| Tool – Lateralus Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I seem to be commenting a bit late here, but I would rather place my response here rather at the back of the bus. Yes, the mathematical formula is very interesting. -Black -and -white are -all I see -in my infancy -red and yellow then came to be ...and so on. the syllables form the pattern of 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8. This is the Fibonacci sequence and is actually present in nature almost constantly. from the curvature of nautilus shells to the branching of tree arms. just google Fibonacci sequence in nature to see for yourself. As for the relevance to the song, this might connect to the natural order of the universe and that which "is so more" that we currently understand" the Fibonacci curve is also alluded to in the lyrics "spiral down" repeated many times in the song. I actually find it kind of ironic that Maynard would include a message of "over thinking and over analyzing" yet include a hidden motif such as this. Thoughts? |
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| Anathema – Closer Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| I find that the song can be taken as a comment on sublimity. The Dream world is a spiritual state and is the closest thing that humans have to understanding the sublime (the infinity that is the entirety of the universe, which is by definition unknowable), which is both monstrous and beautiful; ie. "scary place" and "closer to the truth". Just read Kant's work on the sublime, It can be a tough read but very worth while. | |
| Ulver – Gnosis Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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I think that strangestangel hit the mark on the correction. Also, if any of you Ulver fans have read anything by Derrida; I wonder if you caught any connection to how the song states the inability of the speaker to convey his thoughts effectively so he decides not to say anything at all rather than be misunderstood. Derrida speaks of the same when he talks of the Father (Author) being separated from the Son (piece of writing). Once this occurs, the intention of the father/author is lost by the separation of the son/work. The son in effect kills the father, and this is where the defilement that strangestangel talks about comes in. The beauty of the speaker's understanding of the sublime cannot be conveyed without corruption. Oh, and whole bit about science in the beginning is about how science is a false ruler that tells us that 'the spirit' doesn't exist, and our reliance on it hinders our ability to understand it. Especially since "Gnosis" translates into Knowledge, I think that this point of view fits particularly well. And Strangestangel, the song is not just agreeing with Rimbaud. The entire song is reworked from his poem "A Season in Hell". I think that You may have known that already but it was not clearly expressed and it should be known for other readers. |
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| Gojira – The Art Of Dying Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Actually, I find that this song is speaking of the act of self death that is also seen in The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley. Both works portray the self as something that causes selfishness (attachment to "material") and reliance on the physical world, while ignoring the transcendent world. The art of dying is a killing of the self-identity (akin to Buddhist "no-self"). The realization that the speaker has about how he has "never closed [his] eyes in a long time" suggest his ignorance to the "other world" while relying on the sensual world for truth. The traveling light is figurative as well as literal. Of course one cannot take personal belongings into the afterlife, but one must also learn to live without the self so as to leave all attachments to the physical world with the self and create a peaceful idea of death instead of an idea full of resentment for what one loses. | |
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