Meanings

When knowledge  and our rituals are thin
The usual symbols’ meanings  seem all gone
Who will show us how to live again?

The emphasis was overtly on sin
The mighty were exempted every one
Now knowledge  and our rituals are thin

As the song says, don’t know where  or,  Oh Lord, when
The breath of angels’  staggers the rich man.
Who will show us how to live and when?

Uneasy murmurs through our conscience run.
Anaesthetics now our medium
Knowledge  and our rituals are thin

Like  swarm of bees, archangels pass the sun
Unseeing, we deceive with tedium
Who will show us how to live again?

Power replaces insight with  a gun
Shoot as if the end’s already come
When knowledge  and our rituals are thin
Who might show us how to live again?