| Bill Callahan – Faith/Void Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| If in some parts of the song he is saying "peace in the light", to my mind I think he is referring to an ability of being at ease in the company of any people who exhibit pressure to believe Their Way. His self-affirmation allows him to avoid distraction by people who may be trying to shine a light into his way whilst they also attempt to show his way as being wrong. | |
| Bill Callahan – Faith/Void Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| The first couple of times I listened to this song, I wondered if it could have been written from the point of view of the actual world it's self which was seeing people become non-religious one by one until faith had subsided from the populace. This would allow the second set of lines to be interpreted as opposite of religion being damning and sickening. | |
| Bill Callahan – Faith/Void Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I tend to agree that it seems almost overly anti-religious. Almost like there's something we're not getting. Thinking about what he's trying to conjure up with the image of him having tear gas misters at his own grave leaves me a bit baffled but still curious.. |
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| Bill Callahan – Faith/Void Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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The word void might be used as a synonym for afterlife. Or it could mean just "being in the dark" here, while still living. Either way, a question would serve as an attempt to ratify ignorance on the subject. With the first interpretation, one would start by questioning what happens in such a "void" and then proceed by experiment to find out (perhaps philosophically?). With the other interpretation though, it would lead to a cessation of living by rules here and now which are based on non-provable absolutes. "A void without a question is just perverse" A remarkable line, I think. .. In one sweep there is his reason. When I hear it I think of stagnated places where no true realisation can penetrate, where a constant feeling of the unknown exists but the search for a truth is beset by an acceptance of an absolute which can't be questioned. In what way is the perversion of an accepted void similar to the imagery in the following line? One would first have to assume that people would come to one's own funeral. One would place the misters there to either increase the crying (albeit, tears of physical pain and therefore false) or to cause suffering (post-mortem) to people who had cared enough to be at the funeral. |
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| Bill Callahan – Faith/Void Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I am not so sure. The way he sings the lyric leaves it somewhat open, I think to let the listener here what they want. Listening critically it sounds like the first time he says the line that it is "in the light" and then when he repeats it with the musical build-up that he almost exclaims "in a lie" but with all the noise it can't be for certain. --- I think it's both | |
| Modest Mouse – Out of Gas Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This song can be interpreted as follows: There is a person who is in possession of a vehicle. That person happens to run out of gas. The person is still in the vehicle and it’s rolling. As, That person then runs out of road. That person is on one hell of a steep hill headed down, As That person is out of car. (A)The car commences to be torn to bits by sharp edges of giant rocks as it careens down some hopeless gorge. (B)The person is ejected out of the car and is flung on the rocks. That person is not sure how they are going to “go”. Go(a): To Depart Go(b): To Move Forward (or move down) Just listen to these lyrics and tell me it’s not about some car flying off some cliff and flipping and hitting all the rocks on the way down. Perhaps when the song says we’re going to come down too soon, what it’s trying to tell us is that we should enjoy that ride. As for my opinion about handing out kittens see this site here where I explain that shiz: knowledgeunderlyrics.wordpress.com |
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