| The Alan Parsons Project – Don't Answer Me Lyrics | 2 years ago |
| This is my concept album interpretation and I think it fits in with what AP is trying to convey. There is a super deep message Eric is trying to present that is consistent with the picture of the Ammonia Avenue cover of a dizzying, array of pipes. You are having a conversation with technology (AI?). The lyrics suggest the steady encroachment of technology into our lives and our weakness to confront it. Who needs magic or God when we have all this wonderful technology? And if you have trouble accepting this encroachment of technology, just look at our history of progress so far. We lived peacefully with nature, but gave it up in the pursuit of progress for the sake of progress, clouding our judgement. We try to run away from it but it is a steady, relentless presence, like the wall of sound in the music. Technology becomes our God and it needs us to sustain it. It becomes something we struggle to master (a stranger to our norms and often our intuition). We look to it for all our answers, yet it can't provide them. We may try to run away from it, yet we are powerless to change the technological progress that has already been made and what we say (together with technology) we will do. | |
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