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.

 
In a Top Of The Pops interview from 2005, Ian cites the Bible as a significant influence:
Ian: That'd be the Bible. Amazing book... It has been tampered with, you know they made Mary a prostitute and all that rather than a prophet. You know, it's hardest for the ladies in the Bible. They've either gotta be sainted or they're gonna be sinners so, reading in between the lines I like the story of Mary being the prophet. Mary fuelling JC with his powers an' all that.
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."
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