Reflections on the song “Stardust”

Youtube Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjU6ZjrQulc

The song is definitely about the memory of a lost love but there are certain lines in the song that make me think of more than just the lost love of another human but additionally of the eternal loving connection we can have with God our creator.  Some of those lines are…

 “Leaving me a song that will not die   (a promise of reconciliation with God…)

Love is now the stardust of yesterday

The music of the years gone by.    (years gone by = before our estrangement from God…)

Sometimes I wonder, how I spend

The Lonely nights

Dreaming of a song

The Melody

Haunts my reverie…

…

But that was long ago

And now my consolation is in the

Stardust of a song…

…

The nightingale

Tells his fairy-tale

Of paradise, where roses grew       (the Garden of Eden?.?.)

Though I dream in vain

In my heart it will remain

My stardust melody

The memory of Love’s refrain.”     (God is love.)

 

These words and the reflective melody of the song make me think there is a part of us we carry in our deepest selves that we inherited from Adam and Eve from before the fall.  Before we became estranged from God.  Like Adam and Eve, we / I have become estranged from God.  Estranged from the paradise He created and meant for us to experience.  Now there is something in us that retains knowledge and understanding of the pre-estrangement state and in quiet, reflective moments we can recognize that connection we retain with God.  When the song speaks of “yesterday” and “long ago” I think of me and God in that pre-estrangement relationship and “the melody” that “remains” is God’s promise that each day even now I am / can have that same relationship and that someday that relationship will be fully restored.

I think this is the kind of thing he is referencing when the Apostle Paul said “…that which is known about God is evident within them: for God made it evident to them.  For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have clearly been seen…”