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Re: Moth lyrics

To: dantemm at erinet_com, over-the-rhine at actwin_com
Subject: Re: Moth lyrics
From: "Joshua M. Neds-Fox" <jnedsfox at moody_edu>
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 10:16:15 CDT
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19990504094310.007974d0 at mail_erinet.com>; from "Dan Temmesfeld" at May 04, 99 9:43 am

> on the ?-marked line, i think i hear the word FEAR in there, but i don't
> know... maybe "THERE'S NO SUFFERING, BUT WE FEAR THE LOSS."  but it's just
> a guess.

I've only heard it live, but I always thought the line was:

  "It's not suffering we fear, but loss."

> > ISAAC'S knife can cut away
> > All the poison. Yesterdays
> > All the anger, break it down
> > Into the ocean, let it drown
> 
> i'm pretty sure about that one, but have so idea what the significance of
> Isaac is.  but, then again, maybe i'm all mixed up.

Considering the other biblical allusions ("As far as east is from the
west," "...Jesus..."), I'd say this might be the knife Abraham weilded to
sacrifice his son, Isaac.

Just a thought,
jnf

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