just a small town girl living in a lonely world she took the midnight train

going anywhere perhaps you've heard these lines some time the last 15 years

from the 1981 song by Journey called Don't Stop Believing it was a minor hit

in 1981 but got a second life 2007 2010 stadium after stadium over the last 15

years the song as many of you know has a memorable tune which makes that main

line Don't Stop Believing which doesn't come to the last minute of the

song makes it feel so powerful Don't Stop Believing yet if you sit down and

analyze the lyrics as a pastor who loves classic rock might be prone to do you

might find out how disappointing and thin the lyrics are it is a fitting stadium

song for one don't stop believing in what what's the object don't stop

believe and tell me what he's supposed to be believing in the story behind the

song is that one band member went to the band with the iconic line don't stop

believing hold on to that feeling with the vague idea that Steve Perry the

voice of Journey he had the vague idea that Steve Perry would want to sing it and

Perry loved it one site reports and the band went on to improvise and jam until

they had dialed in a workable version of the song so no wonder that a pastor

might be disappointed on an analysis of the song a side note there's that line

just a city boy born in raising South Detroit if you look at a map you can see

that South Detroit is what the Canadians call Ontario Perry thought that

South Detroit sounded good and he didn't realize till years later that it

does not exist now I mentioned Don't Stop Believing because that would be a

fair summary of the exhortation sections in the book of Hebrews and we've said

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