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The lyrics were written by a young Lene Lovich, though she was not credited. [2] The song features an environmental theme, imagining a future where the use of artificial chemicals in agriculture has caused "creatures down below" to emerge and "take their sweet revenge" against mankind.
In the final stanza, he goes on to compare the poets to the birds — exiled from the skies and then weighed down by their giant wings, till death. Herman Melville's Moby-Dick alludes to Coleridge's albatross. [2] In his poem Snake, published in Birds, Beasts and Flowers, D. H. Lawrence mentions the albatross in Ancient Mariner.
In the verses, sounds from nature are contrasted with man-made sounds, particularly in lines such as "The morning breeze like a bugle blew," "The crashin' waves like cymbals clashed," "The cryin' rain like a trumpet sang," "The branches bare like a banjo moaned" and "The water smooth ran like a hymn."
The Way Down is an American documentary television miniseries directed and produced by Marina Zenovich. It follows Gwen Shamblin Lara , the founder of a diet program Weigh Down Workshop , and Remnant Fellowship , a new Christian group led by Shamblin Lara and located in Brentwood, Tennessee.
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The first known depiction of literal weighing of souls in Christianity is from the 2nd century Testament of Abraham. [10] Archangel Michael is the one who is most commonly shown weighing the souls of people on scales on Judgement Day. [9] This depiction began to show up in early Christianity, but is not mentioned in the Bible. [9]
Arthur Jones, a music history professor and founder of the Spiritual Project at the University of Denver, told the New York Times in 2017 that Swing Low should be used to tell the horrors of ...
Shamblin published The Weigh Down Diet, a book that advised readers to use spirituality to avoid overeating, in 1997. The book sold more than 1.2 million copies. [36] [37] [38] The Weigh Down Diet teaches the love of food should be transferred to a love of God, and to cut food portions in half and eat only when hungry. [39]