life is full of seasons, and ultimately the eternal is what matters. Including every secret thing, whether good or evil.īasically, stuff means nothing. Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: there is a season for everything.Īfter that he comes to his conclusion and I think this is the meaning ultimately of these words. He had it all and his conclusion? It's all meaningless. The Queen of Sheba came traveled to see him with gold and gems to give him in exchange for his wisdom. He was recognized through life as the wisest man of his time. He goes on to list all the things he's had and tried, the 1000 wives and concubines, all the riches he could want.fame, knowledge, wisdom. The Byrds 1965 Turn Turn Turn (To Everything There Is a Season). "Meaningless, meaningless, all is meaningless!" He says (or futile in other translations. Solomon was talking about how all of life is futile, prior to this writing. Written over 3000 years ago, by King Solomon, if you really want to know the meaning, you need to look at the words in context. Peace hasn't quite had its season yet, but it's day will come, hopefully soon. There's more hate than love in the world, but love is stronger than hate, and hopefully it will prevail.Īll the little lessons we learn in kinderegarten about compromise and getting along are lost on the way to adulthood for most people, and I just hope that there are people who still want peace. Love wouldn't be so important to find if there wasn't hate. The Byrds took this gentle yet powerful song of social unrest and created one of the. We shouldn't love or embrace evil, so we should hate it. Turn was a Pete Seeger creation taken from the book of Ecclesiastes. Someone above me said that Jesus wouldn't say there is a designated season for hate. So, even though there's war and hatred, maybe peace is somewhere around the corner.Īnyone else find it ironic that this is the song with the most comments, and there are only twenty of them (not including this one or future comments) and yet there are horrible songs by other artists that aree just plain crap, yet they have hundreds of comments? It doesn't stop for anyone, and you havev to go through the bad stuff for the good stuff. This song is based off of the bible, but even without getting religion invovlved, it's just saying, there are good times, and there are bad times, but life keeps turning. I also thing it's a tieme for peace, so don't insult people on a song that's about getting along.
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