| Titus Andronicus – Albert Camus Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It was very interesting to find this album (it found me actually) once I was in the process of reading and writing papers on The Stranger, The Myth of Sisyphus, and The Fall by Albert Camus for Freshmen English . I'm gonna try to explain as much as i can, but I'm gonna be a little lazy on the citations. Some of the connections between Camus and this song that I find are: The Absurd--The lines "the more we think, the less it all makes sense/tonight we drink to our general indifference" and "Lamb of God, we think nothing of ourselves at all. So, Death, be not proud because we don't give a fuck about nothing and we only want what we are not allowed. " is reflective of the Absurd. The Absurd is the connection between man's ability to reason (and his desire to know absolutely), the infinite complexity of the world, and the insurmountable gap between the two. (myth A simple example: Man wishes to be God, but only God is God. The "more we think, the less it makes sense" and "we only want what we are not allowed" parts indicate the Absurd and the parts "we drink to our indifference" and "we think nothing of ourselves" indicate the effect of the Absurd, apathy. Innocence--"An apathetic heart of gold" "holding hands and stroking handguns, with pristine souls" Camus' philosophy assumes that people are innocent. "there may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones." (myth 67) The speaker also states to the Lamb of God (a symbol of innocence) "we think nothing of ourselves," which means that we are not innocent or guilty. So is there some grand statement about life from Camus and this song? Kind of. It would take me much more time than I feel like spending to fully examine it. The statement that I do find from them is just that life is what we experience, not what we fantastically wish to experience. (Fantastical in that it is impossible. Wishing to cure cancer can be possible. Wishing to know the exact way God created everything in a human lifetime is not possible.) Just as Sisyphus has to roll a boulder up a mountain for eternity, humanity "wants what we are not allowed" |
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