Brompton Oratory
Yearning Amidst Sacred Stone: Brompton Oratory Essence
Lyrics
Up those stone steps I climb
Symbolic ascent, possibly spiritual, climbing stone steps.
Hail this joyful day's return
Celebrating the return of a joyful day.
Into its great shadowed vault I go
Entering a large, shadowed space or emotional state.
Hail the Pentecostal morn
Celebrating Pentecost, a Christian festival.
The reading is from Luke 24
Referencing a passage from the Bible (Luke 24).
Where Christ returns to his loved ones
Christ's return to loved ones, possibly a parallel to personal longing.
I look at the stone apostles
Observing stone apostles, perhaps expressing envy or detachment.
Think that it's alright for some
Reflecting on the ease of others, feeling it's unfair.
And I wish that I was made of stone
Expressing a desire to be emotionless like stone.
So that I would not have to see
Wishing to avoid witnessing an indescribable beauty.
A beauty impossible to define
Referring to an awe-inspiring, unattainable beauty.
A beauty impossible to believe
Highlighting the difficulty in believing such beauty exists.
A beauty impossible to endure
Emphasizing the overwhelming and unbearable nature of the beauty.
The blood imparted in little sips
Describing the intimate exchange of blood or emotions.
The smell of you still on my hands
Sensory memory of the person, indicated by the lingering smell.
As I bring the cup up to my lips
Symbolic act of consuming the memories or essence.
No God up in the sky
Rejecting traditional notions of God and devil.
And no devil beneath the sea
Acknowledging the extraordinary impact of a person.
Could do the job that you did, baby
Attributing a profound effect on the speaker's life to the person.
Of bringing me to my knees
Expressing vulnerability and submission due to the person's influence.
Outside I sit on the stone steps
Moving outside, possibly a shift in emotional state.
With nothing much to do
Feeling idle and purposeless without the person.
Forlorn and exhausted, baby
Conveying a sense of loneliness and fatigue.
By the absence of you
Expressing a deep sense of loss in the person's absence.
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