The Byrds had an amazing, iconic Vietnam-era hit with this beautifully melodic and gentle song with lyrics based upon the biblical scripture of Ecclesiastes. Roger McGwinn's signature twelve-string folksy-rock guitar sound was a classic example of the folk style used by the New Seekers, Paul Mauriat ("Love Is Blue"), Cyrkle ("Red Rubber Ball"), Peter And Gordon, Chad And Jeremy, and a whole cluster of great music performed by the Turtles prior to their evolution (?) into Flo and Eddie in later years.
This performance is eloquent in its recital of biblical verse and tender understatement of the way that the world turns and life is lived, generation after generation.
It is a well-crafted, well-intended work of 1960s protest folk-rock, and is incredibly revelatory as well as it is calming. This video, done as part of a World Geography class project by a young woman named Manta is stunning! I compliment her on her wonderful work, and I thank her for sharing it on YouTube.
I hope you enjoy it. Just click as often as necessary. Let it wash over you like a cleansing wave of renewal, redemption and rebirth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHvf20Y6eoM
Scriptural Lyrics...
Ecclesiastes 3:1-15 NIV
A Time for Everything
3 There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
9 What do workers gain from their toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[a] no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God.
14 I
know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added
to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear
him.
15 Whatever is has already been,
and what will be has been before;
and God will call the past to account.[b]
and what will be has been before;
and God will call the past to account.[b]
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