| Andrew Bird – Case in Point Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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Interesting comments here. I didn't really get religious references from the song at first. My first impression was that the song was about the impracticality (perhaps even futility) of excessive philosophical or theoretical thought. The song's narrator or protagonist is caught in a "conceptual hell," which I read as a world that is overwrought with thinking. He realizes that this thinking is "Not even good for kindling / When the buildings they all fell." In other words, philosophical rumination is not useful when real life tragedy or disaster (i.e. the falling of the buildings) strikes. Furthermore, unrestrained theoretical thought can prevent action. If one is removed from reality in a "conceptual hell," one becomes stagnant or stops moving forward. Hence the line "You can't ride the concept of the horse." The horse is practical, the concept is not. If you try to move forward using the concept, you will ultimately get nowhere. |
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