| Līve – Run To The Water Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Through love, our souls/spirits can transcend this dreamworld of time. First verse "Oh desert....": A man is asking a woman to tell him her secret. He is a logical, rational man, not emotional or spiritual ("i will not be moved"). Yet, he is intrigued by something about her, something that doesn't make sense: Although her circumstances are barren ("desert," "weep") she is fruitful ("maker of children / birth"). Perhaps she is a single mom (her children "weep for love.") Her reply: You want to know my secret? You can't find it by logic, reason, or science. "Don't try to find the answer when there ain't no question here." Rather, you find it by opening up your heart to love. Don't be afraid of love, passion, emotion. "Let your heart be wounded." Next verse ("Adam and Eve....") is about how rare love is, how fallen this world is. But we can transcend this fallen world through love. "We lost our minds here and lay our spirit down:" We had been crazy to get so caught up in worldly things that we neglected the spiritual. The good book says that with God a day is like a thousand years and vice versa. God obviously transcends time, and we can too, through love. Chorus: "Water" represents this love, what the barren "desert" really needs and weeps for. The problems of this world burn us "to the core," but if we have love, this world can never break us. In fact, we will "cut through [its] madness." "Streets below the moon" again signifies the temporal nature of this world and the darkness of night, all its problems, but how love shines in the darkness. "I will never leave you till" death do us part - love. Waking up from this babylon world to the true light of love. All our problems and struggles - though so real and painful - will be "just a dream" when we finally transcend them through love. "Dreamt the world was round" - relied so heavily on science, reason, logic, focused on this world, that we neglected love, emotion, spirituality. "Fall from grace" - As in, fell away from traditional Christianity, just tried to follow science, reason, logic. Kept falling, never landed - falling falling falling on a trajectory that took us past science & logic to something deeper - a robust spirituality of love and emotion, that encompasses traditional Christianity but is not limited by it. "the breakin' of waves / tribulation" could mean the struggle to make new love last. Or persecution by those in this world who have not yet embraced love. Or it could be death. Anyway, you must pass through it to really love, to really transcend. "It's a place and a home of ascended souls Who swam out there in love!" Heaven is eternal, heaven is now, heaven is reached by love, heaven transcends this world. Heaven is represented by the deeper water of love, past "the breakin' of waves." "Rest easy:" love is restful & refreshing like water - like Jesus says, "Come to me all you who are weary and I will give you rest." "Recognize it all as light and rainbows smashed to smithereens and be happy:" This is her secret! Though her life here is like a barren desert, she doesn't let all the problems get her down. She recognizes that every trial and tribulation is like a beam of light or a rainbow that has been smashed into many fragments. Even in the brokenness, there is beauty. Love puts it all back together again. The breaking of waves - waves are water, they break, they come back together. Water and light both represent love, the essence of spirituality. A rainbow is both water and light. Run to the water, find me there! |
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| Līve – All Over You Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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At first, I thought the lyrics were "I love you, black water," and since there's a song by Frank Zappa about "Let's make the water turn black," I wanted to know the meaning of "black water" but I figured it was something deviant and wicked. Then, when someone told me Live is Buddhist (which I now realize was not accurate), I thought it was about the fundamental oneness of all things (you, me, the sun, the moon, the fields, the sky, the tides the sea, all are one in Buddhism), so all love is love for me since I am all and all is me. Then, when reading the "pay me now, lay me down" lyric, I thought it was about (siamese?) twin lesbian prostitutes (apologies for the vulgar imagery). Finally, I realize that either Songdreamer or Fredou is right. You are the maestros! I am not worthy. |
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| Līve – The Dam At Otter Creek Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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it's a funeral wail! isn't that how you feel when grieving over the death of a loved one? If only you could "be here now!" "flanked by love" - love is a solid constant, in the background during grief, but still present like the good book says, "Love is stronger than death" |
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| Līve – I Alone Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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it's about an affair between a priest (or other clergy) and a woman (who comes to confession?) "I sank into eden with you alone in the church by and by" she ends up having a baby by him, but it's a secret, no-one knows who the real father is, except the two of them sometimes she brings the baby to the church when no-one but the father is around so he can be with her and his child "we long to be here by his resolve alone in the church by and by to cradle the baby in space" maybe they get carried away again - doing the same old thing they used to do before baby came along! "oh, no, we took it back to far" the priest (or other clergy) exercises some kind of twisted spiritual authority over her "i alone love you, i alone tempt you" although religion / spirituality is supposed to free us, unfortunately in this case it leaves her in spiritual bondage "the greatest of teachers (Christ or his church, in this case represented by a hypocritical clergyman) won't hesitate to leave you there by yourself chained to fate" In other words, the woman comes to church or confession seeking deliverance but instead falls into sin with the very one who is supposed to help her. He does nothing to save her, but instead leaves her "chained" to her fallen state, and according to the church's teachings on the road to hell (her ultimate fate) However, there is hope: "fear is not the end of this" "only love can save us now" The songwriter is saying that by overcoming fear of hell, fear of what people will think & say, fear of the clergy losing his job & reputation, etc., the lovers can truly embrace their love for each other with nothing to hide, and they will truly love and respect each other when they stop trying to hide everything and stop feeling guilty about their love. |
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