| Joan Osborne – One Of Us Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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@[robinb13:14871] P.S. I believe, like a lot of people, that there should be some meaning behind life, the world, the universe and everything. But believing that there should be meaning isn't the same thing as there actually being meaning. Maybe there is. I hope there is. I'm agnostic. But alternatively, is it not also possible that there isn't a meaning of the universe? |
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| Joan Osborne – One Of Us Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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For a start, it baffles me how so few people who post on Songmeanings don't do a bit of research first, including on Wikipedia. Yeah, I know, Wikipedia is bad, yeah, yeah, yeah... well no, actually there's plenty of true stuff on there, it's consistently well backed-up with many refereneces at the bottom and has a big team of editors checking posts as fast as they can... So many of you have said that Joan thinks this and Joan thinks that but apparently she didn't write the lyrics, it was a guy from some band called the Hooters, whose surname is Brazilian. Joan Osborne just sang it, apparently. Next, to the guy saying it was your favourite song at age 6, you don't have to be that patronizing and dismissive, there are clearly many ways that this song can be interpreted. I'm agnostic with sympathy for atheism and for me the line 'just a slob like one of us' doesn't necessarily mean god being some kind of thinking, human-like being like us... maybe it can mean that slobs don't do much, don't get active in changing the directions of life/the world, and neither does 'god' because god isn't actually an all-powerful, all in control being, maybe 'god' is simply life, simply the random, out of control universe of which we are somehow a part. What if there wasn't a meaning of life? I like to think there is meaning in our world, but I think it's meaning created by us. How can anyone actually know if there is some meaning beyond the world, in the rest of the universe? Some religious people piss me off. The older I get, the more religion pisses me off, with its arrogance and patronising. The Jehovas Witnesses Watchtower leaflet distributors in the streets of London piss me off. Don't patronise us! I've also done a lot of thinking about existence in my life. Can you religious people please try to be a bit more philosophical and rational? |
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| Blur – Out of Time Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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Here are a few facts about the song, including what Damon himself has said about its meaning: The song was accompanied by an anti-war music video, directed by John Hardwick. It was the first of Blur's videos to not feature the band members themselves in any way, consisting entirely of footage from a 2002 BBC Correspondent documentary (Warship) depicting life aboard the United States aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Albarn described the video as "the antithesis of the 'Top Gun' image of the American military machine." The video is centred on Jill Ameperosa, a 24-year-old aircraft maintenance technician. After walking up to the deck, she looks out at sea whilst subtitles on the screen read, "Two days after I get home he leaves. It's just too hard. I used to love him. But you can't love someone you don't know anymore ...". Albarn explained: "It focuses on the loneliness of somebody working on an aircraft carrier and the fact that a six-month tour of duty means that relationships break down and children go without their parents. That's the reality of it." When I was thinking about the meaning yesterday I was thinking of "watch the world spinning gently out of time" as a reference to the world for humans and living beings in general being in danger of breaking down or even coming to an end, i.e. the human population continuing to increase rapidly, over-consumption, global warming and the continuing possibility of a nuclear war happening sooner or later, finally. However, in the video you see Jill Amerporosa standing on deck looking at the sun coming up on the horizon so that has made me wonder if it´s a reference to the world changing slowly from night to day (out of one part of time, night, to the other part of time, day). |
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