| Bright Eyes – A Machine Spiritual (In the People's Key) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Solid. I think a synonym here for "float" is "drift", an early 20th-century work The Modern Temper by Krutch may be outdated, but its concepts resonate throughout Bright Eyes' works as man's struggle between the past and the future, and the feeling of lost-ness in the present. I'm impressed that instead, as in Wide Awake and Cassadaga, of searching for present history's anchor in the events of 9/11, Conor is picking back up on WWII/Totalitarianism in view of the growing strength of hate movements in the world. |
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| Bright Eyes – A Machine Spiritual (In the People's Key) Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think it's a homage to an imagined Mother Nature, and Conor/mankind's plea (however undeserved) to the natural world to give humanity a little longer (natural disasters, climate change, a multiplicity of cause/effects that present humanity on an 'eventual' collision with the natural world we came from) because "his day is coming". The end message of the album claims that 'love' and 'enlightenment' in the face of growing fascist (Arizona immigration laws, Fascist/Neo-Nazi movements growing in Europe/Russia, Tea Party hate campaigns) and natural threat will bring humanity into a new age (2012, a self-fulfilling prophecy?). So it is a political, social, economic message...in the face of the All-ness of the world. Perhaps. | |
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