| Them Crooked Vultures – Spinning in Daffodils Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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This music criticizes the transformation of Narcissus of each person, from a solid world in to a liquid world. Solid world, slow, where there are limits, borders, time to absorb things, remember when we correspond from letters ?. Liquid world, everything is fast, without limits, without barriers, everything is mixed with time, There is no time to absorb everything, instant messages and in our mobile phone we are in contact with our boss at any time of the day. It is sung by one's own conscience, already know it can not do anything, you lose control. The Self comes into the corner right after the second chorus, asking where your conscience goes and what it did? At the beginning of the verse the conscience remembers that it could have alerted the person and to prevent what was to come. I think it is important to demystify the metaphor of the beginning of the verse: "Is it safe to play God in the garden and king of the zoo?" Imagine you at your computer or cellphone and write whatever your opinion is (garden) Imagine you saying and debating your thoughts out side. (zoo) In both cases no one will hear you. Everyone has their opinion, no one hears anyone's, Everyone say the own opinion instead of listening others. In this liquid world, we all have an opinion. "Holes, Well they need to be filled. Positions available, Yet some are quite hard to get out of or in. " Holes metaphor for the void that feels or has opened, has opened vacancies to be filled, but some vacancies will be difficult to replace. This means that something happens but the conscience does not understand, it misses but does not know what it is. The rest of the verses follow the path of a process of depression and there the conscience is the only one that suffers. Who prefers to move upward by freeing himself from the pain. (balloon, losing the pressure) In the end it is already in the process of suicide that the conscience abandoned him and accepted his own condition. The context of all this is related to today's digital Narcissism. Today we post our photos, without conscience, we post to ourselves, waiting for approval from others, with likes, shares and comments. Our conscience does not have the perception to warn us that we are getting more and more solitary and abandoned, we are increasingly accompanied by digital friends not present ones. Consciousness has no sensors capable of detecting the way we are going. Apparently, we are not alone but we are factually. This music as in many many other QOTSA flowers with context on metaphors. Today we all want detailed and fast information, and we miss the love of success or achievement. This music conquers when we perceive it and why we love it. This song has 3 living legends that have created something extraordinary for life. |
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