| Peter Gabriel – My Body Is A Cage (Arcade Fire cover) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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In the bible there is an allegory of a wedding, and "a wedding" with god - a commitment to him (and of course - love and connection). This song reminds me a situation that called "ad klot" - which means in hebrew: "until the last breath" - a situation in which the person who believes in god and feel the harmony and spirituality, is yearning for the life after death - for being able to experience the soul solely, purely. This situation is forbidden, for a person to want it i mean.. he have to want to be where he is (in this life). Not in a way that means that if person experience this feeling - we should kill him or something (of course not), but it means it's forbidden, and any action or thought is between god and the person himself. The reason it is forbidden is that the religious jewish people know that if god puts you in some place, it means you can handle the situation well, even if you find it hard to believe, so you should trust him and remember he wants your best. So this song reminds me of this situation, which is not simple because you have so many times you feel you want to be all fulled with this huge light only, without the body's burden of materialistic plasures. "my body is a cage that keeps me from dancing with the one I love"... Anywayyy ,wow that was long, these lines: "I'm living in an age that calls darkness light" - also connected to this world that "screams my name at night, But when I get to the doorway, There's no one in sight" - materialism, control, pride, shiningness, glory, accusations, competitivenes... when i get to the doorway there's no one in sight, there is nothing really in those things... kinds of illusions, lies we have to deal with, and break it with reason. Beautiful and hurting song. |
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| Eddie Vedder – Society Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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"This part confused me too, and that's actually the reason that I searched for this song." Me too! :) After i read your interpretation to this part, i suddenly understand what is my interpretation to this. This part helped me specifically: "The problem and confusing part with the song-writer's train of thought is (I think) that he is mixing a materialistic person with a non-materialistic person." And I suddenly feel a full understanding with those sentences the poet wrote. I wrote that I FEEL understanding because logically it is really complicated i think. In my opinion this part is great because it reflects the complexity of life or of a person really well, by this confusion. The thing is, i see it the way i want to see it - and what i want to see is that the poet didn't write this part refering to a materialist nor a non-materialistic person, but i'd like to think he refered to more "human" person - a person who is combined with both materialism and spirituality, and those two in him wrestle one with another. Something bothered me, and that's how i got to think of this part in this song, and yet, i had a hard time to figure it out. That thing that bothered me was that i feel so tired all the time, and it makes do an increadible effort to live the way i want, selflessly, so sometimes i stumble and feel so bad about myself. very bad. And I would like to be much less tired, but i can't. So I thought about the possibility of a person to stay awake while he is tired, and be pleased with that, and accept it and maybe be less angry that way, and more peaceful with being satisfied dispite the unfulfilled necessity. And yet, this is very very hard to feel this way. So that's what i meant with the complexity of a person. He wants to struggle his material needs, but sometimes he feels unhappy with this unfulfilled need and so he finds himself angry about himself behaving "materialistic way". So maybe this person WANTS to be a non-materialistic person, but is not totally that way (he's human). |
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