04-05-2025, 09:07 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-05-2025, 10:26 PM by RiverNotch.)
((my entry is maybe a little tangential---i was thinking about what sort of program would say "i know that you've been feeling tired, i bring you love, etc", which led me to an entirely different song...))
Listening to this song from the aughts,
I misremembered. "Come
to me, you heavy laden, come,
and I will give you rest":
I thought it quoted Lazarus
of brazen giant fame,
but then a friend reminded me
it's Matthew's book instead,
insisting that it had some kind
of hidden goal, in cutting out
a crucial phrase, "all ye that labour",
as if the country where he lived
permitted anyone to live
if, by an ail, they could not labour.
Listening to this song from the aughts,
I misremembered. "Come
to me, you heavy laden, come,
and I will give you rest":
I thought it quoted Lazarus
of brazen giant fame,
but then a friend reminded me
it's Matthew's book instead,
insisting that it had some kind
of hidden goal, in cutting out
a crucial phrase, "all ye that labour",
as if the country where he lived
permitted anyone to live
if, by an ail, they could not labour.