| Talking Heads – Memories Can't Wait Lyrics | 21 years ago |
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Actually, I think this is a song about dying: one of a short list of things good songs are allowed to be about. It is a song by a young man who is self conscious enough to be thinking about dying, and what it means, and also what being alive means. We die alone, yet not really alone. and we live that way too. There's a party in our heads, which we can never leave, never truly witness or experience the end of. "Other people can go home...everyone else will split", as perhaps will we, too - into all the bits and pieces bouncing around together that we called ourselves. But like so many of the phenomena of consciousness, that probably looks very different on the inside than on the out. There are many uncertainties involved in the final Unknown, and some of the possibilities may be fearful, and not just the melodramatic ones. Fear of disappointment with the emptiness and aloneness that we may hope doesn't await us at or near the closing parenthesis might be enough to make many millions of people unconsciously wish for fire and brimstone as more interesting alternatives. In the end, though, although we may lose the memories that make up our selves as we know them, whether there is a "true" end or not, we as we know ourselves may not be there to witness it, which is practically the same thing as eternity, the same eternity available to the living, as well, in every moment, for those who look for it tenaciously. |
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