House Of Pain

Solomon writes this simple advice in Ecclesiastes 12.1 "Remember your Creator in the days of your youth,
before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say,
"I find no pleasure in them"-
2. Before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark,
and the clouds return after the rain;
3. when the keepers of the house tremble,
and the strong men stoop,
when the grinders cease because they are few,
and those looking through the windows
grow dim
4. when the doors to the street are closed
and the sound of grinding fades;
when men rise up at the sound of birds,
but all their songs grow faint;
5. when men are afraid of heights and dangers in the streets;
when the almond tree blooms
and the grasshopper drags himself along
and desire no longer is stirred
Then man goes to his eternal home
and mourners go about in the streets.


Solomon possessed wisdom and powers of observation but had to conclude some things are beyond understanding.
Failing in his attempt to figure out life he fell back on simple advise to conclude his book " FEAR GOD AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS" (from my Bible commentary)
advocating a life of faith he describes (above) the decay that was already at work in his body. (HOUSE)

The video of "Bittersweet Symphony That's Life" by THE VERVE
describes the irony of life" your a slave to money then you die" in its lyrics and the refrain in the chorus "I am here in my moan..... I'll take you down the only road Iv'e been down...... no change I can't change"
describes the hopeless trap of this body (house)
and the human condition without God and without purpose and meaning as summed up by Solomon.

Talkin bout all generations