| 10 Years – Cast It Out Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The main message: have the inner strength to 'cast it out' - the past if it is past (memories) and the present if need be - relationships often end way after they are over, and in the meantime, you can feel more alone than if you were actually alone and single. I like anonymous girl's interpretation best (and no, i didnt read them all i just found the first one that spoke to me), it is exactly how I feel except for one thing. The eyes bleed dry part, I think refers instead to the opposite. It is crying (like bleeding it is a flowing) tears until your eyes are red and dry (the blood reference's explanation is in the metaphor of color and because you cry from wounds like you bleed). This supports the idea that there is love there, they DO care, but the incompatibility is too prominent. The end draws them closer because once they give up the obligation of the relationship and realize they were trying to be what they could not, they can have a better relationship. They can still love things about each other, they can be friends. They need to cast this painful thing out, and move on. That is the resonant last line, simply put 'çast it out'. Symbolically, the song continues without words, it represents an end but one that continues - On to less painful things. In addition I think that this may be from a third view person observing someone in this relationship, not a person in it. Maybe the suggestion of a new suitor that they are not the one from the past. OR maybe not, but if it is someone in the relationship, they feel more like they are observing. Loneliness listens to their problems, they don't talk about things anymore. They are observing more than acting. I looked up the symbolic meaning of the "nine". One of the symbolic representations is, 3X3 = 9, thus, it is perfection, the symbol of virile power and associated with the couple. Casting out visions of nine is like casting out your belief in the relationship, in it's ability to be perfect or even the specific relationship mentioned's ability to exist at all. This seems negative until you love again, wherein it is necessary to TRULY start over. Cast out the past: Love is like starting over With every step engraving the problems of memories - learn that the engraved problems (realized from memories) are not a necessary pattern of life, if only we always married the right person, the world would not have to realize this problem; however, it does at times stumble upon the revelation, it often becomes evident that we can be just as alone in a relationship without communication. Except in this case, you're fully reminded that you feel alone because the continuous presence of the person you chose to end the very feeling, who is seemingly holding the key to the freedom needed to eventually feel not-alone. It doesn't have to exist in and outside of every relationship. But if it's wrong, have the strength to cast it out. |
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| RA – Supernova Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Ugh the Not-Predicted part in at the very end was the circumstances in which they wer NOT correct. Oh and the whole point of the stuff above was to foreshadow a model. It is that the righteous metaphorically, right before its over, light up the sky like a super nova and turn into a neutron star. They look much smaller, because so much of their outer layer was blown off, now they are more dense, burn with a stronger fire, give off way more light (they are in fact seen as purely white = purity). Overall, they have become unworldly and go to paradise. the opposite is true of the evil man. He, instead, is the black whole. Not only is he destructive to others, but he also ends right there - either because God doesn't exist and s he just disappears or because God does and he, like a black hole will have swallowed up all that that "matter"ed. With no more matter, The person represented by the black whole then, may as well be gone. Also there are still some low level connections, like black holes being black, dark, like a place that such a person will be stuck at. That Black holes cannot create, only destroy, and the neuron star produces heat and light, which are life sustaining for the human race. Ahh, this was NOT spell checked. So, if there were lame semantic mistakes, or grammatical trivial mistakes, you had better not mention them. Oh and in case you missed the big news, earlier today, I became facebook friends with Sahaj! It made my day, which isnt saying much there, but still. YOU LIIGHT THE SKY UP JUST LIKE A SUUPEERNOOOVAAAAAAA |
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| RA – Supernova Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I forgot to include a very plausible interpretation: What if a Supernova metaphorically describes the transition into the afterlife. First, I break people into 2 broad groups. ATHEISTIC (OR AGNOSTIC) Predicted Outcome A)Result: Correct B)What Happens: Blink out of existence C)Implications: If body dies, the soul dies. Cruelly, this entails that Atheists never learn that they were right, since the instant the body stops living depicts the final boundary of life, and there is no soul to live on to this realization. It ends when the breathing stops. But oh, if only,.... Death apportioned justly, a diminutive payment of time, each on the basis of how strongly held were their conviction to Atheism. The Atheist could triumphantly declare, "I told you so", and jeer foolish-believers for wasting Sunday mornings. A)Outcome: Incorrect B)What Next: Depends on the transcendent reality of the world, which is true? C)Implications: Face true spirituality's version of eternal punishment. THE BELIEVERS (Something Spiritual or Religious) Predicted A)Outcome: Correct B) What Next: You believed in what was true, you have chosen