Light On Dark Water

I’ve had in mind for a long time to write something of greater-than-blog-post length on this topic, but in case I never get around to it I’ll make the point briefly now. John Paul II has said that some artists do us a favor by showing us what the world without God is like. Few better examples could be found than Tom Waits. His work is filled with the anguish of one who knows what’s missing. Even some Waits fans may not like the song in the clip below (I do), but whether or not you like the music, consider words like these:

Since you’re gone
deep inside it hurts
I’m just another sad guest
on this dark earth

I want to believe
in the mercy of the world again
Make it rain, make it rain

I’m close to heaven
Crushed at the gate
They sharpen their knives
on my mistakes

But of course the world has no mercy, or forgiveness for the mistakes on which the knives are being sharpened. You have to look elsewhere for those. There’s only one place from which the rain for which he cries can come.

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