"There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and he put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and he built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit. And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. Finally he sent his son to them, saying, 'They will respect my son.' But when the tenants saw the son, they said to themselves, 'This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and have his inheritance.' And they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him."
When Jesus tells this parable in Matthew 21, it doesn't take long for the Pharisees to recognize that he was speaking of them. They knew the scripture, and they recognized the description in Isaiah 5 of the house of Israel as a vineyard.
Of course, all of this raises the question why is this called a "love song"? But if you think about it – isn't the genre of "love song" frequently characterized by heartbreak and heartache?
"Since my baby left me, I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of lonely street at Heartbreak Hotel..."
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