wisely. C) Implications: People's beliefs don't have to fit preconceived Religions, only that the transcendent being or conditions of belief that that entity sets as prerequisite, are all believed in. IF you believe that it is less based in institutional differences and have a less formal connection, one that is more spiritual or altogether non-religions, it does not imply you are likelier to go to hell. Maybe you believe that we are all taking different routes to the same God, if that were true all believers would relieve the same reward. Not-Predicted A)Result: Correct B)What Happens: Blink out of existence C)Implications: The other size of the coin here, is that believers in some transendent power never get the chance to know that they were wrong. The will die and poof out of existence just like atheists, not knowing who was right. The supernova, if it were a metaphor for the afterlife, would be this. Firstly, it fits well into this mold. When it happens |
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| RA – Supernova Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Ok, this is my favorite song so I HAVE to try (daunting as it is). The one thing I do know is from the footnote for the song on the album. 2009- When the sun dies it sinks in on itself until it reaches a critical density and releases a massive amount of energy called a supernova... it either dies or lives on to become a black hole. A supernova, being either the star or the very explosion of it, is one that suddenly collapses on itself to its core and becomes way brighter, much denser, and far smaller. It is a very dramatic change, in a metaphorical sense. Directly relating to the song, to "Light up the sky like a supernova" would be a radical and amazing visual display. Who is "you"? Perhaps someone that he cares about, or maybe a more permeating force. The latter is suggested in the first stanza. And now I close the door Melding a resurrection Living through every war I underscore the pain Windows of fantasy Shadows of expectations Drowning in agony I set this body free Here, there is an action that cannot be reversed. It is the culmination of a change that has hidden meaning (melded). But it is not just the end of what was, it is also rebirth, into something new. A black hole or a neuron star? Hopefully for the latter, as resurrection seems to oust becoming something that will die after destroying all that is around it. Becoming nothingness - this sounds very unattractive. I believe that resurrection is what will be. Otherwise Sahaj is just wondering about it, whether this supernova metaphor will die or be reborn. Like a supernova becoming a neutron star, which lights up and begins burning brighter and becoming denser and hotter it will seem smaller but be more powerful. Maybe it is the band itself - just a thought. They have underscored pain, especially in From One. They give us windows of fantasy, like their metaphors and spiritual imagery. They live through wars, both in that they wrote something that will outlive their deaths in it's own manner, and for the less direct meaning that wars refers to conflict. They display these shadows with fictitious characters, either copied from real life or created, and their coming together under an album theme, all displaying similar patterns. This creates expectations, as if shown by shadows they show in their songs. I believe the writings on the wall I don't regret at all I never played the game Part of me will always see the sun As if it just begun To be the only one Who knew what I became Writings on the wall is a recurring image, I don't know the meaning, but I guess it's something like a message that he believes in. Maybe like a prophesy of some past writer or their own. It is believed in, so much so that it was enough to write it on walls, to keep it with us, like Egyptian art - hieroglyphics in tombs for spiritual guidance. This is not just hope, he more than hopes it's true. It is more to him, is IS true. He doesn't regret adhering to this belief, not playing a 'game' in his life may our interactions and relationships, figuratively. Part of him always seeing the sun. My best guess, is that this is about the celestial bodies' constancy and what it represents in one way - it is a guiding force that will always be there. It is a spiritual metaphor that persists no matter what occurs in his life. It doesn't fade, like it just began anew each day. The band being Ra, the sun god, it may be alluded to by this. Maybe the band truly knows him? Maybe its his wife, as she could be a constant presence who truly knows him? Maybe its his connection to higher power in the universe that is all-knowing? Either way, it knows who he was and is today. This different from what many people thinks he is. On what level, i can't begin to know, it is too vague here. The chorus, Lighting up the sky just before its over is an extension of the metaphor of the supernova. It goes out with a bang and is reborn or dies. Hopefully it is not a farewell from the band and that the footnote was metaphorically connected but not in this way. The whole spoken section: It scares me to think that its an extension of the band metaphor. Basically, time is against Sahaj or whatever idea or person he is speaking as. The ticking of the moments seems a countdown, they are like broken waves in the desert. Here everything is the same, except the broken waves, and maybe time is the only thing that seems really extant. They are broken, not perfect and time reflects a hindsight that is not perfectly represented. The past can seem often better than it really was, the present too conflicted, the future, far to unresolved. Lolling envy cascading was hard, but this could be a reference to an expectation that was never attained. The following supports this. All there is, seems to be resent for what could have been not becoming true. It is what was was