Nick Cave and Dirty Three: Time Jesum Transeuntum X-Files Hidden Track - Best Audio

[lithiumm]

and instead of tending to their love they begin occupying themselves with material things such as cars and houses.They arrive at a point where they have nothing left to say to each other. Everything has gone wrong and is a mess, and the lyrical "I" realizes that he has neglected the message and has, in fact, let love pass him by, and now it will not return.

[mjmcnult]

Let it be noted that there were 111 likes before the first dislike.

[Majic490]

Further to that without 0 many other numbers would cease to exist... 

[eyewall41]

0 is also a number

[quietbassist]

@mjmcnult I do not wish to engage in a discussion about the existence or not of supernatural beings or theology. But how can a song that narrates an encounter with demons be atheistic? Specially when the demons are saying that Jesus won't return (a sentence that implies that he has been here before).

[nicktaxidermy]

@quietbassist well, if the demons are real, I would agree with you, but I think it's really all sort of a metaphor for the lessons the world teaches us, and how we forget them.

[OhPenSezMe]

Like finding a musical holy grail.

[OhPenSezMe]

Nothing better than this ..... can't stop listening .....

[WorshipInTruth]

@mjmcnult For your sake you better hope he is not coming back.

[366songs]

@mjmcnult Seems like a simplistic interpretation especially considering Nick Cave's religious outlook. See The Flesh Made Word.

[PhotoCher]

On the other hand, despite what a demon may say, The Jesus could well return for the next tournament play. "Nobody *u*ks with The Jesus. "

[hgg4]

@PhotoCher Judas did...

[PhotoCher]

If the Demons lied when they said Jesus does not return, is not so important to the story, IMHO. Certainly Demons aren't a reliable source. What I found fascinating is that when the storyteller returned to our world and lobotomized himself with consumerism and materialism and stopped thinking or speaking because the canaries (television) put him further to sleep. Yet somehow, maybe in one of those transcendent moments between life on L.Cohen's Boogie Street, he did recall the note from the demo

[best30min]

lose the message

lock your soul in cage

hold onto Jesus

know love

[saucyminx]

Omg I love this! I love Nick Cave! Why the hell can't I access it on my CD??!

[danakscully64]

I didn't know until about a year ago that this hidden track even existed. I only have 1 player that can access it. I wish computers could get to them.

[ManhunterMartian]

Songs in the Key of X - what a special album with a pure x-files atmosphere

[Rippsblack]

awsome tunage

[JoyGrenade]

What a shame that this track is inaccessible on every CD player I own.

[Rippsblack]

@JoyGrenade i know - same here... I know of no way of ripping it onto PC either from the x-files CD :(

[ewazdrzewa]

Nick is obviously well read. This is reference to St. Augustine's words.

[Architekton33]

@ewazdrzewa please elaborate. I would like to have a reference relating this to St. Augustine.

[inbred0232]

well fuck my eye! thats cave/dirty three!

my fingers are tarantulas and your mouths are rattle pythons!!!

see you in BNE 25th!!!

[luccaluccalucca]

Atheism in the name of God is an abandonment of all religious beliefs . . . giving up the attempt to make sense of the world in terms of any fixed idea or intellectual system. It is becoming again as a child and laying oneself open to reality as it is actually and directly felt, experiencing it without trying to categorize, identify or name it.

[raydeeohedchic]

Ok, just that sentence, "Atheism in the name of God" is completely nonsense. It makes no sense.

There is NO Atheism in the name of God. Atheism is freedom from dogma and belief in one of the thousands of gods we have come up with in the past few thousand years. EVERYONE is an atheist at some point. Most well known atheist are just one god further along. But unless you intend to believe in every god ever created, YOU are an atheist to someone else whose god you don't believe in.

[zaoseternal]

@raydeeohedchi

Actually, its completely right. We, ourselves, are "Gods". We are the center of our own universe. That being said, "God" your inner most self, is the point from where "God" would be pleased with you turning to atheism, for all religion not based upon the one true god, yourself, is fraud!

[Dilapsor]

One of the most haunting and heartbreaking songs ever recorded. This recording captures the respective "feels" of both the Dirty Three and Nick Cave perfectly.

[Patfettx]

if ure wondering how to get acces to this song via CD, you have to rewind right at the start of the cd. I love this song, the violin is just amazing.

[russycarps]

I believe that because the message came from Demons it is a lie. That Jesus WILL return and we must not be swayed by Demons

[xxtaxidermyxx]

at the end, he says "he does not return. he has not returned." this is a song about futility, not resurrection.

[mjmcnult]

Agreed. And if you listen to the tone of his voice, it is clear that it is a hopeless message rather than a hopeful one.

[Gravija01]

All the debates over it's meaning..but I can only think of one word to describe what I feel when I hear this particular piece: heartbroken.

It's beautiful..

[jancsipl]

First time I listen this piece Nick Cave,s -it is beautifull !

[wolfmann0005]

beutiful

[CalicoatMaker]

I'm of the belief (after studying usage of words, not just translations. Also studied ancient euphamisms, Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, even old scriptic Hebrew) that jesus isn't going to return again, he died and served his purpose. Coming again is useless and redundant. He didnt die for nothing back then (as the "second coming" belief hints at), he died then to rule for eternity and for redemption of his people, and to grant access to salvation for all others. And no, I'm not a Xtian any more.

[visionize]

For anyone wondering where to find this song: Its a hidden track off Songs In The Key Of X: Music From And Inspired By The X-Files

[Keljeck]

Actually, "Dread the passage of Jesus for he will not return" was a line repeated by monks in the Middle Ages.  It meant that when Jesus comes, you need to seek the chance.

Note that after the demons write the message, and he leaves the forest, he forgets the message. Settles down into a quiet suburban life, and realizes all too late.

Nick Cave may not be a conventional Christian, but he is far from Atheist. Listen to his lecture "The Flesh Made Word/The Secret Life of the Love Song."

[thunderyiannis]

I agree with dern9999,

"Dread the passage of Jesus, for he will not return."

those are the Deamon's words,

the massage is "Don't let the deamon fool you"

otherwise your life is gona be like the song's story.

[superrsonico]

que tema!!!!! increible, la verdad no tenia idea de este tema, no soy muy seguidor de nick cave!

[vandalissimus]

yo non save esplicar en espagnol ma esto grupo musical con nombre dirty three influenzo mucho nick cave e non solo

[TheLovelyCreature]

Love this...

[Tanatospsic]

God Is in the House :D

[helgajohn]

Thank you, beautiful and sad song