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| Why? – Gnashville Lyrics
| 9 years ago
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pretty sure that the hand line references something way bigger than 'god,' it's just a general abstract statement - you think you know somebody, but you don't know their intricacies. the entire song acts as this different, impersonal glances of different people's worlds as told by what their parents 'might' say |
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| Bright Eyes – I Believe in Symmetry Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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@[nietzschewept:5735] This seems like a really unfounded interpretation. There's no sign of Bright Eyes as a band having ever felt the influence of Epicurus, beside their use of the word 'symmetry.' A word that in this case seems to suggest actual order. Your description seems to suggest a sense of condescending towards the mentioned insect; the narrator does not imply that animals are ignorant and unaware, but that they accept their life and death through knowledge that everything is as it should be.
The last section you quoted seems to suggest a spirit of reincarnation above all else; the song even ends with 'you get to the next one down the line,' which is an obvious reference. This work, as do many of Bright Eyes' work, seems to be most influenced through philosophies akin to Taoism more than anything else, as others have already pointed out.
Of course, music being an art form leaves itself open to interpretation, but I feel that this explanation specifically shoehorns a philosophy entirely at odds with the song's lyrics into itself. |
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| Bright Eyes – I Believe in Symmetry Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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@[el_sam:5733] He was obviously alluding to his belief in symmetry, order. Nothing about this song is scientifiic, and I'm unsure as to why so many early commentors claimed as much. |
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| KoЯn – Evolution Lyrics
| 11 years ago
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@[DementedPuppy:1128] What should we deduce of you then, from your terrible cognitive abilities and irrelevant comments? |
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