Your Time Will Come



She walks right through my head
Leaves me reeling behind
I've never been in such a stirring scene
Think I'm finding my mind
Sure as his brand new dream
Wakes from his wizened dream
To come a day, shake this shroud away
Wonder where have I been

While I wait
She will play
The signs and the seasons, rhymes and the reasons
I can be sure she'll say:

Your time will come, your river it will run
Summer skies will light your eyes
She says what she says because she knows
Because she is on your side

She walks right through my head
Leaves me reeling behind
I've never been in such a stirring scene
Think I'm finding my mind

Sure as his brand new dream
Wakes from his wizened dream
To come a day, shake this shroud away
Wonder where have I been

Your time will come, your river it will run
Summer skies will light your eyes
She says what she says because she knows
Because she is on your side

Your time will come, your river it will run
Summer skies will light your eyes
She says what she says because she knows
Because she is on your side


Lyrics by:
Squire / Brown

Music by:
Squire / Brown

Written:
1987

Personnel (live):
John Squire (guitar)
Ian Brown (vocals)
Pete Garner (bass)
Alan Wren (drums, backing vocals)

Produced by:
N / A

Available on:
Never released on any official album. Live performance available on Manchester International I (26th June 1987) bootleg.

First live performance:
In 1987.

Details:
Your Time Will Come is an excellent track that should have been worked on to its full potential. After the performance of this at Manchester International I in 1987 (the only available recording of this song), Ian says to the crowd, "You didn't like that one, did you ?"; this was in part, a sarcastic retort to the crowd's constant calls for So Young and Tell Me. The chorus draws upon the first miracle by Jesus, at a wedding in Cana, Galilee, where He turned water into wine. See (John 2: 1 - 11), 'Jesus Changes Water to Wine'. Mary informed her son that the wine had run out at the wedding:

Jesus knew that if He performed the miracle, this would have meant that His time had come. Mary, the mother of Jesus (who was on Jesus' side; "she is on your side"), knew what she was asking of Jesus ("She says what she says because she knows") in bringing this to His attention. John informs us that the wine Jesus made came from six stone water jars, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons. These jars were used by Jews to fulfil the rules on ceremonial washing. In the transformation of water by Jesus in this, His first miracle, the river of His ministry began to run ("Your time will come, your river it will run"), its source symbolically taking over from the 'old' way and customs of the Pharisees. See One Love for the connotations which "river" has within the context of Your Time Will Come. The transformation of water into wine was a precursor to the Last Supper, at which took place the transformation of bread and wine into the body and blood of Jesus Christ. The song appears to be linking the first miracle by Jesus to His eventual Resurrection, when He:

The Shroud of Turin is a linen cloth, moved to Turin in 1578, bearing the image of a figure presumed to be Jesus Christ, who appears to have been physically traumatized in a manner consistent with crucifixion. It is kept in the royal chapel of the Cathedral of Saint John the Baptist in Turin, and is believed by many to be the cloth placed on the body of Jesus at the time of His burial, while others argue that the artifact may postdate the death of Jesus by more than a millennium. The striking negative image was first observed on the evening of 28th May 1898, on the reverse photographic plate of amateur photographer Secondo Pia, who was allowed to photograph it while it was being exhibited in the Turin Cathedral. According to Pia, he almost dropped and broke the photographic plate from the shock of seeing an image of a person on it. The shroud is the subject of intense debate among scientists, people of faith, historians, and writers regarding where, when, and how the shroud and its images were created. From a religious standpoint, in 1958 Pope Pius XII approved of the image in association with the Roman Catholic devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus, celebrated every year on Shrove Tuesday.

 

Top: 'The Wedding at Cana' (1563) by Paolo Veronese (1528 - 1588). By exercising His divine power, Jesus forever changed the relationship between Himself and His mother Mary. Jesus was no longer only Jesus son of Mary, but was setting His foot on the path to Calvary, to begin the redemptive act, to begin His mission. Jesus sought confirmation from Mary prior to performing this miracle as Mary was to move from being the mother of Jesus to the Mother of Sorrows. So great was the love and concern of Our Blessed Mother for the people at the wedding that she turns to the servants, points at her son and says "Do whatever he tells you." These words, her last in Sacred Scripture, gave Him permission to begin the public exercise of His divine authority. When He did this, His fate was sealed - and so was hers.
Bottom left: 'Descent from the Cross with the Shroud of Turin', a 16th century work by Giovanni Battista della Rovere.
Bottom right: A recent photo of The Shroud of Turin (positive left, negative right). The negative has been contrast enhanced; the image on the shroud is much clearer in black-and-white negative than in its natural sepia colour.

