| Real Estate – It's Real Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I agree with flan3ur. It's existentialist, hence "it's real"! "I don't know who's behind The wheel Sometimes I feel like that I don't know The deal" Life is confusing, absurd and illogical. Things happen that don't make sense. Maybe there's someone behind the wheel (possible a God?) but they certainly don't make themselves obvious. What matters is what we do right here, right now. However absurd some things seem ("I skated on the frozen / Sea"), "it's real as far as I can see", so let's just get on with our lives and enjoy them for how they appear to us. Although love may seem strange and obscure, it's real, embrace it for what it is ("When I tell you how / I feel / Believe me when I say / It's real"). It's very i easy to idealise and abstract love from what it is, leading one to question whether it's really there. But, look, "I carved our names into / A tree", it's simple: it's love, it's real, it's tangible, it's there, right in front of you; what more evidence do we need? And, finally, because I've mentioned every line except this one, I thought I need to cover "I walked on decomposing / Leaves". Again, this is just an explanation of how everything we do is "real". He's walking on the decomposing, imperfect leaves of the real world, not some strange transcendental reality. In Summary: Questioning why things are the way they are (Is there a god? What is love? etc.) doesn't get us anywhere. We just need to live in the real world and enjoy it for what it is. |
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| Built to Spill – Liar Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I think it has an absurdist (and arguably existentialist) outlook. Read Albert Camus and you'll see the sort of ideas this song is trying to get across. "Look out, the world's destroying you Relax, it isn't fair Mother nature's disposition She don't mind, she don't care" Here, the "she" doesn't refer to a lover or girl, but "mother nature" and "the world". The universe is cold and indifferent, it doesn't care about you at all. These kinds of ideas are key to the absurdism in Albert Camus' 'The Stranger' and "The Myth of Sisyphus'. "When things are all you think of And plans are all you make And thoughts are all you dream of Your falls are all you take" This emphasises the existentialist/absurdist approach, whereby you are nothing more than what you do. Despite the injustice of the world, you are accountable for what you do. We try so hard to find meaning in a meaningless universe. Our efforts are in vain but we must carry on trying nonetheless. |
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