All those things that go to make heaven and this,
where midnight was, were splashed across the canvas.
Midnight, who was a girl,
Midnight, who lost control and found this world.

With matter removed of divine dimension,
our time reduced to an honorable mention.
This world, which time forgot,
this world, it lost control and then saw God.

All of the things that go to make heaven and earth are here.
All of the things that go to make heaven and earth.
Put your new weight in gold and see what its worth.
All of the things that go to make heaven and earth are here.
All of the things that go to make heaven and this.
Success was survival and, kid, it still is.
Success was survival and, kid, it still is.

Did you think of something He didn't think of?
Crashing into horizons, on the brink of success! Hurrah!
Success which was survival gone too far.

All of the things that go to make heaven and earth are here.
All of the things that go to make heaven and earth.
Put your new weight in gold and see what its worth.
All of the things that go to make heaven and earth are here.
All of the things that go to make heaven and this.
Success was survival and, kid, it still is.
Success was survival and, kid, it still is.
Success was survival and, kid, it still is.
Success was survival and, kid, it still is.


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    My Interpretation

    I understand this song as a celebration of man's prosperity. The first part seems to refer to the old (I believe medieval) belief that this world doesn't matter and that you should focus on the afterlife ("with matter removed of divine dimension/our time reduced to an honorable mention"). They then go on to reject this old belief by stating that not only are Heaven and Earth not separate (classically considered completely separate), but that their very building blocks are "here", within human reach. This essentially means that there is nothing that man cannot do.

    The bit about success as survival "gone too far" implies that success - in this case progress - is in human nature, that as humans it is part of our very being to succeed. Our successful survival has provided us with new challenges which, in order to survive, cause us to succeed even more. Thus the chain of success in unending. The perpetuity of our success, our progress, is evidenced in the line "crashing into horizons on the brink of success." It is impossible to "crash into a horizon", because the horizon is by definition distance. That is to say that we are constantly moving rapidly and recklessly towards complete success, which I suppose would be an end to our progress, but we will never reach it.

    TheLastRoboton January 29, 2010   Link

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