| Collective Soul – All Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Could be about the feeling of being in love with a woman. Or it could be about God, there is a lot of religious phraseology in this song. | |
| Collective Soul – Why - Part 2 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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IMO "Why" is a great name for a song/book/movie and the most important philosophical question any person could answer. Most importanly why "Why?"? What do we hope to acheive by asking the question "Why?". The word refers to a necessary antecedent cause and/or a necessary consequent effect. The question assumes first and foremost that there is a necessary causal relationship between the event and its antecedence or consequence. This creates a vision of reality wherein everything is determined, indeed destined to occur with no apparent beginning or end. While the logical ends seems to be one thing gave rise to everything else, it is not sufficient to answer the question "Why that one thing?" or "Why should that be the case?" whatever answers we find will always beg the question further "Why that?" and thus I wonder "Why ask the question why?". We are left with accepting that the river flows and carries us along with it. Or as Baron D'holbach said "Man who thinks himself free is like the fly in the fable who upon a heavy carriage appluaded himself for directing its course while unknowingly being carried along by it." |
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| Collective Soul – Why - Part 2 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Serpent Satellite" Keep in mind Collective Soul makes frequent religious references. The Serpent from the Old Testament was temptation and a "Satellite" defined by Merriam Webster is "1: a hired agent or obsequious follower : minion, sycophant". He is basically saying the individual is behaving in a sinful manner. I'm not convinced this song is about relationships or even about a girl in particular. I find many of Collective Souls lyrics to relate to more esoteric philosophical or theological concepts. However they do seem to often illustrate this by an interaction between two people. Sort of the way Thomas Aquinas wrote, there is a name for it but I cannot recall it. It is where the author writes statements both by a proponent and an objector. |
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