Apparently I wasn’t paying attention as a teenager. I’ve been rediscovering some stuff I used to listen to and was struck by the song “La Sagrada Familia” by the Alan Parsons Project. The title refers to the cathedral by that name designed and constructed by Antoni Gaudi in the 19th century though it is still incomplete (though I guess there are plans to ‘remedy’ that). The last verse:
Who knows where the road may lead us, only a fool would say
Who knows what’s been lost along the way
Look for the promised land in all of the dreams we share
How will we know when we are there? how will we know?
Only a fool would say
The unfinished cathedral as a symbol of a person’s journey through life struck me as profound.
Almost anything by Switchfoot gets me thinking.