I still remember
the day I saw that stories were about more than events, but ideas, characters, and
truth. This discovery didn't extend into music until recently. Could there be
an equivalent of great literature in music? I watched the ideas. Andrew
Peterson’s Light for the Lost Boy
takes on the loss of innocence, and ultimate redemption. Matthew Perryman
Jones’s impossibly good Land of the Living is so complex I still haven’t figured it all out, but dabbles in
sin, death, grief, and redemption. I leapt into the stimulating world of ideas
and their expression through music and poetic metaphor.
Sara Groves’s Invisible Empires is a first, though.
She takes on ideas, all right, but ones that you generally wouldn’t find in
music and certainly not in the mainstream CCM. Ideas like: bio-ethics,
escapism, current politically correct ideology, the pressure to conform to
society’s ideal, and death. It sounds more like science fiction topics.
