These Are the Times
Dru Hill · Enter the Dru
Patient desire, but love defined only by the moment, not covenant.
Where the words land
Signal: Strained, leaning worth weighing.
What do these signals mean?
- Edifying: Points the heart toward God, truth, hope, or love.
- Worth Weighing: Real good and real concern together. Test it before you take it in.
- Strained: Strains against Scripture: leans toward what could dull or mislead.
- At Odds: At odds with Scripture: celebrates what it warns against. Little here builds up.
Weighed against Scripture
“How the hell could I not want you”
“But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.”
Scripture frames sexual desire as rightly fulfilled within marriage; the song expresses strong desire without naming any such commitment.
“True love is consistent, we don't have to rush at all”
“O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until the time is right.”
The restraint and patience expressed here mirror the wisdom of not stirring up love before its time, a genuinely commendable instinct.
“We can make love or not at all”
“For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,”
Paul calls believers to control the body in holiness and honor; the song treats physical intimacy as an open option shaped by mood rather than covenant.
In short
This is a smooth, patient love song about savoring intimacy rather than rushing into it, which is a genuinely appealing instinct in a culture of instant gratification. But its vision of love stays wholly physical and in-the-moment, with no reference to commitment, marriage, or anything beyond mutual desire. It's tender in tone but shallow in depth, more about chemistry than covenant.
- Lyrical content
Sensual and suggestive throughout, with a few flirtatious lines about desire, but no crude or explicit language.
- Spiritual posture
The song centers entirely on romantic and physical attraction; it neither reaches toward God nor away from Him, just an unexamined appeal to desire ('God knows' is used as an expression, not an address to Him).
- Apparent intent
Intended as a smooth R&B love song celebrating patience and mutual respect in intimacy, though it stays focused on physical desire without clear context of covenant or commitment.
What do these ratings mean?
- Lyrical content, what the words say on the surface. Clean: nothing coarse, sexual or violent. Mild: a trace of it, by allusion or a rare word. Strong: profanity, sex or violence in plain words. Explicit: graphic, or sin held up to admire.
- Spiritual posture, where the song's heart points. God-honoring: toward God, truth or hope. Searching: honestly reaching or wrestling toward truth, without arriving. Neutral: spiritually indifferent; neither reaches nor rejects. Dark: despairing, nihilistic, self-exalting or hostile to God.
- Apparent intent, what the song is for. Edifying: worship, encouragement, honest lament. Cathartic: letting grief, anger or longing out, told honestly. Ambiguous: hard to say what the song is for. Harmful: celebrates evil, mocks faith or draws toward sin.
Does this song's picture of 'taking your time' point toward the kind of covenant love Scripture calls good, or does it stop short of ever naming it?
An AI-assisted reading. It can misread a lyric, a metaphor or a song’s intent.
