“There You Go” by Caedmon’s Call
Is this the strange feeling of you
Working all for good
Cuz I am so confused
I don’t even ask for what I should
When I asked for a deserved stone
You broke and gave your body as bread
And even the stone dropped down
And rolled away, spoke of the one who bledThere you go working good from my bad
There you go making robes from my rags
There you go melting crowns from my calves
There you go working good of all I have
Cuz what I have is not that badWhen I ask for a deserved serpent
You gave a net full of fish
Even the serpent that told the lie
When lifted high foretold the giftThere you go working good from my bad
There you go making robes from my rags
There you go melting crowns from my calves
There you go working good of all I have
Cuz what I have is not that badFor you so loved the unlovable
That you gave the ineffable
That who so believes the unbelievable
Will attain the unattainableThere you go working good from my bad
There you go making robes from my rags
There you go melting crowns from my calves
There you go working good of all I haveThere you go
There you go
There you go
There you go
Cuz what I have is not that bad
It’s not that bad
Dear God, I thought I’d never get this one started. I had the hardest time getting the formatting of the lyrics correct.
I think I’m going to start a series on most of the songs from Caedmon’s Call’s 40 Acres album. The songwriting is very poetic.
This is the first song and the references to scripture are all over it. I wonder if a lot of Christians who are not as familiar with the Bible would miss them. Probably.
Let’s see what kinds of scripture references we can figure out for this one:
Is this the strange feeling of you working all for good?
Romans 8:28 – And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
When I asked for a deserved stone you broke and gave your body as bread
Matthew 7:9 – “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone?”
Matthew 26:26 – “While they were eating, Jesus took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is my body.”
Matthew 27:50-51a – And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit. At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom.
And even the stone dropped down and rolled away spoke of the one who bled
I’m actually not sure what this is referencing. Judges 9 when a woman drops a stone on Abimelek? I don’t know. Obviously, a stone was rolled away at the tomb when Jesus was resurrected, but I’m not sure what they are referencing here.
When I asked for a deserved serpent you gave a net full of fish
Matthew 7:10 – Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
Even the serpent that told the lie, when lifted high foretold the gift
Genesis 3:4-5 – “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Numbers 21:9 – So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.
John 3:14 – “Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.”
For you so loved the unlovable that you gave the ineffable. That who believes the unbelievable can attain the unattainable.
John 3:16 – “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
Romans 6:23 – For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
There you go working good from my bad.
Romans 8:28 – And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.
There you go making robes from my rags
Isaiah 64:6a – All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags.
Matthew 6:28-30 – “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow? They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clotes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you–you of little faith?”
There you go making crowns from my calves
Exodus 32:1,4,19-20 – When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, “Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don’t know what has happened to him…He took what they handed him and made it into an idol cast in the shape of a calf, fashioning it with a tool. Then they said, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of Egypt.”…When Moses approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, his anger burned and he threw the tablets out of his hands, breaking them to pieces at the foot of the mountain. And he took the calf the people had made and burned it in the fire; then he ground it to powder, scattered it on the water and made the Israelites drink it.
1 Corinthians 9:25 – Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.
Father, I think it all circles back to the first line of the song:
Is this the strange feeling of you working all for good? Cuz I am so confused, I don’t even ask for what I should.
My eyes can lie to me. My intuition and intellect are foolish. My comprehension is short-sighted and shallow. So I can look around and see things I don’t like, but I will 1.) try to see what you are actually doing that maybe I’ve missed, and 2.) simply have faith that there are things I cannot see that are part of your plan. And maybe I’ll never see the good or understand your plan on this side of life. That’s okay. I trust you. I believe these scriptures. I believe Jesus. I believe your Holy Spirit. I believe you.
In Jesus’s name I pray,
Amen
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