It is no secret that I absolutely love this movie.
If you haven't seen "The Greatest Showman" stop right this very second and go watch it--if you don't like it--well, I'm not sure we can be friends anymore ;)
The whole message of inclusion and bringing together people who were considered outcasts from society and making a safe place for them, a family for them, a place that highlights their strengths--it made me cry while simultaneously plastering a huge smile across my face.
For as many times as I've watched the movie, I've listened to the album double that many times. The music is just SO GOOD and it's so moving. I mean, read the lyrics to "A Million Dreams", "Come Alive", "This Is Me", and "From Now On"--those are some powerful songs. Then, if you really want your mind blown, actually watch the scenes where those songs are performed and I'll come over so I can pick your jaw up off the floor for you (I'm crazy obsessed, I know)--those lyrics with the dancing, the bright colors, the people, it's just magical.
Yesterday, I was taking a walk and listening to this album and per usual, this song is just...everything and it hit me--something about this song makes me think about little splashes of Heaven, here on earth.
Hear me out.
If you haven't seen the movie, you've got to watch this scene before you move forward:
(sorry, literally the only version with the movie clip I could find had those subtitles on it)
Here we have these...oddities, as they are called in the movie...they've been shunned by society most all of their lives and since ole P.T. walked into their lives, they began building friendships, family, a common thread between them all that tied them together and made them stronger.
P.T. has put them on the back burner, their livelihood has just been taken from them by fire and quite honestly, they have every right to be mad and I think that's exactly why I love this song so much. I love how they take him back after he left them, chasing after “truer, bigger, and better” things.
But, above all else, I love the spiritual parallel of coming back home, to our true home, the place we were made to be. On this side of Heaven, we have bright lights, big ideas and many worldly "attractions" that take us away and make us lose focus and we forget that we can always come back home. We are marching towards THE home that we were made for.
That's what this song makes me think about.
So I'll leave you with just a few words from the song:
Cause from the rubble
What remains
Can only be what's true
If all was lost
There's more I gained
Cause it led me back
To you
From now on
These eyes will not be blinded by the lights
From now on
What's waited till tomorrow starts tonight
Tonight
Let this promise in me start
Like an anthem in my heart
From now on
From now on
And we will come back home
And we will come back home
Home, again!
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