Music Monday: Thrice and the Sands of Time
Back in the days of “the myspace” I had a roommate who was in a hard core band and a significant number of friends on myspace I met at his concerts or through another friend who went to a lot of evangelism conferences and such. I still remember when one of them messaged me and said, “You’ll really like this album by Thrice.” She was right. I’ve loved this album for a decade. My favorite song on it probably changes from year to year, but Of Dust and Nations is fantastic. The main theme is the sands of time continue to trickle through the hourglass of history and that anything that isn’t eternal that we put our trust in will be destroyed by time.
The writer is a bit of a Christian-Platonist (this isn’t a bad thing, so was C.S. Lewis), and this can be seen in the line, “We live in but a shadow of the real.” Do enjoy the song and read the lyrics below:
the towers that shoulder your pride the words you’ve written in stone sand will cover them, sand will cover you the streets that suffer your name your very flesh and your bones sand will cover them, sand will cover you
so put your faith in more than steel don’t store your treasures up, with moth and rust where thieves break in and steal pull the fangs from out your heel we live in but a shadow of the real
step out from time, see the dust of nations step out from time, hear the stars ovation
Saturn will not sleep, until the sand has made us clean still we stack our stones and bury what we can but it all will be undone, and nothing built under the sun will ever stand before the endless march of sand
so put your faith in more than steel don’t store your treasures up, with moth and rust where thieves break in and steal pull the fangs from out your heel we live in but a shadow of the real
so put your faith in more than steel don’t store your treasures up, with moth and rust where thieves break in and steal pull the fangs from out your heel we live in but a shadow of the real