| Less Than Jake – The Rest Of My Life Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| And it TWISTS like a blade. | |
| Bright Eyes – Lua Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| In the most general way, this is speaking about doing things one day that you will regret the following morning, to the extent that it complicates your life far too much for you to handle. | |
| Bright Eyes – Train Under Water Lyrics | 13 years ago |
| I also realize I skipped a lot, and there may be a much less abstract way of describing the song as a whole, as well as an ENTIRELY different meaning, but this is what I got out of it. | |
| Bright Eyes – Train Under Water Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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This is how I interpret the song, as well as certain other symbols in Conor's music. You were born inside of a raindrop I watched you falling To your death Generally, as humans we are Raindrops. Our ego is a raindrop, and we are all falling to our death. Body of water, toxic and timeless When conor talks about bodies of water or oceans, to me it feels like he is speaking of the afterlife, "Nothingness" "Everything", and/or being at one with the universe. While the world waits for an explosion That instant of light that wipes the slate clean So don't be fooled So don't be lied to Love was always cruel The world, our world, is simply waiting to die. We fool ourselves into believing in some crazy ideology that will give us eternal happiness, but in the end we are nothing, everything, and / or at one with the universe. The universe, being love, but love is cruel in that it always ends, but there is potential for it to start up again. Don't act strange Don't be a stranger It happened to me now it's happening to you But if you take that train under water then we could talk it through "Strange" maybe referring to organized religion, filling your head with fanciful thoughts. Conor has already had death happen to him, possibly through Ego Death. Taking the train under water is possibly referencing how when we get high and start talking philosophy, we will often be able to intuitively feel and understand how these abstract mechanisms work. It's as if we are experiencing the afterlife (being within the ocean) while still in our vessel / body (the train) but losing our ego, at least for the time that we are thinking about it, or as long as we are in that altered high state of mind. Well if I could tame all of my desires Wait out the weather That howls in my brain Because it seems That it's always changing The wind's indecision, a sorrowful breeze This is fairly obvious, all of the weather being his emotions jumping all over the place. I was a postcard I was a record I was a camera Until I went blind Now I'm riding all over this island Looking for something to open my eyes Now this part... this is where I go a little insane... I have two explanations for this. Conor was a postcard, a record, a camera, as we all are. We have a sense of self, an ego. What this means, to me, is that Conor lost all of that. He went blind, thereby losing his ego and sense of self by becoming enlightened, thereby either making him a philosophical zombie, or more of just simply enlightened. He is traveling the earth in order to feel at home here again, in order to find one thing to lock him down into reality rather than just travelling the cosmos in his head. In general, the song is about how our ego is just an illusion, it's fleeting, and it actually hinders us in many ways. There is the possibility that in the future, none of us will even exist on a conscious level, and therefore life has no meaning, except the meaning that we create right now, every day. There is no point in fighting it, so it just makes sense to make the best of it. |
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| Bright Eyes – At the Bottom of Everything Lyrics | 13 years ago |
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I also think that the line "I found out I'm really no one" means that at the end of life, we die, and who we were becomes a thing of the past. We become no one, and just because we are someone right now, the time will come when we have to face our death. I also think this entire song, in general, is showing how people cope with death, and how many people don't live life to the fullest. Being at the bottom of everything, meaning being dead, or knocking on deaths door. "Oh my mornings coming back The whole world's waking up This city bus is swimming past I'm happy just because I found out that I am really no one" This whole line being him having just awoken from Ego Death, finding out that he is really just a vessel, and the true him is no one. The true him doesn't exist, or just exists in an entire different way that none of us can understand. The only thing that is certain is that our Ego isn't real, or at least it won't be once everything is said in done. All that will linger on is our actions, so we have to make the best of every day, and try strive to be greater every day. I was really analyzing this song yesterday, I know this may not be the actual interpretation, but it is how I interpret it. |
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