If life is an accident, does MY existence have any significance at all? If mortal life is all there is, and my life only matters if it influences the course of future events, how do I know those future events matter? Does anything at all have any significance whatsoever outside of the Divine? Moreover, can scientific fact disprove the existence of a being who must necessarily exist beyond the realm of the scientifically testable?

’cause if you’re not really here
then the stars don’t even matter
now i’m filled to the top with fear
but it’s all just a bunch of matter

If this feeling of “something beyond them” is nothing more than an illusion, then do I even have free will? If there is no God, I have no soul, and am no more than “just bunch of matter.” “Just a bunch of matter” is controlled only by it’s previous state of being, it’s every change and action determined from the first instant of the Big Bang, therefore free will is no more than a cruel trick. But what is cruelty? By who’s standard is it judged? Is consensus of opinion the only source of Moral Law, barring a Divine Standard? Can there be ANY morality AT ALL under such circumstances? Why should Mankind’s collective morality be regarded as sacred? What is Mankind but “just a bunch of matter”? There can be NO MORALITY barring the existence of Deity.

And finally, the great grieving, driving conclusion: isn’t nonbeing preferable to such a pathetic shell of an existence? After all, what is existence? What am I but a particular arrangement of “a bunch of matter” that shall continue to change and evolve. If consciousness is nothing but an intermittent state between Oblivion and Oblivion, why not hasten that final, empty state of nonbeing, and speed the dominion of the only force worthy of worship, barring God Himself: Entropy the All-Devouring, the Force that ultimately foils all of mankind’s grand schemes. (rhetorical)

Each question flowing from the next, if ONLY people would stop long enough to THINK! Forgive me, I digress.

Overall, an absolutely ASTOUNDING piece of work. I only wish that more people struggled with these greatest of questions, gained a little perspective on existence, and gained Hope that these is something more, Someone more to everything that we understand and wonder about. Gay or not, and no matter where he is in his (or isn’t) in his faith walk, Sam Sparro has earned a great deal of respect from me, and may God bless him richly in his search for answers.

tl;dr version:
Good song, big questions, such as many found here:
http://www.reasonablefaith.org
God bless you all.

As for his music, it is very much influenced by soul and gospel and jazz, on top of the disco, funk and electronica. It’s a great sound!

Above you mention the resemblance between the dove in the logo and the bird in sam’s name on the CD cover. Now, obviously no-one can prove it, but i would be inclined to say that that would be more likely to be a sparrow (because of the name) rather than a dove.

Good research though, I see what may have led you to consider that. But yea, that’s my opinion. sparrow not dove.

“And then of course there’s the line that hangs in the air like a giant white question-mark-shaped cloud: If vision is the only validation, then most of my life isn’t real. Yikes. Does this mean that because Sparro is unable to see God himself, he is unable to validate his beliefs? And that he considers God, or the idea of God, to be most of his life?”

Yea ok, good reasoning, but i see that to mean that whist people say that seeing is believing, if that were true then most of my life wouldn’t be real, as opposed to he can’t see god.

And VERY quickly in reference to the gay thing, yea, so he’s gay, yea so being gay is a sin but it’s no worse than any other sin, the bible’s quite clear on that, it makes him no less of a christian that you or I. what makes the difference is what he chooses to do with that. some people are genetically gay, we live in a fallen world, these things happen, but he can either ignore that and stay clean as it were or he can choose to follow that and satisfy his desires by actually having a relationship with another man.

Feel free to argue with me, but I’m in the least arrogant way intended, i am very sure that I’m right.

God Bless