| Bon Iver – Creature Fear Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| The 'anonymous' creature metaphor is something I've seen pop up in multiple lyrics before, and the lyrics often revolve around the same interpretation of this creature. In this song, I think of this creature as being the collective subconscious. It's the inner self within us that we don't want to reveal to others out of fear of becoming too vulnerable, so we spend our entire lives mastering the different masks we put on to influence people in ways that are favorable to us. In this regard, this creature could be thought of as this powerful consciousness within us that wants to break out and evolve out of the suffering that has binded the world for so long, but instead we hold back in fear and quarantine ourselves from such madness. | |
| Atlas Sound – Logos Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Logos = the "word" in classical rhetoric. Logos is the king of life because language is the king of life, the blood of reasoning that allows humanity to make sense out of our existence as we float through vast emptiness on this giant, rock vessel without going insane. "Spirits drifting in the night Will they ever find their way?" It's what guides and restricts humanity towards something that may be better than what is. Something, an idea perhaps, better than the idea that preceded it. "Fights away the decay" of dangerous ideas (Nazism, racism, etc.) It restricts because at one time, these dangerous ideas were favorable to many people. Cox romanticizes the glory of Logos: "Everything was bathed in light. Everything loved it's way. Everything makes sense when you. Look at it from another way" A dissolution of human suffering; enlightenment; nirvana, Heaven on earth, etc. Humanity is always subconsciously pushing towards some sort of Heaven on Earth (Quick Canal). God "created the world in 7 days"... through Logos. He told Adam (or Eve?) to start naming everything they saw around them. To produce something out of nothing. How could the world have been anything before without the "word" to guide it into being? Sure, we can easily assume through science that the world has existed before humans, but it is Logos that started humanity onto its divine mission. Why else is there a constant battle between whether or not religion or science is more superior than the other? The "word" pervades all of them. Logos is one of my all time favorite albums for its profound simplicity (Person Pitch stands close to it, and was probably an influence on this album). I found its content to be openly interpretable at first, but upon many repeated listens, it's clear to me that the album is sort of a romanticized appraisal to the concept of God. Simplicity and chaos sort of act as a metaphor for the concept behind the album as simplicity (clarity, oneness) seem to be trying to break out through the chaos that envelops many of the songs (the light that failed, quick canal) Each song in a sense is a hymn. Criminals is a simple hymn of morality and ethics. Sheila is sort of a ballad towards the irony of love and death. So ya... anyways, there's my interpretation |
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