| Linkin Park – Castle Of Glass Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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I admire the ability for LP to write sorrowful songs with such power. It talks about the spiritual desperation and determination to seek inner peace in the modern society where evilness permeates into every aspect of our lives. By the time we realise it, it will be too late because evilness has already gained a strong footing. (Take me down to the river bend Take me down to the fighting end Wash the poison from off my skin Show me how to be whole again) This verse simply talks about how the individual wanted to wash away the ideas or materials that have poisoned his life by the use of imagery lyrics of going down to the river bend to wash away the poison (aka sins) that he has committed, almost as if he were to become baptised. Note how he says that he washes the poison off his skin…he knows that he is good natured within but the dirt has covered it. (Fly me up on a silver wing Past the black, where the sirens sing Warm me up in the nova’s glow and drop me down to the dream below) This verse is actually tragic in the sense that the individual hopes to seek a better life by flying on a silver wing above all the black sirens but only to find out that it is nothing but a nova’s glow*. After all this hope and seeing a nova’s glow that gave him false hope, he ends up having to return to his dreams which he desperately wants but is probably not possible. * A nova (and its glow) is a astronomical phenomenon associated with a white dwarf star. A white dwarf star is a star that is approaching its death and with one last time it glows strongly only to gradually faint into destined darkness in an irreversible manner. The sun in our solar system when exhausted all its nuclear fuel will also become a dwarf star. ('Cause I'm only a crack in this castle of glass Hardly anything left for you to see For you to see) He pointed out the reality that we live in is nothing but a castle of glass — it looks grand and strong but the glass exposes its fragility and brittleness. This individual is insignificant (one of the many cracks in this castle of glass), almost to the point of being forgotten. Becoming a shell of himself with hardly anything interesting left for you to see. (Bring me home in a blinding dream, through the secrets that I have seen Wash the sorrow from off my skin and show me how to be whole again) After seeing the secrets (more likely to be the truth) and blindly chasing a dream that has hindered him from seeking true happiness, he now begs to be brought back to home where life maybe simple but at least not traumatic. He wants to wash away these sorrows that has fragmented him and live and feel like a human again. 'Cause I'm only a crack in this castle of glass Hardly anything else I need to be This has a sarcastic tone saying that he is probably better off just being an crack in the castle of glass which is insignificant and unimportant because he can now at least be himself and seek the simple pleasures in life. 'Cause I'm only a crack in this castle of glass Hardly anything left for you to see For you to see same as above It also talks about the determination to break free from these illusions and live a life that is true to himself and not chase after the worldly materials that we have been taught to through media influence etc. The moral of this song to us is reminding us not to be sucked up by seeking materialistic achievement too much or you might just as well realise in end that you lose yourself, which is worse than losing your material possessions. I guess this song tells us how we can be ungrateful with the simple pleasures in life until we have lost it. |
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| Linkin Park – Castle Of Glass Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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He did not ask to be dropped into the dream below - he was just saying that upon finding out the truth that nova's glow is nothing but a false hope, he went back to square 1 which was when he started to pursue this false dream |
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