Wide Eyed
Revelations on 16th Avenue: Unveiling Life's Disguises
Lyrics
When I met him on a sidewalk
Encounter with an individual on a sidewalk
He was preaching to a mailbox
He was passionately delivering a message to an inanimate object
Down on 16th Avenue
Location reference: 16th Avenue
And he told me he was Jesus
Claimed to be Jesus, sent to liberate from Jupiter
Sent from Jupiter to free us
Carrying a bottle of tequila and wearing one shoe
With a bottle of tequila and one shoe
Expressing a message about repentance and impending end times
He raged about repentance
Passionate discourse about repentance
He finished every sentence
Every sentence ended with a warning about the imminent end
With a promise that the end was close at hand
The narrator did not attempt to comprehend the message
I didn't even try to understand
He left me wide eyed in disbelief and disillusion
The encounter left the narrator in shock and disbelief
I was tongue tied, drawn by my conclusions
Unable to speak, influenced by personal conclusions
So I turned and walked away
Chose to walk away from the situation
And laughed at what he had to say
Laughed at the speaker's words
Then casually dismissed him as a fraud
Casually dismissed the person as a fraud
I forgot he was created in the image of my God
Realized the person was also created in the image of God
When I met her in a bookstore
Encounter with a woman in a bookstore
She was browsing on the first floor
Browsing a yoga magazine on the first floor
Through a yoga magazine
And she told me in her past life
Claims to have been a plantation slave's wife in a past life
She was some plantation slave's wife
Reflecting on the meaning of that past life
She had to figure out what that might mean
Trying to understand the implications
She believes the healing powers of her crystals
Believes in the healing powers of crystals for life balance
Can bring balance and new purpose to her life
Crystals are seen as a source of new purpose in her life
Sounds nice
Narrator acknowledges the attractiveness of the idea
She left me wide eyed in disbelief and disillusion
Similar experience with astonishment and disillusionment
I was tongue tied, drawn by my conclusions
Unable to speak, influenced by personal conclusions
So I turned and walked away
Chose to walk away from the situation
And laughed at what she had to say
Laughed at the speaker's words
Then casually dismissed her as a fraud
Casually dismissed the person as a fraud
I forgot she was created in the image of my God
Realized the person was also created in the image of God
Not so long ago, a man from Galilee
Reference to Jesus' actions in Galilee
Fed thousands with His bread and His theology
Performed miracles and shared theological teachings
And the truth He spoke, quickly became the joke of educated
The truth spoken became a joke to educated Pharisees
Self-inflated Pharisees like me
Reflecting on the narrator's own self-righteousness
And they were wide eyed in disbelief and disillusion
Similar experience of astonishment and disillusionment for others
They were tongue tied, drawn by their conclusions
Unable to speak, influenced by personal conclusions
Would I have turned and walked away
Contemplating the narrator's potential reaction in a similar situation
And laughed at what He had to say
Laughed at the speaker's words
And casually dismissed Him as a fraud
Casually dismissed the person as a fraud
Unaware that I was staring at the image of my God
Realized the person was also created in the image of God
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