The Vague Christianity of Folk Rock

The song “There Will Be Time” from Mumford and Sons' latest album, “Johannesburg,” ends with the lines: “In the cold light, I live to love and adore you/ It's all that I am, it's all that I have/ Why do I keep falling?/ Why do I keep falling?”

For a Christian, the one “loved and adored” could be seen as God and “falling” a reference to man falling from grace. In the cold light we try and we fail, we try to be perfect but continue to sin.

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