reached up for. I hope it isn't true, but the one thing I don't want to believe: that it could be the far-too-typical comments on Ra music; that they SHOULD be more popular and have gotten more viewers and more listeners. The numbing effect of this public opinion, it has a way of making everyone diminish their focus, forgetting a bit about the music itself and never being content. Whatever the meaning, the subject of the spoken words forgot to simply appreciate what was or are distracted from it. Only talking about how it should be even better, like suggesting a plunge into that deplorable mainstream music scene. I have heard about in Ra discussion, sounds like a horrible place. Maybe that idea of needing to be even better was a childish barrier all along but it is melting away now, right before its over. I hope it being over, if the previous interpretation is true, that what is over is only the barriers not the sun itself. I would welcome their lighting up the sky into a resurrected neuron star, so long as they remain a star. And the arrow that someone dared aimed that high made a mark on the sun itself, so who shot the arrow? Maybe everyone did, maybe it was a single person and the collective inference is misplaced. But the arrow still effected the supernova, expectation is definitely that part of the song, for me that is. The consoling evidence against it is Sahaj's past tendency to speak from a different view than his own. He often gives us a view that is partly his own, but with double 'voicedness' that 'dialogically' demonstrates his take on another sentient point of view or lifestyle. Also he says "me" in certain parts. The view point may change per stanza and there is is a "you". Either that or it is all one point of view, and he refers to being lost in the star, and that it explodes, maybe because he (the speaker) is ready to break the cycle Conversely, he could be talking to the speaker of the other stanza, complimenting on or about each other, both about the same thing. The "me" is lost in the star, and the "you", is the star. He talks first about himself. The chorus about you exploding. So, in this I guess he may just be explaining a role in something larger than just himself. I hope its just a love or devotional song. Or hey, it could always be a reference to addiction... no, I was just kidding. Lastly, the never ending cycle, that tears in him and doesn't heal. The moment is causing suffering, it is something like the wind, and it sets him back and he falls, being knocked down. Magical empathy and pathways, displaying to us that there were important choices and relationships to people or spiritual things. Like hope that is inherently needed in order for there even to be a let down, the stanza seems to be chronological. It starts with walking the way. Not just a way, THE way. A path that he knows is right, from where he can see other gateways. Even though he is walking the way, doing what he thinks right, he can't help the downfall he suffers at the hand of the 'wind'. This force is a very transient and unpredictable force, like human life and the everyday occurrences and trivialities that all represent something larger when viewed in a broader context. It is something out of one's control. Maybe it is choice, a hard choice, and a conflict that must be changed. It is the ending of this cycle. "it is gone": if it is about time, it is always gone every second, but it could be something else. It could be a specific moment in time, a pivotal one. Like i said before, the resurrection of the supernova or its tragic malignant death. The neuron star, its core elements still there, may be what remains. It is the same entity but also radically new. So, I just wanted to throw out ideas to get conversation going. Even if only to piss someone off enough to hear another meaning for the song. |
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| RA – Rectifier Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Warning: An adderall infused Production - this comment may include excessively analyzed material about From One//Ra lyrics which, may not be suitable for children. [Rated PG -'Too Much Free Time'] by the American Free Time Association. Hmm, no, not much of an actual "comment" is it.... I listened to various interviews and partly about this song. I did not get the full interview (would have had to pay for it) so I don't know if he had additional things to say. First, a generalization that Sahaj (lead singer, song writer) made about the album "From One": Every song, according the Sahaj, was about an interpretation of a form//experience of loneliness. He also said they have a viewpoint from a person in confinement, stuck in their current position. That they are stuck like that, we may have unconsciously assumed but perhaps didn't realize, seeing as though we typically avoid feeling truly alone. If we are, we want to get out of this situation. Perhaps what is left is introspection, and that can be dangerous. At times this leads to realization, perhaps that we lacked the means to prevent what happened, or worse - we made all the wrong decisions. Maybe we still don't possess the means or the answers to escape it. Some Forethought on the album: After learning this, since I knew these aspects would be present in From One, I often saw it for the first time in certain places. Sometimes it is present in thoughts about the loss(es) that lead to this overall sense of loneliness or descriptions about the speakers life. Often it's like you are hearing a sort-of scattered and cryptic monologue. In the latter case, the audience then experiences the characters present feelings or hears about aspects of their situations, learning about their current lonely existence. We often see it permeating decisions//motivations that are being rationalized. For instance, in this song the character depicted by the singer, primarily