| The Smashing Pumpkins – Wound Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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I think this song is very spiritual and existential, referring to the oneness of god and ultimate reality "you're a part of me, eternal one, by grande design" and its relationship with humanity. the dreaming references are a metaphor of the dream of duality, a nightmare really, of life unloved, cities burning, then sharply contrasted with the knowledge that no real harm has been done outside the dream "awake in my arms, you cry unharmed" the unreality of our dream of duality is further referenced in relation to god in the lines "so take it all, i doubt that we'll even know its gone, because we've been here since time began (another reference to timeless ultimate reality and oneness) if god took it all away we'd just be left in the reality we've always been in before we had this dream. Despite man's connection to this divine nature he creates a nightmare of guilt and evil in his niavety "and soon there's notions of blood on his hands" and in the ultimate act of separation attempts to disown god himself, yet man IS god, man is God's love and so he "spites god above with his own love" the fact that man exists is due solely to gods love, thus his attempt to spite him is wildly ironic and insane. It seems almost like the chorus is Billy's idea of how god works with how we choose to be. Like god is saying "if you wait i will wait" if man waits to seek god, god will wait to reveal himself. "If you love i will love" if man loves he percieves god as loving. God will be what we want him to be, forever "till my last breath" At least that's my take. Obviously very deep and poetic song. Beautiful. |
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