31 January 2020

(SMS) Dawes - Crack The Case


[Verse 1]
I will do your interview
Try to explain what I'm going through
Give you something to read into
In a million different ways
A sick version of telephone
Starts at the clip of the microphone
A game we thought we had all outgrown
But still everybody plays

[Chorus 1]
Ignoring all of the remedies
Believing all of the rumors
With their endless database
I wanna sit with my enemies
And say, "We should have done this sooner"
While I look them in the face
Maybe that will crack the case

[Verse 2]
I got a friend who's been thinking 'bout
Finally kicking her husband out
His second life as a talent scout
Finally got him caught
While she was throwing out all his clothes
She heard a voice from beyond the throes
"Punish him for the life he chose
But forgive the past that he did not"

[Chorus 2]
It's really hard to hate anyone
When you know what they've lived through
And once they've given you a taste
She said, "This is for you to overcome
But I will always love you"
In her perfect state of grace
Maybe that will crack the case

[Verse 3]
Now that we're through with formalities
What is it you wanna ask of me?
I'll answer open and honestly
Whatever that means
Finding out that we occupy
Somebody else's opposing side
On the banks of some great divide
Two versions of a dream

[Chorus 3]
Countless revisions of history
Tryin' to tell us the future
Between each commercial break
I wanna call off the cavalry
Declare no winners or losers
And forgive our shared mistakes
You can pick the time and place
Maybe that will crack the case



Some time ago I've asked some suggestions to talk about on Construindo Uma Memória's Instagram (the English version of the blog is Building A Memory, but the Instagram and Facebook have the Portuguese name). My cousin and this blog's proof-reader, Vinícius Duarte, gave me not one nor two but about five suggestions. I'm interchanging them and, finally, time to attend one more.

All the songs he's suggested have a deep meaning. It often gets me on what I'm feeling or lived recently. I can see the main focus on this song is, once again, about forgiving. Check it out on the blog the K7 #003 (playlist)Warrior (Demi Lovato)Summer of Darkness (Demon Hunter), and Forgiveness (Joey Landreth), they all talk about this subject in their way.

Our world is full of people bragging their achievements and proving how themselves are the best in the world. They're drowning in their ego. But that isn't how we're supposed to live. We live in a community that have other beings with feelings, emotions, desires, dreams, opinions and even delusions, as we have our own as well.

I like when the pastor of the church I go says that when one forgives the most benefited in this process is the one who has forgiven because you're taking off that weight you were carrying. If who receives the forgiveness doesn't forgive, it's up to him or her.

Gossip. Probably you made some or were the victim of it, just like the game "telephone" that is mentioned in the first verse. As the story goes from one to one, in the end, the message is confusing nonsense. How about stop playing this game and, as Psalms 23:5 suggests, sit with your enemies, setting the table and finish all these problems? That is what Jesus taught: forgive those who trespass against us. Not an easy task, but the results are worth.

Are you ready to crack the case? We all commit mistakes and deserve our punishment for it because, somehow, we acted consciously. But our past, what shaped who we are, we didn't have an option, though we can transform the way things go. Don't hesitate and be the change. Be the one to start forgiving!




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