Saturday, February 22, 2014

KLEM FM


Remember that song? It was a one hit wonder for Zager and Evans in 1969. An odd mariachi musically introduces the storyline before the lyrics arrange a sort of a rhyming chronology of centuries cast further and further into the future. The song culminates:
Now it's been ten thousand years, man has cried a billion tears
For what, he never knew, now man's reign is through
But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight
So very far away, maybe it's only yesterday
And so the future reflects backwards to yesterday. This is done either with rhetorical mirrors or is an ouroboros cycle. Pick your symmetry element. What's intriguing about the lyrics is the idea that mankind is God's scientific "experiment"; human free will still exists long into the future and a Dr. God comes around periodically to check the results of his timed experiment.

But why is God only present at the beginning and the end in such apocrypha?  It seems parenthetical -- like alpha and omega -- while we live here between parens.

3 comments:

deborah said...

That's a great stanza.

Love this esp., "But through eternal night, the twinkling of starlight"

As far as God being absent in the middle, the stanza notes that Man's reign is through.

'Night.

The Dude said...

Many now live in their parens' basement.

Trooper York said...

Love that new tag. Ha,ha,ha.