6 - The News Pt 2

THE NEWS, Pt. II

Have you heard the news?
Herod slaughtered the infants of Bethlehem.
(What a shock, what a shock, what a shock, what a shock, what a shock)
Now is it true,
That he ordered every boy under two
Be put to death by the sword?
(Good Lord)
Now we all know Herod’s insane, atrocities committed every day in his name,
But you have to wonder: who’s the lightning to Herod’s thunder?
It just makes sense: an informer’s gotta be the catalyst to events
Now look to the sky, I spy with my eye, the receding silhouettes of the magi!

Apparently they wandered into town asking around to learn the location of “the King of the Jews”.
Yep. You couldn’t have asked for a more tactless pass at the tyrant known as Herod
A fast-tracking of mass-murder incurred by the words of three guys with eyes fixed on a distant star
They came from afar with arms loaded with gifts significant as tokens fit for a king
But not Herod.
And therein, lies the rub, cuz now Herod felt snubbed
Not just snubbed, he felt threatened!
Threatened by a baby no less! And guess what he did?
He hid his true intentions under a veneer of humble interest, and requested
That the magi would discover where the child lived and give the information
To this ruler of the nation so he too could go and worship the Child—
(LIAR!)
Sure, they went home a different way, out of Herod’s way, but by then it was too late.
The damage had been done. The blood had been spilt. King Herod had won—or so he thought.