I tend to like hymns, well some hymns. One was “O for a thousand tongues to sing”. I remember being really moved by the melody as a young kid. Moved by the melody, but oh so confused by the lyrics. You see, I thought it was actually “O for a thousand tons to sink”. I was so confused as to why we were singing about what I, as a young kid, assumed was the sinking of the titanic. It was a revelation when I finally read the lyrics, it was kind of like when I discovered there was an R in February and a D in Wednesday, mind boggling.
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