what does the song abide with me mean
Abide with Me The hymn is a prayer for God to remain present with the speaker throughout life, through trials, and through death. The opening line alludes to Luke 24:29, "Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent", and the penultimate verse draws on text from 1 Corinthians 15:55, "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?":
A Case of You Mitchell wrote "A Case of You" in or before 1970. As with many of the songs on her album Blue, her break up with Graham Nash is often cited as the inspiration for the song.[1] It is also claimed that it is "a song about Leonard Cohen". She performed the song at the Amchitka Greenpeace benefit concert in October 1970. She recorded the song in 1971, and it was released on the 1971 album Blue with Mitchell playing Appalachian dulcimer, accompanied by James Taylor on acoustic guitar.