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| Jars of Clay – Can't Erase It Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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Necessarily concurrent with the will of modern man to deify himself is the perpetual reinvention of self; accordingly without historical revisionism and the subjugation of intuition or conscience, the absurdity of this project would be exposed and man, humbled and mortalized. Godless man will seek first a reconciliation with nature and the Primordial Unity of mankind, but "changes [his] mind" as he is confronted by his innate human selfishness that demands the throne of the god he has slain. He descends into the new "best place for [him]", the depths of the Void, the underworld, for it is here where man most easily deceives himself, both in the negation of reality and the creation of the illusory: "it's easier that way". But, paradoxically, it is here, too, amidst man's greatest isolation, apprehending the mountain he must climb, that his conscience squirms free of its bondage and frantically protests the ascent, limbs and tongue flailing wildly, and thus renders him unable to embrace his vision with the confidence and resolution his cause requires:
"So Wrong/Can't Embrace/Erase/Escape It". Try as he might to deny, suppress, or exterminate his conscience by means of public renunciation or private counsel, man cannot win an internal civil war, much less engage in one and pursue another campaign simultaneously, unless he is prepared to permanently abandon his pursuit of happiness, annihilate any traces of it, and commit himself to evil. |
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| Radiohead – You Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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'You' is about a self-destructive relationship. The lovesick, esteemless protagonist has put so much of himself at stake for the sake of the relationship's sustenance that he cannot bear to "run away" or "believe himself", even as he is aware that the imbalance of power, his fragile heart's acquired dependency [coupled with] her instability, and the resulting internal friction has thrust his entire existence into flames. |
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| Portishead – Roads Lyrics
| 19 years ago
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"We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact..." |
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