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Refugee
I'm sure we've all heard the interpretation of "One". How it could be about the HIV afflicted gay son trying to patch up things with his disapproving father. The lyrics could have a number of different interpretations, but these select lines certainly correlate with the father/son theme:
You say love is a temple. Love the higher law.
This could be the son ridiculing his father for his stubborn ways. His father believes in God, and believes homosexuality is wrong. The son is trying to get through to him on a human level, but the father can't get past his own beliefs. The father believes the "higher law", which can mean God, frowns upon the son's lifestyle. God decides what is right and wrong, and the father can't get past God's laws against homosexuality. Therefore, the father can't bring himself to truly love his son based on God's laws. The higher law decides his son has strayed from love through his actions and won't be forgiven unless he changes his ways.
It could also be from the father's POV. He could be trying to digest his son's beliefs that the "higher law" is something beyond God, something that dishes out unconditional love, to anyone no matter what they have done.
You ask me to enter but then you make me crawl.
Maybe it's the father shamefully coming to terms with his son, and maybe it's the other way around. Maybe it's both.
Anywayz, what ya'll think?
You say love is a temple. Love the higher law.
This could be the son ridiculing his father for his stubborn ways. His father believes in God, and believes homosexuality is wrong. The son is trying to get through to him on a human level, but the father can't get past his own beliefs. The father believes the "higher law", which can mean God, frowns upon the son's lifestyle. God decides what is right and wrong, and the father can't get past God's laws against homosexuality. Therefore, the father can't bring himself to truly love his son based on God's laws. The higher law decides his son has strayed from love through his actions and won't be forgiven unless he changes his ways.
It could also be from the father's POV. He could be trying to digest his son's beliefs that the "higher law" is something beyond God, something that dishes out unconditional love, to anyone no matter what they have done.
You ask me to enter but then you make me crawl.
Maybe it's the father shamefully coming to terms with his son, and maybe it's the other way around. Maybe it's both.
Anywayz, what ya'll think?