Strangest Haze (new)

Strangest Haze (Behind the song)

Some days you wake up to a hazy day and sometimes it clears up to a beautiful day. But a Strangest Haze is something less natural and is more symbolic. Strangest Haze speaks of a changed world with no particular direction without color and the joy that was once experienced. The second verse lets one know the causes with the line, “people were walking in an individual way, selfishness was their aim”. Yes, a world with a Blaze of explosion but with no substance only focused on self.   Similar to those described in Jude 12,13, “waterless clouds carried here and there by the wind; fruitless trees in late autumn, having died twice and having been uprooted;   wild waves of the sea that cast up the foam of their own shame; stars with no set course, for which the blackest darkness stands reserved forever.” All active showy displays but no substance or direction.  The last verse of the song explains it when it speaks of the tarnished phrase that said “Love your ………but the words had been eaten away.” Throughout the sad history of humanity there may have been many Strangest Hazes but do we find ourselves in one at present, will the blues and greens fade into darkness. The words at 1 Thessalonians 5:3 are sobering, for they indicate that things WILL GET WORSE, ”Jehovah’s day is coming exactly as a thief in the night. Whenever it is that they are saying, “Peace and security!” then sudden destruction is to be instantly on them, just like birth pains on a pregnant woman, and they will by no means escape.” Could todays attempt at peace and security be what is referred to?  If so it will not be a lasting peace but more  like a strange negative haze.   It will be a  false peace like so many others without substance,  for sudden destruction and the pains on a pregnant woman are certainly  not a clear day  .HOWEVER INDIVIDUALLY it doesn’t have to be that way according to  Jerimiah 20:11 that states, “For I well know the thoughts that I am thinking toward you,’ declares Jehovah, ‘thoughts of peace, and not of calamity, to give you a future and a hope”.

LYRICS

STRANGEST HAZE

TODAY LIFE BEGAN IN THE STRANGEST HAZE

NOT WITH THE USUAL BLUES AND GREENS

AND PEOPLE WERE SINGING IN THE MOST UNUSUAL TONE

NOT WITH THE USUAL GLEE

TODAY I HEARD THE STRANGEST TALE

ABOUT PEOPLE WITHOUT FACES OR DREAMS

AND THE WORLD WAS SPINING IN A MOST UNUSUAL WAY

BUT NO ONE WAS ABLE TO SEE

THOUGH I AM NOT SO OLD, I M NOT SO YOUNG

STILL I VE SO PAINFULLY SEEN

JUST HOW CRUEL, THIS LIFE CAN BE

JUST HOW CRUEL IT CAN BE

TODAY THE LIGHT SHOWN A MOST EXTRAORDINARY BLAZE

BUT THE DETAILS AND EXPRESSIONS  WERE PLAIN

AND PEOPLE WERE WALKING IN AN INDIVIDUAL WAY

SELFISHNESS WAS THEIR AIM

TODAY I STUBLED UPON A TARNISHED PHRASE

SO I BRUHED THE DIRT AND GRIME AWAY

IT SAID LOVE YOUR ___

BUT THE WORDS HAD BEEN EATEN AWAY

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