The lyrics say that he halted his craft and it hung in the star like a star, but it also goes on to say hebfollowed a light thatvled him to the house so im not so sure that the star of Bethlehem was the spacemans craft orbit was the light of another star.
@@marcelotto6825 According to some old book. Weren't humans supposedly created by god in his/her/its image? Where's the mention of him/her/it creating another race of beings? Also, why were they made much more technologically advanced than we were?
@@sandgrownun66 De Burgh read Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Däniken. The book made him think "what if the star of Bethlehem was a space craft and what if there is a benevolent being or entity in the universe keeping an eye on the world and our foolish things that we do to each other?" Chris was also a fan of Irish poet William Butler Yeats, whose work "The Second Coming" avers that every 2,000 years or so there would be a major cataclysmic event happening, de Burgh saw the birth of Christ as "such an event and then 2,000 years later there would be a similar" one. He imagined "the nativity scene, the thing hovering over and I could see the shepherds in the fields and this weird, ethereal music was drifting into the air and they were 'what the heck is that'?"
@@CrispyCrow555 What's this thing about 2,000 years? Modern humans have been on this planet for 100,000 years. What happened in the previous 98,000 years, and what's so special about the last 2% of human existence?
@@Lord_Numpty I don’t quite understand your point, if you want to be pedantic you could say that it is an alternative narrative to the nativity but you are unlikely to find the Salvation Army singing it on Christmas eve while waving a bucket at passers by now are you?
@@Andy-ix2ox Still doesn’t change that it is a Christmas song, it just isn’t about typical Christmas stuff but as it’s about the nativity, it IS a Christmas song.
