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Dream Theater – Beneath The Surface Lyrics

7 months ago

What a brilliant song, lyrics and music! It must have been very personal for Petrucci, because it struck me, and so many others deeply in their own personal experience. I am not surprised to read in so many comments that it brings you to tears. As it did with me. Tears of regret, recognition of purity. I've had a mystical experience listening to this song. Just a few weeks before I heard it, I had a clear and realistic dream. Just after having fallen back in my smoking habit after a year of non smoking. Addiction is the monster in my life, mainly alcohol which brought havoc to my aspirations in life. Having overcome that habit, the dream reminded me of it. I was standing with a group of clients in front of a rehab clinic. There I met Rose, someone I didn't know, but there was instant recognition of each others spiritual bond. She embraced me, and it was as if we melted together. The love was that of a lost part of my soul that emerged, forgotten and pushed away due to my addiction. When I heard this song the dream was instantly present, and I cried. I realised the loss I had created through 20 years of alcohol addiction. I took years for me to bring Rose back to the surface, she is there now, I have given her part of my life and even presence to complete my soul. I play and sing the song regularly, always there are tears. Partly of regret, but also of wonder and a deep sense of completeness.

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Dream Theater – Beneath The Surface Lyrics

2 years ago

Well, I have to admit this song touches deep sadness in me. To me this song is related to a past of alcoholism. All my expectations of life were drowned, literally. One night I had a crystal clear dream in which I met my own soul in the shape of a woman in rags and looking very old. In our embrace she transformed, her face lost it's deep lines and the color returned. About a week later I heard this song. It became the musical prelude to finding myself in a state where I had left myself. The dream gave me a message of warning and of hope, and there I heard the soundtrack. I took a first Step, and eleven Steps followed. I still cry when I hear this song, it reminds me of desperate times that I have left behind me.

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Brian Eno – By This River Lyrics

10 years ago

I was quite entangled in hermetic and gnostic texts when I heard this song. The impact the lyrics in combination with the meditative sound had on me where (and are) largely colored by my search for the essence of these teachings: We are thrown into this world without a clue of our source or destination. Yet it is all right there, but we fail to see it.To me the river is a powerful symbol of life; flowing and changing, but also dangerous. Sitting by this river means that you are stuck, not able to overcome the angst of living, not able to fully embrace and be embraced by life. In stead you long for something in the past, or the future, as long as it is not in the present. It fits quite well in a movie like La stanza del figlio, I guess (haven't seen the movie). Loss of a dearly beloved one shook my world at least, and confronted me with my own inertia: fear of death and loss is fear of living. This fear clouded my view of what is. It also made me realize that the moments I have been really open to life, prepared to jump into the stream, are rare.

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Leonard Cohen – If It Be Your Will Lyrics

13 years ago

A lot of the interpretations are about submission to something Bigger. I am not religious, but this is a prayer to me that I enclose in my heart. As Cohen said in an interview: it's a way to capture the effect sublime and pure beauty can have on one's consciousness. You can only be open to receive that beauty, you can't evoke that. Maybe you'll start realizing that this beauty is always around. That's the moment you stop putting words to it, stop "realizing" and just Be in it. But it's a long way home. The song rings a resemblance with "Halleluja" and "Anthem". These songs are more narrative/descriptive, the latter more like a pamphlet (Ring the Bells that Still can Ring!). But they convey the same message (at least, to me). And, true, Hegarty sings this song straight into the heart!

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Foo Fighters – These Days Lyrics	13 years ago
I read the comments, most of them are very personal. They are all true, because they come from the heart. That's what true art does, from heart to heart. Namaste.

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Foo Fighters – These Days Lyrics

13 years ago

This song was also played by the band as a memorial to the victims of a deadly disaster. So it is about death and loss allright. But it can be interpreted very personally.To me it heals all the cynicism that you can build up during a life time of isolating, enclosing pain over loss. I sang it, and when I came round to "Easy for you to say, your heart has never been broken" I cried tears of deep felt anger and pain, most of it not tagged to anything specific. Some wounds can't be healed, it seems. The end is inspiring: DON'T SAY IT'S ALLRIGHT. Everything matters, everything. In the end that brings relief: being able to notice it all, realizing that you are part of all that. I am not a cynic, to me this song is not cynical, it is tapping in to life force, how strange that may sound. I could give room to the pain and sadness by singing it out. With that it became part of a larger existence, and it stopped eating me away. I have noticed that a lot of the lyrics of the Foo Fighters are like that: they liberate from boundaries and bonds that are not yours but just imaginary layers over reality. By crying out your pain you can feel the love, brak through those layers. Which is quite special I think. You can't put that into a logical paradigm, or in a belief system. It's personal, based on experience, and it's bigger than our carefully constructed theories about life.

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Foo Fighters – The Pretender Lyrics

13 years ago

I found that this song has been interpreted many times in a political way. To me it connects closely to the work of Jung, and his theory about the shadow. Everybody has a face to the world. It's called ego, which is a form of personality that is shaped by society, upbringing and personal beliefs. The need to comply to the demands of the external world causes that a lot of unique personal characteristics are tagged as "wrong" and they end up in your shadow. Your ego takes up the task to hide them, because you think they are not compliant. In reality you can't have "wrong" characteristics, but when you start hiding them they will come out eventuallly, most likely in a very nasty way. Like skeletons they will haunt you, they will be mirrored in your stare. Part of becoming a real person, where ego is submitted to the real self and not to silly prejudices and illusions, is becoming conscious of that suppression. A struggle commences between Ego and Self. Only the loving acceptance of "All of You" can produce a satisfactory answer to the "Who are You" in this song.

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Foo Fighters – The Pretender Lyrics

14 years ago

Like most lyrics, any interpretation is the right one, a bit like the bible. If a lyric corresponds to your feelings the artist did his job: he made a creation that is beyond him. To me this lyric corresponds to inner struggle: the struggle between all the personalities you carry within you and that emerge at different occasions. When I am at work I am a different personality from the guy playing guitar in his spare time or the lover. They even carry their own (contradictory) opinions and responses. When you start taking control of your life, you become aware of these personalities and the inner contradiction that this brings, hence the emerging struggle. The personalities develop during your life, and are related to learning moments, and sometimes traumas (the skeletons in the song). Only by confronting your Self with these skeletons you can face all the different aspects of You and you can create a full and authentic Individual. So all these warriors are personalities, attacking your awareness, because this is a threat to their isolatory existence. This interpretation is closely related to the works of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky(or should I say The Work). They described the existence of different personalities within an individual, all formed by automatic responses to external stimuli. The authentic Self comes from within. Once it is revealed it is able to DO, to create and not merely react.

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