| Swans – The Most Unfortunate Lie Lyrics | 8 years ago |
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I think this song is about human free will and how it is the most unfortunate lie we tell ourselves. The lie is that we make our own decisions, have our own agency, and have control of our fate. It is lethal because we believe we are invincible, our lives matter; our minds trick us into thinking we are even alive at all. "And so my mind is slowly devoured by the ideas to which it subscribes And in the end I'm left with nothing except the memory of believing my own lies." When he sees himself in the mirror, he realizes his existence came from a primordial ooze where the fate of mankind was first foretold. We began from nothing and will end as nothing. Black water and gold could be metaphors for this primordial ooze. Now he is face to face with the lie of his existence, realizing his "existence" has and always will be, in his own mind. |
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