With All Your Power
Ha! Funny story. Can’t embed this week because the artist disabled it. Ha.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeahIf you could blow up the world with the flick of a switch
Would you do it? (Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya)
If you could make everybody poor just so you could be rich
Would you do it? (Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya)
If you could watch everybody work while you just lay on your back
Would you do it? (Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya)
If you could take all the love without giving any back
Would you do it? (Ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya, ya)And so we cannot know ourselves
Or what we’d really do
With all your power
With all your power
With all your power
What would you do?With all your power
With all your power
With all your power
What would you do?If you could make your own money and then give it to everybody
Would you do it? (No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no)
If you knew all the answers and could give to the masses
Would you do it? (No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no)Are you crazy?
It’s a very dangerous thing to do exactly what you want
Because you cannot know yourself, or what you’d really doWith all your power
With all your power
With all your power
What would you do?
This is another great example of a non-Christian song that can teach us something. At first, the lyrics seem quite clear. Everyone is inherently greedy, and given the opportunity, we would probably keep everything we have to ourselves. But as we saw in the case of Ananias and Sepphira, that isn’t always the best idea. The best course of action is to understand what you are weak to, and work in those areas.
But there is, of course, another meaning. All of us like to complain. We love to say what we would do “if given half the opportunity”, but we really have no idea what we would do under such pressure. No offense to our President, but many of the things he said he would do in office have simply not happened- it’s impossible to tell what could happen to us, or what we would do if we had the power to change things.