restrained by the circumstances, he must reach absolution through his own efforts. We see this desire in the line "So far to go to reach absolution". In this sense, he is alone, even while there are people around him. Worse though, is that he fully knows it or feels it is true. He also states specific conditions tied to pain from loving relationships gone awry - which is typical in the album. It is worth noting that Rectifier is a unique example in "From One" because only here does Sahaj, as he explained in a different part of the interview, speak as the character who directly experienced what is expressed in the lyrics; they were at one point or another all true; they were his circumstances of loneliness and they lead, in part, to the lyrics for Rectifier. That is, it is partly a description of what he felt about his own life, albeit true that temporally variable aspects may only have been true during a certain time in ones life. Notwithstanding, the song is experienced as thoughts from someone in a lonely and conflicted state of mind. As mentioned before, this is in keeping with a theme, where archetypes or more or less specific characters feel as if they are stuck in the same situation over a period of time, all the while experiencing things that create an overall similarity across all songs. The various positions in "From One" vary in the extent of this aspect or how it was felt. For example, in parole it is simply a story about someone who just got off on parole and started stalking the person of his obsession. In Do You Call My Name it is Manic Depression that is felt from many viewpoints. From meaning in From One, Rectifier can be better interpreted, specifically, the parts of this song about failure in loving relationships and the resulting pain. These are attributable to the underlying theme, present in real life for Sahaj. Two specific aspects in this song that demonstrate this are the vagrant lover prisoner and the "On broken hearts I cut myself". In these we see loneliness embodied by painful experience of former companionship and also as seemingly inexorable confinement to emotional solitude. Now, I move to lyrics for this song in particular. I'm paraphrasing many statements from Sahaj's description of Rectifier but it is still my interpretation. However, it's mostly from what he said, which can be deep and elusive just like the lyrics' meanings themselves. Overall, this is NOT just my own contrived conclusion but the details are still always speculative: Firstly, and for reasons later described, we must realize that the singer is, in fact the 'rectifier'. It is Sahaj. To explain this, it's interesting to note that Sahaj takes perspectives into consideration in various songs, for instance, in Do You Call My Name, there are three different speakers - one in each verse. But here there is only one. The conflict in the song is shown in the idea that you can't always be the nice guy in life; sometimes you have to go "And put good intention up on the shelf". When you do, the self may be in conflict, or at least here our character's morality inspired point of view is pitted against necessary yet detrimental choices. In the time described, as the dialog ensues throughout the song (it is inner monologue when akin to language, it speaks like a conversation with one's conscious), we see that he was trying to make things go right and had good intention. However, he always had to change these things by himself. He is the only speaker and the only rectifier here, the same one who he dares himself not to be so, and while he was not the only one trying he was the only one changing things. The choices he made caused certain outcomes, which he refers to only by mention of the things that went wrong; things that are now causing images that appear to him, depicted by spiritual metaphor, as they are haunting him, as "ghosts that can see me" and "chaos" which is "beneath his skin". When he says, "why don't you care", and, "don't, don't you dare", he's asking himself, doubting his action and intention. The choices facing him now bring fear that things will end up going the wrong way again, bringing others pain. He ruminates on this opposition, but also his recognition of the unavoidable choices for his position, that is, his need to rectify the situation via action, even if it means hurting others. He recognizes that sometimes you have to be aggressive, and initiate. That is why he ends the song critically, leaving us with the evoked image of an, "aggressive action batterer", which i think may be an overemphasized and emotionally charged self-condemnation. Perhaps it is half heartedly spoken by his conscious, which he believes had to be ignored. Perhaps this belief is a response to human nature, which often makes us regret far too often or far too strongly. If we hurt others, this belief is a aegis for peace of mind, which leads him to self-acceptance, it replaces this typical regret, lends assurance, saying "The action was justified, it was necessary." Sahaj also made reference about wondering why it is that that you always have to go back to who or what you trust the most. Then he said the thing he trusts most, is himself. I think the unanswerd 'when' portion of this comment is - whenever you're feeling that there is a necessity, so to speak, 'to rectify' - when you try and get out of your solitary confinement and break free, perhaps alluded to by "a chain with no linkage" - a double entendre because, in having no linkage the chain is also alone, where it should be held by adjacent pieces of chain on both ends. In these sort of times, you need to make choices and in doing so you first confide in a trusted source. For another person who trusts in something or someone else more than they trust themselves, necessarily, it becomes a different situation. An example of this an alternative fitting of Sahaj's spiritual song writing