Last night my friend Kevin and I went to see the musical RENT. Its a story about some people living in New York in one of the more shady parts of town. Its about love, both straight and homosexual, about life with HIV/AIDS, and how to live it fully. One song really touched me deeply and reminded me of when my bible study looked at the book of Ruth. Here are the lyrics, the song is called "I'll Cover You":
live in my house
i'll be your shelter
just pay be back with one thousand kisses
be my lover and i'll cover you
open your door
i'll be your tenant
don't got much baggage to lay at your feet
but sweet kisses i've got to spare
i'll be there and i'll cover you
i think they meant it when they said you can't buy love
now i know you can rent it and new lease you are my love one life be my life
just slip me on
i'll be your blanket
wherever whatever i'll be your coat
you'll be my king and i'll be your castle
no you'll be my queen and i'll be your moat
i think they meant it when they said you can't buy love
now i know you can rent it and new lease you are my life one life oh my life
i've longed to discover something as true as the seas
So with a thousand sweet kisses
i'll cover you
with a thousand sweet kisses
i'll cover you
when you're worn out and tired
when you're heart has expired
if you're cold and you're lonely you've got one nickel only
with a thousand sweet kisses
i'll cover you with a thousand sweet kisses
i'll cover you
oh lover i'll cover you
yeah
oh lover i'll cover you
This song really touched me... because when we were studying Ruth we read deeply into the following verse:
"Spread the corner of your garment over me, since you are a kinsman-redeemer." (Ruth 3:9)
Ruth says this to Boaz after she lays at the foot of his bed and he wakes up to see her there, spreads his blanket over her. The fact that Boaz is her kinsman-redeemer basically means that he is next in line to marry Ruth. The word in hebrew for cover is to signify shelter, or the way a hen wraps her wings around her chicks, or warmth. So when Ruth asks Boaz to spread his garment over her it means more deeply to provide her all of these things.
The song to me says the same thing... the way that love should be is a shelter. God wants to cover us, with his love, with his protection, with everything we'll ever need. And every verse means so much too: "Live in my house, I'll be your shelter", "open your door, I'll be your tenant, don't got much baggage to lay at your feet", "just slip me on, i'll be your blanket, whenever, wherever i'll be your coat", "when you're worn out and tired, when you're heart has expired, if you're cold and you're lonely you've got one nickel only"
How often does God ask us to live in His house, to let Him be our shelter. If we live with Him, we can leave all of our baggage at his feet (even if we have a lot!), we can slip him on when we need comfort from our lives, if we're cold and need something to warms us, when we're tired, when we are at the end of life, when we have no where else to go, when we are poor. He can fulfill our every need.
I guess the only major conflict to this moving song is that it was sung between Collins and Angel (his drag queen 'girlfriend'). But a good song nonetheless, and a good meaning, and a good demonstration of what love is supposed to look like.
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