| Karnivool – Sky Machine Lyrics | 12 years ago |
| What you say makes sense. But guess what I said is my interpretation. :) | |
| Karnivool – Sky Machine Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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This song is one of the best from the album, I feel, by a band which has given me hope regarding the current music scene. It's so good to see progressive bands like Karnivool, Tesseract, Periphery coming out with good music. First of all, I think this song is a call for help to the power above, in the first part: "I keep staring at the sky I've been waiting for some time So out of touch So out of mind I can feel you there, I won't lie We're all just kids We're all good liars Good liars..." Ian is referring to humankind as ignorant lying kids, and he acknowledges and pleads for the power above to guide them which resonates in the lines to follow: "Please try to understand There is no great plan We have no idea What lies beyond our reach Try to understand There is no great plan We will cross the line With an open mind" There is no great plan that we have for us, but we will cross the line and accept the truth when you tell us, with an open mind. It's pretty literal. "Show me what it is Hush my desires Set me on fire" Tell me what the truth is, silent my desires and let me know what is real. The purpose. 'Set me on fire' basically refers to testing him. There is a very beautiful epiphany from this point onwards I believe, as he realises that the almighty is one of us, we are his incarnations here on this earth..he has finally crossed that line by knowing this truth.. "Please try to understand There is no great plan We have cast our lies To the open skies Try to understand We've another plan We have crossed the line With an open mind We have crossed that line (x2)" "You're new to me And I believe You have to be The one we need" This is all still new to him. But he is fairly certain that it is what we need. "Soon you will see it with all Our reasons for trying to justify We hold the fate of the world The dearly departed They won't make a sound They won't make a sound" "You are the same as us all Blood running in our veins Few have the heart of a brave, Now will you run or stay? We hide away our vicious things Don't let them out Even the ones that we don't see Who are always there" Soon we will all realise, with our power of reason, that we are the ones who will decide the fate for the generations to come. Now after knowing this, do you have the courage to stay and accept your truth, or will you be one of the many who would thrive at the brink of ignorance? "You are the salt of all" You are the purest of all. In the end, he begs to be taken away from everything, to know the real truth of existence of us. "Take me with you on your sky machine (Please try to understand, there is no great plan) I'm dying to know (We have cast our lies to the open skies) Way out far from what it is we see (Try to understand, we've another plan We have crossed the line with an open mind)" This is my first interpretation. Comments are welcome. :) |
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