As has been discussed here for years, the best secular, non-liturgical music is that which can be heard as either God singing to man, or man singing to God.
Just reiterating – this is music for OUTSIDE the liturgy – OUTSIDE the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the Divine Office.
Here’s one! A really good one, too!
“To Make You Feel My Love”, originally penned by Bob Dylan, but covered to great effect by my so-not-favorite country singer, in fact, the man who ATE country music… Garth Brooks. Yeah. I know.
Anyway, if you read the lyrics as God singing to mankind, and disregard the whole Garth Brooks qua Garth Brooks thing, it will make you cry. I have added a couple of suggestive motifs below, in red brackets.
When the rain’s blowing in your face
And the whole world is on your case [worldly and demonic persecution]
I would offer you a warm embrace [Confession and Eucharist]
To make you feel My Love
When the evening shadows and the stars appear [demons and their human allies and mercenaries]
And there is no one to dry your tears [because sweetie, there probably ain’t gonna be]
I could hold you for a million years
To make you feel My Love
I know you haven’t made your mind up yet [Because you have free will]
But I would never do you wrong [The Law]
I’ve known it from the moment that we met [When I created you and sewed you together in your mother’s womb]
There’s no doubt in My Mind where you belong [With Me, in heaven, forever]
I’d go hungry, I’d go black and blue [the Scourging at the Pillar]
I’d go crawling down the avenue [The Way of the Cross to Calvary]
There ain’t nothing that I wouldn’t do
To make you feel My Love
The storms are raging on a rollin’ sea
Down on the highway of regret [Sin]
The winds of change are blowing wild and free [Heretics, Antipope Bergoglio…]
But you ain’t seen nothing like Me yet [Come, Eternal and Unchanging Lord Jesus]
There ain’t nothing that I wouldn’t do [Humiliation, torture, execution, withstand sacrilege]
Go to the ends of the earth for you [Incarnation leading to Calvary, and then the Eucharist, the Real Presence in the Eucharist all over the earth in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass]
Make you happy, make your dreams come true [We can’t even begin to imagine…]
To make you feel My…….. Love [I’m in. You had me at “Hello.”]
