| Holiday Parade – Tickets & Passports Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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| Ben Folds Five – Philosophy Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think this song is about Ben Folds self-discovery when he first began to try drugs. It turned his whole life in a new direction, somewhat describing the lyrics "mortar block and glass" when the normal term would be "glass block mortar". He's beginning to appreciate things he never noticed before ("check out the reflections in my eyes"). In his own mind, the feelings that he gets using the drugs have always been there, but he just hadn't noticed them with all the other distractions in life. People began to judge him because he was trying drugs, which are declared bad in modern day society. He felt like he had a new knowledge (the torch) that he acquired from these drugs, but he couldn't share this knowledge with people who hadn't tried them, because they would only judge him. So he says go ahead and judge him all you want, he knows the truth; he's got his philosophy. He sees that there is evil; he sees hard, addictive drugs being done and misused. But he also knows that there is good, because he has done drugs before, and they have opened up his mind to be a better person. He's confused about the in-between, because he's also seen people doing the drugs that he does, but they abuse them and make something good into something evil. He then says that he pushed his friends because he loved them; he wanted them to feel this extraordinary feeling that he felt. He didn't realize that they weren't ready for what he gave them. He "dragged them up the stairs and told them to fly"-- he was pushing them to try to get them to try the drug-- "you were flapping your arms, then you started to cry, you were too high"-- they really tried to feel good like Ben Folds did, but they couldn't handle it, it was too much. They were too high. Now they all take life for granted; they don't appreciate the things that he learned to appreciate through drugs. "it's not really that you can't see the forest from the trees, you just never been out in the woods alone"-- i think this is Ben Folds saying that his friends may be able to look at people doing drugs and judge them, but it's only because they have never been out in the woods alone. Sorry to all this offends, but I really think this it what he was thinking when he wrote the song. That is just my opinion. |
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