, by her, tonight. It's called "Sweet Chariot". Interpreting music is sometimes easy when the meaning is just plain obvious. There are some beautiful songs where the message in the song is obvious: "I love the Lord", "My boyfriend sucks", "I hate life", etc. But some, like this one, the perspective is subjective and it can be interpreted more than one way. I LOVE those types of songs. :)
It was only after about the 3rd time listening to this song tonight and reading the words that I really saw how this song could be interpreted differently than Charlotte probably intended. The lyrics are below. Read them and see what you think, then I'll tell you what I think. The song is REALLY worth listening to if you have the chance, it has a beautiful piano accompaniment and BEAUTIFUL vocal line. :D Anywoo, here are the words: (the red is my interpretation)

Ode to joy, my lover boy's speaking in tongues
And the sky's bleeding gray
Now I pull my bag o' prayers out
I hope to find one to save the day
("lover boy" is speaking of the false lovers we run after. When we arn't satisfied with that anymore we pull out of our bag of prayers one that we hope will save the day.)

And he judged my love, my lust
My taste with the straightest face
As I crumple up inside
A papier-mache, a shell with no name
(We are left broken and feeling like nothing because these false gods, the Enemy in disguise has left us feeling like a papier-mache, a shell with no name.)

Sweet chariot
Come, come, take me away from my fear
Sweet chariot
Come, I have to get out of here
(In other words: O God! Come, come take me away from my fear, sweet chariot I have to get out of here!)

And he took me further than I wanted to go
Underneath his shoe
And it leaves me hungry for a touch I can't feel
A touch he won't do
(In other words: I did more than I should have, and all I feel now is hungry for something I can't feel, the false god, the Enemy, has left me all alone with nothing.)

And I thought the circle, it had an end
I'm old enough to know
My denial is how we began and how we will end
And now that I know
(In other words: I thought I could get out of this but now I see my nievite and my denial is how it all began and now how it's ending, but now that I know...)

Sweet chariot
Come, come, take me away from my fear
Sweet chariot
Come, I have to get out of here

Oh, the blood that's in my veins
So cold and frozen from the stings
Oh, he comes and goes in waves
Am I really here?
(In other words: I've grown cold from all the stings and temptation still attacks me at times. "Am I really here?" Is this reality. Where am I?!)

Sweet chariot
Come, come, take me away from my fear
Sweet chariot
Can we leave him a trail of my tears?
(In other words: save me, be my hero and show em' I'm not his anymore!)
Sweet chariot
It's been, it's been the longest of years
Sweet chariot
Come, I have to get out of here
(In other words: It's been a long year, oh take me away...)

Now, that may not have been what Charlotte Martin meant to say through the song, but it certainly could be interpreted that way and man, it certainly has a strong and powerful message behind it when you see it like that! :)