| Matthew Good – Shallow's Low Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"Forty days and forty nights Learn to swim you'll be all right - In Noahs Ark they were left at sea on the boat with animals for 40 days and 40 nights when god punished the world. Learn to swim and be alright- survive the struggle of change, and this resetting of the world as it was flooded with water. If you do survive and change your ways, youll be better than before. "Pull the pin and see the light" - We gotta say goodbye to our current ways of life, possession-based, externally driven, inequality, ongoing wars, excessive stress. Kill the current worlds way. "Ya, we're all shallow's low" "Down the dawn treader" - the dawn treader refers to the boat that sails to the edge of the world when the world was thought to be flat. Sailing to the egde of the world, to a new frontier. Reference to these waters coincides with the 40 days and nights of noahs ark. This could highlight the journey to a new way of living, expectedly enlightened relative to the current. "All lies the love letters" -Refers to the emptyness or fakeness in what could seem so good. So the emptyness of our current living "Know the maiden always" - Know the innocence that is exemplified by the maiden (virgin or unmarried woman), that is purity, humility, humanity, whatever. I think the girls voice in this song, sounding very innocent, suggests the feminine description of the maiden. Its like Jungs anima, divine feminine, guide to self actualization and individuation. The a greater being. "We're all shallow's low " - Our current state |
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| Matthew Good – What If I Can't See The Stars Mildred? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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| Matthew Good – What If I Can't See The Stars Mildred? Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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"I start the day Picture a house On fire Inside" -The house/body/mind is on fire, that is, undergoing upheaval of many discomforting thoughts as you start the day and enter the world, entering all that is uniform while trying to hold on to what is individually you. "These guys, they try to put it out I go down the stairs, rub my eyes and stand there Wonder why I can't just kick them out If I look crazy Wonder what the fuck's with everyone else" -it could mean society, mostly capitalist, trying to put the fire out by brainwashing us to conform to consumerisms, fads, beleif systems etc. Dumbfounded (rubbing eyes standing there), you wonder why you cant fully (if you try) escape the compulsion to conform to that norm and society expectation. Their in your head now! Or in otherwords, your persona's taking over more than your comfortable with, and you wonder why you have so little individual control despite living in a democratic society. "If i look crazy"- how you will be the outcast if you do not conform and behave and look just like everyone else. "What the fucks with everyone else"- really, its them who are so fucked up and lost. Unaware of their lack of self, individuality etc. Zombies, robots, walking dead etc. Empty on the inside "Gotta, gotta wait for it Wait for it Gotta gotta" -keep waiting buddy as nothing looks like it will be changing anytime soon "Do you walk out the door?" -Should you just be your own self and follow your own path? "Baby you gotta do what you've gotta do" -Maybe you gotta fluctuate between yourself and your persona to function in this world "What if I can't see the stars, Mildred?" -But if you dont strive for your individuality, you might get lost? "I end my day Picture a house on fire on fire on fire on fire " Refers to living with this so called "mental instability", as just being yourself could be "mental instability" relative to the way of the day and the peoples of our society . And the debate goes on, as that is life, and jungs individuation or Nieztches eternal recurrance. |
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| Matthew Good – Fought To Fight It Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I think its about anxiety and the mindset of one living with panic disorder. | |
| Matthew Good – Set Me On Fire Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Tear you at the seams Set me on fire Can't afford to wake up Can't afford not to either I think this part describes the duality of man in terms of the concious and unconscious. 'Tear me at the seams'- open me up, see the full inside both abysmal and beatiful (Dionysian and Apollinian), 'set me on fire'- Let it out, bring it all that is unconscious to the surface. 'cant afford to wake up'- remain in the dream state where the unconscious life is uninhibited and archetypal expressions arise more easily. this is important in self actualization. 'Cant afford not to either'- you exist in reality and thus must remain capable of functioning through your concious mind, so you must suppress some unconcious impulses so as not to get overwhelmed while functioning in the real world. 'In this busted town, in this busted room, bled out clean'- broken down and able to see inside. As often in suffering can we best see whats within. 'Dance on the ropes, an elephant, hunt ivory'- reminds me of the tightrope walk in Nietche's Thus spoke Zarathustra. 'And the girls their eyes piano wire'- I think of Carl Jungs anima, the divine feminine. Often used as a guide in the process of self-actualization. 'Scream set me on fire '- Rebirth cannot occur without a death, so kill your current self and return as a higher self (will make more sense once you read whats below). Set me on fire 'While I rock the boat'- while you undergoe this transcendant function (integrate unconcious material into conciousness), that is attempt to harmonize your psyche 'Sing to me' 'We'll close our eyes a spell so dangerously'- its dangerous to look within the unconcious as within it, theres many things man would like to beleive do not lie within him. It can be overwhelming. 'Inside the hole inside your heart a diamond key'- The most important part, in this abysmal side, through realization of the darkness within ourselves and the other elements of our unconcious lives, we take this material and integrate it with our concious life. The product is a higher level of conciousness, discovery of our own true inner potential higher than ever imagined- or as Carl Jung would have it, Self-realization (the diamond key), or Nietzche's Superman. 'Unlock your door, climb your stairs, watch you sleep'- This pretty much describes the reflections once you have undergone self-realization (unlocking the door and climbing the stairs) . When you look back on yourself, the way you were beforehand, you will realize you were asleep inside, as half your life wasnt activated. 'While my criminal stood to retire'- Criminal= your smaller self, the man before, naive and unaware, doubtful of his potential, dependant on external means (posseesions, appraise, creeds, the state) of acquiring internal value. He the criminal, hes leaving now that you have found the diamond key. 'Screams set me on fire' - let this process take place! The the rebirth of a higher self take place! Set me on fire |
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