| DJ Shadow – What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 3) Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| Very philosophical. He's saying that our dreams, our hallucinations (drug induced or not) are just as real as our waking, concious state that everyone calls reality. But reality is just a composition of senses that are filtered by the human mind. So if all that we know is just a bunch of senses, chemicals flowing through our body, then what is reality really? Reminds me of The Matrix. | |
| Portishead – Biscuit Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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| Portishead – Wandering Star Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Eivind makes a good point. I cannot believe that no one else cared to take into account the context before. I do not agree that the speaker is in consorts with demons, seeking comfort from demons, claiming to be a demon, wishing to be a demon, or anything of the like. As Elvind said, the reference, "wandering stars," is to people who have lost their relationship with God. It may be that the speaker lost his/her relationship with God and is still a Christian. However, the speaker feels disconnected with God because of her sin. Even if you are a "perfect Christian" (which by the way is nonexistent, no one is perfect no matter how hard they try to be), you can still feel depressed. Even if your relationship with God is perfect, you can be depressed. So let's not get off on ourselves by saying: with a good relationship with the Creator we have all the purpose we need in life and are eternally happy. It is important to separate being lost and broken from God, and depression. Having said all of that I will attempt to present my opinion on the meaning of "Wandering Star": First off, the speaker wants someone to stay with her so she can pour out her emotions and thoughts, which are obviously depressed emotions and thoughts. There is no specific reference as to who the speaker is asking to stay with her and share her grief. She is definitely not asking the "wandering stars" to stay with her because there is no antecedent for "stars" in the whole song. Therefore we can assume she is asking someone, or anyone, in general (no one specific) to sit and stay with her awhile. Next, the speaker's claim that the pain will only go away if she never has to wake is not a suicidal one. Depressed people feel like this all the time even though they do not plan or wish to commit suicide. By "sleep," the speaker may literally mean sleep-- not death. Furthermore, depressed people are hopeless and often do not want to wake up in the morning to face another day of depression. The speaker may simply be trying to explain just how hopeless she feels. Because obviously one has to wake up eventually so, in esence, the speaker feels the pain will NEVER go away, no matter what (feels hopeless and helpless). I believe the two biblical references must be looked at together. Sometimes Christians lost hope in their faith, in God, or in themselves because they see "the needles eye" (the very difficult path to heaven, eternal salvation, God, and perfection). These Christians see how difficult it is to walk that path and (from what they can perceive) the impossibility of them staying on that path (Losing touch with God). So this is where the "wandering stars" reference comes in. It has already been determined that a wandering star is someone who has lost touch with God. Well, the Christians who see the difficulty of walking the narrow path to God, heaven, eternal salvation, and perfection often turn away from God because they become frustrated with not being able to meet God's expectations. So now the speaker feels empty, "like a husk," because she has fled "from which all that was" (perfection, God, eternal salvation, heaven) and has, in turn, lost her purpose in life. The speaker also has fled from "the masks, that the monsters wear to feed upon their prey." Many secular people believe Christians to be hypocrites, or people wearing masks to hide "the mosters" they really are. These "monsters" feed upon others without the mask of, "I'm a Christian, let me tell you what is right and what you're doing wrong." The "monsters" feed upon those who allow their faults to be exposed, cutting them down to build themselves up. Making them out to be horrible people in comparison to the "perfect Christians." In fact, no one is perfect and it is impossible to be perfect. God sees even our greatest works as filthy rags. God also views all sins on an equal level. No sin is worse than another. All people inherently evil. So the speaker feels locked inside her head, "doubled up inside," because she has lost everything she once lived for and hoped for and knows of nothing else to live for or hope for. She is a "wandering star" and wandering stars are reserved blackness of darkness. The "blackness" is depression and the "darkness" is being separated from God. A good solution for the speaker to escape depression is: 1) realize no one can acheive perfection and 2) realize God does not expect anyone to be perfect and knows that everyone thinks evil or does evil (even those monsters who wear masks to hide the fact that they are monsters too). |
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