Leonard Cohen describes the reason people like melancholy songs, and, incidentally, offers as good a description of the Christian understanding of the human condition as we are likely to see:
"Everybody has experienced the defeat of their lives. Nobody has a life that worked out the way they wanted it to work out. We all begin as the hero of our own dramas, in centre stage, and inevitably life moves us out of centre stage, defeats the hero, overturns the plot and the strategy and we’re left on the sidelines, wondering why we no longer have a part, or want a part, in the whole damn thing."
[Via The Confessing Evangelical.]
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