| The Receiving End Of Sirens – Broadcast Quality Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| i personally think this song is about lust, and every man's struggle with it. i think lust can ultimately destroy a man ("but her wrists felt just like rope, like rope, as they grazed my neck") | |
| The Receiving End Of Sirens – Pale Blue Dot Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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It's so unusual how some of these lyrics are just downright depressing, while some of them offer so much hope (especially for Christians). TREOS was freakin amazing. I think many of the lyrics focus on the struggles and hardships for the follower of God in this life. He is obviously fed up with his struggle with sin, ashamed of his failures, and greatly longs for his true home. The evil of this world and the heavy hardship he continually endures even cause him to almost apologize to his daughter for bringing her into such an empty place. I just love the passion and longing in his voice when he sings "There's no place like home". It sounds like a man who knows he doesn't ultimately belong in this world and has his true home in heaven. It's a man who is sick and tired of an empty and temporary world. The yearning and hope for Heaven just makes my spine tingle whenever I hear this song. I think the writer is expressing his disgust and repulsion for this world, but also expressing his faith and anticipation for Heaven. (Seriously, if people really think this world is it, I don't know how they wake up in the morning) Again, I think this song (and tons of other TREOS songs) makes sense and means SO much more to a Christian who shares the band's Biblical beliefs. Oh the wonderful faithfulness of God! |
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| The Receiving End Of Sirens – A Realization of the Ear Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| I think it's pretty simple. The writer of the song is singing as the earth. He realizes the pain and the emptiness of this world and recognizes the eventual outcome of the earth. It's just a matter of time until this place is destroyed (or disappears) and we all are in one of two places (hint: they both start with an H) | |
| The Receiving End Of Sirens – This Armistice Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Like MANY songs by TREOS, these lyrics are clearly coming from a Christian's viewpoint. (This entire CD is about the struggle of sin in the life of the Christian believer). Here's my opinion on the song: "The truth" is that we're all born into a sinful and ungodly flesh until we come to know Christ and He frees us from the bondage of sin (and the cost of sin, eternal death- yes it certainly is "vile"). Until we allow God to come into our lives, we're slaves, or "held hostage" by sin. Those who harden their heart and turn away from God's love are simply "captives of this passive shell" and can do nothing but sin. Our sinful flesh knows no other way until we allow the power of Christ to transform our souls, our hearts, and our lives. The "passive shell" is simply saying a body with a dead soul inside (or a soul that does NOT intimately know Christ). All these earthly bodies know how to do is sin. We're "captives of these passive shells" until God sets us free. So the non-Christian "blissfully presses on" to the "sound of the organ's most convincing tunes". All this is saying is the nonbeliever ignorantly lives out a Godless life, enticed by the flashy (yet empty and eventually worthless) distractions of this world. If they don't know Christ's love, what else do they know? "We're all puppets, we're all marionettes"- Another way of saying we're literally slaves to sin, it's all we know until we find the promises of God. "Tell me who's pulling the strings, tell me whose that you live for"- Who control's your life? Do you live based on God's sovereign plan for your life, or do you turn your back and live the way you and your flesh want to live? Then it seems to turn from kind of depressing (yet truthful) to hopeful and encouraging. "You've caused this collapse between the heart and the synapse" -When we finally turn to God, the power of His salvation breaks this hopelessness and this bondage to sin. I think the "heart" refers to our souls or that which continues after this life. I think the "synapse" refers to the body, the sinful flesh, and our passive shells which are only temporary and will end when physical life ends. When we surrender to Christ, He frees us from the slavery of sin, and we live according to the spirit, not the flesh (this is straight from Romans in the Bible). Only God has the power to break this bondage between our souls and our sinful bodies. He "causes this collapse between the heart and the synapse". Oh what hope there is for those in Christ! Seriously, this stuff is prevalent throughout this entire album ("this is the last night in my body. Somehow, for now, this skin will have to do") It sounds kind of weird, but TREOS has Christian and Biblical principles ALL OVER their music. Clearly, whoever wrote their lyrics knew that there's something bigger than just this life. |
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