Are You goin' to Narnia?
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| Song by 2nd Chapter of Acts | ||
| From the album The Roar of Love | ||
| Genre | 70's Rock | |
| Song Length | 3:26 | |
| Record label | Navarre Corporation | |
| Producer | Buck Herring | |
| The Roar of Love Album Listing | ||
| The Roar of Love (Track 01) |
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The opening track for The Roar of Love, album by band 2nd Chapter of Acts, gives the listener in the first seconds a taste of a different music experience, with an intro that resembles a musical play, as if it's giving time for a title or credits to appear, a narration to be performed, or acting characters to be introduced.
[edit] Lyrics
Are you goin' to Narnia?
Take me along with you
To meet the Lion with the golden mane
And stare into His eyes of truth
I hear the ground gives living gold
And you can drink diamonds, I've been told
In Narnia
Are you goin' to Narnia?
Take me along with you
To meet the Lamb who is a Lion
I want to learn to love Him too
We'll sail the sea of lily white
And float on waters of living light
In Narnia
Oh Narnia, I can hear you call
I can hear it all
Deep inside of me
And oh, every part of me cries out
I want to shout
Let me go along with you
I want to go to Narnia
Narnia
[edit] Analysis
- I hear the ground gives living gold can be a reference to the first hours of Narnia, in which Aslan's song was still resounding on earth and life was abundant. When Uncle Andrew's gold coins fell into the ground, they grew into a golden tree. We could recall Bism as well, with its living gems and gold.
- And you can drink diamonds may refer to the end of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, where the water was as bright as diamonds, or to the Silver Chair, where diamonds are described as "alive" and juicy.
- To meet the Lamb who is a Lion
I want to learn to love Him too - here we see the first Christian aspect in the lyrics, for it takes the Lamb concept from the end of the Dawn Treader and taking it back to the Biblical concept.
- We'll sail the sea of lily white
And float on waters of living light - another reference to the end of The Dawn Treader.
- Oh Narnia, I can hear you call
I can hear it all
Deep inside of me
And oh, every part of me cries out
I want to shout
Let me go along with you
I want to go to Narnia - this last part flirts on the idea that the longing to go to Narnia is inside of us, almost as we are meant to go there. This recalls the theological concept of Imago Dei and maybe the Platonic Realism.
