| Deerhunter – Desire Lines Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think this song is a very beautiful addition to Deerhunter's already rich thoughtful melodic stuff... to me it talks about the dichotomy of existence...as children, finding joy was simple because you trusted your life to others (your parents) as we become adults we search through all kinds of ways to fill the void the develops as the complete and utter trustful dependence on others shifts into a reliance on ourselves. we try to fill these voids with a self salvation of sorts- work, family, friends, sex, drugs, booze...."whatever goes up must come down" ...indicates the transient nature and non-dependable nature of these dependencies. "Walking free. Come with me. Far away. Everyday."---Walk with Christ to the Christian is a teneat of old Pauline Christianity to leave dependence to the intransient love of God and dependence on Him to be free...something people in stages of Christian faith growth have firm understanding of. Of course Buddhist philosophy as one poster already alluded to can also be a route to selfless dependence on the eternal rather than the temporal, earthly fillers of our search for completeness. This song says look to where we were when we were content and rich and walk with Him or him in the road to returning to complete freedom and contentment. |
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