I really, really don’t understand the country music video for “Long Black Train” by Josh Turner.
Lyrics: http://www.anysonglyrics.com/lyrics/j/josh-turner/long-black-train.htm
Now, the lyrics I understand perfectly, there’s a train run by the devil that takes it upon itself to judge sinners and carry them to Hell. If you’re Christian, apparently, you’ll survive the train, and the temptations of sin. OK.
Well, the music video features various people standing on the train tracks letting the train pass through them, and if they are redeemed, they survive it. If they aren’t, well, they go “ridin’ on that long black train.” The thing that I don’t understand about it is the people portrayed as sinners.
There’s a gambler, and drug users, but they also show an obese man and a single mother. Also, they show a pregnant teenager, and of course, the man who got her pregnant is nowhere to be seen, 'cause you know, of course HE didn’t sin, but SHE did.
I’m not getting why being fat is a sin. I’m not Christian, so maybe that has something to do with it, but I don’t understand why some of these people are portrayed as sinners.