| Pixies – Monkey Gone to Heaven Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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"The creature in the sky" is us, the individuals that make up humanity. It plays into the overall meaning of the lyrics because it is a commentary on our, western-style religion. It shows, through an arbitrary method of beginning a set of 3 continuous numbers, how arbitrary our religion is. OK, so I HOPE this makes sense! Basically what the song is saying is how our divisions are extremely simplified conceptions of reality. We have this mental divisions of God, the Devil, and Heaven... we see only three entities and one place (and the fouth, hell, is entailed by the use of contrast God and the Devil, but it is indeed effectively left out, by our immediate response to it's insinuation (of hell) it proves just how "rigid" and simplified it is. On could say that this consencous found in western religion of Hell, Heaven, God, Devil, is in fact proof of its truth, but really everyone knows that you don't even need to find these people, just go to other countries and you will have indeniable evidence of people acknowleding religions without sharing or at least ommiting certain notions of our religious realities. The number's used, 5, 6, and 7, some argue have meaning within themselves (5 for the fingers, 6 for the triagonal 6, and 7 for the magical number heaven) but this is highly tied, once again, to our religion. In reality it's aribitrary, 5, 6, 7,. "What comes after 6?" Wow, !!! I know!!! Seven!!! "You are 100% perfect in this knowledge!" In the same way we simplify God, Heaven, Hell down to the level of a monkey's unsophisticated intellect. Basically it is saying that we toy with reality and don't take it seriously enough. We take life as if it were child's play, creating stories that are as cheap and superficial as the soap opera's on T.V. Yes, we really are as dumb as all the author's from our English classes hinted. * *tear... The whole "Got sucked in a hole now There's a hole in the sky And the ground's not cold And if the ground's not cold Everything is going to burn" Contrast between a hole (hell) being in the sky (heaven), the hole is essentially in the sky... the sky is its inverted ground. The contrast between cold and burn further further shows that contrast between the devil, god and hell and heaven. |
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| Spiral Architect – Cloud Constructor Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| The striving to understand life leaves man, in the end, knowing that life is not something that can be understood, but rather experienced. But because we are material creatures we construct ideas about reality out of our insecure necessity in order to manuvere our way through. Epistemologically it is impossible to know everything, thus we are left staring from our protective pinnacle of reason into the void of the unknown. | |
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