Sinatra confidently belts out one man’s mission statement:
“… For what is a man; what has he got
If not himself then he has not
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels …”
On the surface, it sounds so powerful, defiant, in control. As humans, there’s something very attractive about that. Who doesn’t want to be in control?
In contrast, the second song seems to surrender all that need for control as the singer hears these words from God:
No wonder the first song had (and continues to have) a larger following. Besides being sung by “the Chairmen of the Board” himself, his song seems to promise the possibility of living a life centered on you and getting everything you want in return.
The second song invites the listener to abandon all those dreams so that God can replace them with even better ones. Today’s podcast is such a story. Dave, as he tells it, had the world by the tail – until God disrupted his dreams.
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