In a Top Of The Pops interview from 2005, Ian cites the Bible as a significant influence:

This is a warped interpretation of the Bible on so many levels. The level of regard which Ian has for the Son of God is exemplified by the reductive abbreviation of His name to that on a Premiership football manager's jacket. Ian is vociferous in his abhorrence of the Roman Catholic faith, yet were he to properly 'read between the lines' of Scripture, he might realise that honour of a woman, Mary the mother of Jesus - espoused by the Roman Catholic Church - is absolutely integral to the faith. Women have a paramount place in Catholic history and Catholic traditions. As Michael Voris of RealCatholicTV explains, when Jesus was crucified, He spoke to His mother and the disciple John at the foot of the cross. "Woman, here is your son," and to the disciple, "Here is your mother." (John 19: 26 - 27). Jesus referred to His mother as 'woman' because God the Son, from the throne of His cross, is reaching back to the dawn of History, where He promised that there would be a woman who would bring forth the redemption of the world and who would crush the serpent's head ("I will put enmity between you and the woman."). If the Gospel of John was the only Gospel we had, we would not even know Jesus's mother's name; throughout the entire Gospel of John, He only refers to her as 'woman'. Fast forward to the Book of Revelation - a woman clothed with the sun appears in heaven. Mary is the woman of Genesis. She is the woman of Revelation. At every point in between, before she is actually conceieved immaculately and born and comes into reality, she is the perfect woman in the mind of God. From all eternity, He has envisioned this woman to be His mother. He is the son who made His own mother, and any son who would create and form his own mother would make her perfect. The only one guilty of tampering with the Bible is Ian Brown himself. Rather than swallowing hook, line and sinker the preposterous central thesis of a relationship between Mary Magdalene and Jesus in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, Ian should instead turn his attention toward forming a proper understanding of the divine relationship between the Immaculate Conception and the Incarnation. Some of the greatest minds in Western culture, from Augustine to Aquinas, have devoted their lives to the rational articulation of the Gospel; it requires no zany, manipulative editing from either of the aforementioned Browns. The New Testament, which came out of the Church, has not been tampered with. The teachings and beliefs of the Catholic Church are in essence the same now in the 21st century as they were in the 1st century. One need look only to the writing of Justin Martyr, an early Christian apologist, for confirmation of this. Take for example, the linchpin of the Catholic faith, the Eucharist. Writing to the Emperor in the second century, Justin Martyr explained the belief of these early Christians that the bread and wine was the actual body and blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ: "And this food is called among us the Eucharist, of which no one is allowed to partake but the man who believes that the things which we teach are true, and who has been washed with the washing that is for the remission of sins, and unto regeneration, and who is so living as Christ has enjoined. For not as common bread and common drink do we receive these; but in like manner as Jesus Christ our Saviour, having been made flesh by the Word of God, had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so likewise have we been taught that the food which is blessed by the prayer of His word, and from which our blood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh."

'Judith with the Head of Holofernes' (1613) by Cristofano Allori. If the Catholic Church rewrote the Bible to subvert the role of women, I doubt they would have confirmed the inclusion of the Book of Judith at the Council of Trent in 1545 (whereas it was excluded by Protestantism). Judith was a heroine who saved the Jewish people by cutting off the head of Holofernes, king of the Assyrians. If the Catholic Church rewrote the Bible to subvert he role of women, I doubt they would include the Book of Ruth in the Bible. Ruth was not even a Jew, yet she plays a key role in salvation history. Why did the Catholic Church did not erase the Book of Esther, and why did it not rewrite the story of Mary herself ? And there are all the great women of the New Testament: Martha, Mary Magdalene, Anna in the Temple (described as a prophet), Elizabeth and dozens more. The Dead Sea Scrolls (which Ian Brown claims to be an authority on) clearly demonstrate the integrity of the Church's transcription of the Old Testament. Predating the Church and Christ by 250 years, they blow away all the claims the Catholic Church wrote the Bible to suit its own agenda. They are word for word what the Church transcribed from the Septuagint. If Ian wishes to educate himself about a 'tampered Bible', then he need look no further than the heresy that is Gnosticism. Heresy reaches into a system of beliefs and begins to destroy it by exception. Like someone picking at the base of a completed Jenga tower, the heretic hopes that pulling out that one block that is so integral to the structure will bring the whole system crashing down. Catholicism, at its heart, is an all or nothing proposition, and this is why people have a problem with the Catholic Church. What has been carved out in postmodern society is the misguided interpretation that you can have a body of beliefs, yet you do not have to believe all of them. Jesus Christ came to earth to save us from sin. There is a crowd that wants Christ without the cross, a crowd more than content to listen to the Sermon on the Mount, but they do not want the Mount of Calvary which automatically, necessarily flows from the Sermon on the Mount. The Beatitudes mark a symbolic beginning of Jesus' life in the Gospels; He ascends one mountain at the beginning of His public ministry, and He comes to another mountain at the end of His public ministry.


Back To The Songs