tendency would be trust in God more than yourself. You would confide in God and not be reliant on a self-determined outcome - He would be your rectifier and make the choices - then in tragedy ask God if HE doesn't care or beg HIM not to dare. Go to the source in order to change the outcome; convince the rectifier of your point of view and you are partially in control. However, be weary of this course of action in the world of "From One". Those who confide comfortably in love and trust those who MUST rectify their own life, can become emotional casualties and learn to beg the sad question, "don't you care?". When fleeting love reigns, it would prove a mistake to be vulnerable. Perhaps it's safer to rectify your social life defensively, but then again, you can't ensure you won't end up alone - the rectifier is alone too. It's almost as if, no one can avoid loneliness altogether, as it comes in many forms with varied guises. What is left is for you to choose: whether to take emotional risks, initiate change or sit idly by, be defensive or vulnerable, or just skip it all. Why not choose nothing altogether - become like a leaf gusting across an endless tundra - alone, the only leaf around - with in inescapable affliction but not that laborious and futile desire to escape it. For me, the solution is to accept loneliness when you must but to still risk//avoid it. The only thing to change is whether to fear it. But perhaps this brings self-preservation. In the song he yells his ideas but in the background a surreptitious whispering tells of cynical//realist beliefs. We find a world where pleas made by the vulnerable for moral adherence fall on deaf ears, even their very own, where the hero does not listen to orders from mountaintops where deities call home and the ethical man is not always moral because sometimes good intentions only enter into life in our own minds. You see, the cause of pain was motivated by a need for ending one's own loneliness and, in one sense, loneliness can rectify life. But, so too, can it become a sad story of dualistic tragedy that causes people to shatter hearts, getting "cut on the glass", while they also create new loneliness in others. By the very same feeling, it recreates itself. And it may not solve itself in the rectifier's life. As such, it is the double-edged sword of society, striking the heart of the world on both poles. Here it is simply the writers qualm; he is questioning himself, aligning his intention with his morality. All the while, loneliness and confinement - a general backdrop or a sort of guide for our understanding. It underlies imagery and feelings expressed and it leads the song purposively into conflict. It brings characters to paths whose directions ironically place them on a roundabout journey, paths that lead in many directions but all to and from nothing worldly with lasting higher significance. That is, unless on paths already traversed, in which walking back we arrive at a scene ruined by regret where we expected to see a scene from our memory, where happiness with our love we used to be. The conflict is not resolved in "From One", it is purely realized. That job is for the next album. Lastly Sahaj's comments created the sense that, at that time he was stuck in this situation. For a span of time, feeling that he couldn't get out of what became a recurrent pattern, all the while trying, he sought to rectify what caused him to want change. He endured difficulty in doing so. He got tired, especially his soul, because it is the source of many difficulties for a rectifier depicted in his lyrics about how his "sanity and soul wear thin". Rectifier is purposively laced with spirituality, as all Ra songs are. Sahaj believes spirituality is the most appealing aspect of being alive. It is a higher meaning that is not found in relationships with people, where it cannot be broken by these failures and pains. There is a distinction between this and religion, as such this song would not be "Christian" or any other designation. It is simply spiritual, lonely, conflicting and in my opinion it is like most Ra songs... It is awesome. They could have many meanings. Fortunately for me, I heard the true one and then thought about it and maybe mine is still not the best one. They are my favorite band. Deep lyrics, cryptic and beautifully constructed. |
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| RA – Do You Call My Name Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Here is a link to a few interview things with Shahaj, the lead singer describesttp://listenin.org/player/playshow.aspx?Show=/Themes/listenin/player/MakePostPlaylist.ashx%3fPlaylistOrder%3d795,786,797,804,787,790,799,792,801,796&Title=home+page |
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| Our Lady Peace – Somewhere Out There Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Although this is technically a response for something that was posted a long time ago.... AND since the site has it different than what two other sites had... I think it is actually: And all we are Is all so far This seems more accurate. In and of itself, it could broadly mean that everything that we are in the current is a culmination of our past. If you take the song as a love song or simply a dedication to a significant person in one's life, it would seem that he's saying a relationship for someone will be, in the present, a representation of all that has happened to them in the past - whether this includes portions of being broken-up or time apart. He also seemingly advises us to remember that, what seems to an ending, could also just be something intermittent, esp when this period brings about self-realization instead of self destruction. This could be true, both for the person in the mindset of the writer and for the person he is thinking about and hoping comes back. |
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