| Our Lady Peace – Everyone's A Junkie Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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Everyone has addictions; for some it's drugs, for others it's machines. If you listen to RK1949-97, it outlines events in which computers take over various aspects of our lives: first they govern us (1984), then they read for us (reading machines) and then they think for us (Deep Blue). We have all these technologies and we become so reliant on them that we no longer realize how little we can do with out them. "Where does it stop/ where does it end/where do we go/" We can't figure out what to do without machines. Machines are becoming more and more human. They can do things for us, or even instead of us. It's almost as if computers aren't that different, but we just "make them thinks so". |
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| Our Lady Peace – Clumsy Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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What is a friend? This song seems to be a friend giving another advice as to how to live their life, but it's the worst advice possible. "Hide the telephone in case you realize you're just not okay": just hide from your problems. Run away. Shrugging those problems is as easy as shrugging off your own skin. Know your friends, let me in so I can betray you. That's just the way life works. But the fact is, it's true. You make a fool of yourself, and no one laughs at you, but you can't shrug it off because you know you made a fool of yourself. All you can do is sleep it off, talk it out with a true friend. The world is not a safe place for the self, but in sleep and a comforting shoulder you can at least find solace and perspective. Let those offending memories fade with time. If you remove the clues that you did something stupid, you can purge the memories as they fade from collective memories. Despite betrayals and foolish mistakes, memories fade. Mistakes will keep coming back. But remember: you're harder on yourself than the world will ever be on you when it comes to small mistakes. Maybe it feels like trying to shrug off your own skin, but all it is is throwing out the old shoelace that tripped you. Yes, life sucks. But it also moves on. |
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| Our Lady Peace – All My Friends Lyrics | 20 years ago |
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One of their best songs ever, IMO. A very nihilistic philosophy expressed, but it resonates true. "Violent minds out on loan" speaks to a sense of brainwashing by society, people "just not equipped" to comprehend any sort of cosmic truth; people who don't want to look for the fear of what they might find. The author isn't afraid to see that truth, but has stopped making people try to see that truth: they don't want to and he's not waiting for them to make sense, i.e. see the nihilistic philosophy that governs the universe. Thus, they sit, alone on a hill, mechanically ticking away the hours in blissfull ignorance and forced denial. RK on death puts this song in perspective. Death gives meaning to life because there is nothing after it so one must embrace everything about life, even that it has no meaning. Forcing others to see that is futile. Moreover, If You Believe takes the opposite view: life has hope and "life force" if you will because a faith in an afterlife makes you strong. This album, song by song, essentially explores every perspective on life in all its parts, calling humans "spiritual machines" that can encompass faith within bare biological mechanisms, and neither inherently negates the other. The album finishes with "The Wonderful Future" expressing the hope that arises from any philosophy: "She's silicone with a touch of her soul/What do I know?" We may be machines, but we have souls and each aspect of humanity can--nay, must-- be embraced simultaneously to see the true and intricate beauty in the universe. Thoughts? Opinions? |
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