@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
Always object
Never subject
Can you see us? Are we there?
Are we there.
Can you see me? We are watching
We are watching.
You are fading.
In the daylight. Fading.
Always upon you, light never ceases
Lost from yourself, light never ceases
Thousands of eyes, gaze never ceases
Light is upon you, life in you ceases
Never subject
Can you see us? Are we there?
Are we there.
Can you see me? We are watching
We are watching.
You are fading.
In the daylight. Fading.
Always upon you, light never ceases
Lost from yourself, light never ceases
Thousands of eyes, gaze never ceases
Light is upon you, life in you ceases
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Panopticon was originally a prison designed to allow very pew people the ability to observe all inmates at one time without the inmates being able to see the observer. Hence lines like "Can you see us? Are we there?" The prison rooms themselves were to be backlit to keep all prisoners in isolation. This song is about the idea that us thinking someone is always watching negates the necessity for there to actually be someone watching and how stifling it is to live with someone watching.
Also, I'd like to say I enjoy the double (or multiple) entendre of "Always object, never subject."
Although it speaks to the idea behind Bentham's prison, it may also be read as a way to revolt. Always object to such control. Never subject yourself to them.
At least, I'd like people to remember that.
I agree. At first I heard it in the noun form, but now I prefer the verb form. It makes much more sense that way.
"He is seen, but he does not see; he is the object of information, never a subject in communication." -Michel Foucault's Panopticism.
This almost seems like questions to higher beings above. The artwork of Panopticon seems to focus on grand overhead views of the world, so the lyrics are verymuch hand-in-hand. Maybe the album's a sort of "themed concept album," focusing on the world from above? How wonderfully amorphous, much like the music itself.
Enough said just read Nebunaut. Dude that man has it right on.
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I believe in artwork for this album is to show that someone's always keeping an eye on us, sorta' like the basis of that movie Enemy of the State. Awesome song, nonetheless.
This is the most straight-forward song on the album, by far. It is talking about a prisoner, or person ruled by government, or whomever Isis is refering. The person is going crazy from "Big Brother"--as intended.
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