| A Perfect Circle – Weak and Powerless [Unedited Video] Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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"Weak and Powerless" Tilling my own grave to keep me level Jam another dragon down the hole Digging to the rhythm and the echo of a solitary siren One that pushes me along and leaves me so Desperate and ravenous So weak and powerless over you Someone feed the monkey while I dig in search of China White as Dracula as I approach the bottom Desperate and ravenous So weak and powerless over you Little angel go away Come again some other day The devil has my ear today I'll never hear a word you say He promised I would find a little solace And some peace of mind Whatever just as long as I don't feel so Desperate and ravenous So weak and powerless Desperate and ravenous So weak and powerless Over you Over you Album: Thirteenth Step, 12 tracks, this is track 2. The album is about 12 step programs and the 1st track, The Package, is definitely about going to a 12 step program. Addmitting you're an addict and that you are powerless over your addiction. Well, you aren't powerless. Yes, you need help and support, but the desire and all the leg work will have to come from the addict. 12 step itself is really bullshit, for the most part. I mean, addiction is terrible and drug addiction specifically is bad and should be avoided, but 12 step is fake and it's just another addiction. Step 2 (specifically): ACCEPTING, not choosing, accepting that there is a God or higher power (more inclusive) and calls for "giving it all to god", that this faith is the ONLY WAY TO SANITY. You're not an addict in the literal and medical sense, the factual and widely researched, well understood reality these narcotics arephysically and psychologically addictive is never discussed during the actual meeting, you are insane. They have all the sanity and it's not only accepting the irrefusabel command to have faith in a silent and invisible being but that this being, of your choosing, whoever, whatever, its arbitrary, is the only, ONLY way you can cure that sanity and live clean and sober. Statistical research regularly and clearly indicates that 12 step or cold turkey, about 15% of addicts quit (or exchange addictions) via 12 step and about 15% quit via cold turkey. Less addicts go through non-religious non-step groups but their success percentage size is much higher and they actually treat your underlying addictions via therapy or non-narcotic medications as well as a stress free, work at your own pace environment. To me, this one is about realizing the program is bull shit. It is week and powerless. He has no faith in it. It is the imaginary higher power. |
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| A Perfect Circle – The Package Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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The first track on Thirteenth Step, with 12 tracks total, its about 12 step programs. Step one: Addmitting you're an addict. The package is the 12 step program itself. The first step: Admitting Powerlessness over your addiction. Having been through this, 12 step is a group of people who pretend to care, pretend to listen. They all give you contacts got everyone when you take your first step. The program wants all of your personal will and power, just like a drug The people who have been going for years, they are massively addicted to it. You'll see them get high as fuck at the meetings. Everyone gets an opportunity to share. This means you can let some things out. For an addict lying, cheating, bumbing and stealing are simply how you aquire most any resource. Most hard drugs will not only take the focus as the regular primary goal, but your motivation to take care of almost anything else in life evaporates. You'll still care and as you lose everything and everyone's faith and trust in you disappears as they suffer over your slef destruction and finally lose the last of those holding on to you over your negative affect in their lives and your left with nothing but other addicts who want only to use you, you're not only left alone with nothing, you're reputation is accurate and well known. It is a shame and guilt. It's something you hide. You look like an addict, like someone to stay away from. Regular people, you'll not like being around at all anymore. Well, here comes 12 step and everyone's disinngenuine sympathy, which you've not had in a long time, quite the opposite. Other addicts tell all like there is no shame. They can finally express their guilt and regret. It's your turn to share. You want that badly missed attention intensely, your floodgates open and the sensation of letting out so many pent up thoughts and feelings and experiences is euphoric, a euphoria without a crash or comedown. They go every night, some go to as many a day as possible, one girl said 7 was her record, with guidiness. So, the same cycle of dopamine addiction is continued. Your withdrawal symptoms ease. Coffee is served freely for the stimulant and tobacco culture is accepted and prevalent just for that hook. Everyone hangs out in the parlking lot afterwords smoke and chatting, like after a night of drinking. Its a new social group of addicts who just want to use you...and Im sure almost all of them cheat the program and still use in whatever way. So, its really just them getting you rehooked on their shit. 12 steps...all set out. All concisely stated. Each with a specific purpose to either hook you or sale the program, so everything looks ok on the outside. So, it is not only wrapped up in a nice like package in the, its all inside and purposeful and it's wrapped up. It's covered. The package, equating to a score of drugs being a package. Even the phalis aspect of the word. Being dominated or controlled, raped, even seduced or overwhelmed by our desire. So, this song very specifically explains what being in 12 step is like. I would do line by line, but I hope this sold my case :-) |
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| A Perfect Circle – The Package Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[BananaPieLord:26710] The package is the 12 step program itself. The first step: Admitting Powerlessness over your addiction. Having been through this, 12 step is a group of people who pretend to care, pretend to listen. They all give you contacts got everyone when you take your first step. The program wants all of your personal will and power, just like a drug The people who have been going for years, they are massively addicted to it. You'll see them get high as fuck at the meetings. Everyone gets an opportunity to share. This means you can let some things out. For an addict lying, cheating, bumbing and stealing are simply how you aquire most any resource. Most hard drugs will not only take the focus as the regular primary goal, but your motivation to take care of almost anything else in life evaporates. You'll still care and as you lose everything and everyone's faith and trust in you disappears as they suffer over your slef destruction and finally lose the last of those holding on to you over your negative affect in their lives and your left with nothing but other addicts who want only to use you, you're not only left alone with nothing, you're reputation is accurate and well known. It is a shame and guilt. It's something you hide. You look like an addict, like someone to stay away from. Regular people, you'll not like being around at all anymore. Well, here comes 12 step and everyone's disinngenuine sympathy, which you've not had in a long time, quite the opposite. Other addicts tell all like there is no shame. They can finally express their guilt and regret. It's your turn to share. You want that badly missed attention intensely, your floodgates open and the sensation of letting out so many pent up thoughts and feelings and experiences is euphoric, a euphoria without a crash or comedown. They go every night, some go to as many a day as possible, one girl said 7 was her record, with guidiness. So, the same cycle of dopamine addiction is continued. Your withdrawal symptoms ease. Coffee is served freely for the stimulant and tobacco culture is accepted and prevalent just for that hook. Everyone hangs out in the parlking lot afterwords smoke and chatting, like after a night of drinking. Its a new social group of addicts who just want to use you...and Im sure almost all of them cheat the program and still use in whatever way. So, its really just them getting you rehooked on their shit. 12 steps...all set out. All concisely stated. Each with a specific purpose to either hook you or sale the program, so everything looks ok on the outside. So, it is not only wrapped up in a nice like package in the, its all inside and purposeful and it's wrapped up. It's covered. The package, equating to a score of drugs being a package. Even the phalis aspect of the word. Being dominated or controlled, raped, even seduced or overwhelmed by our desire. So, this song very specifically explains what being in 12 step is like. I would do line by line, but I hope this sold my case :-) |
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| A Perfect Circle – A Stranger Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[anewkindof_me:26709] Great post, I agree, his experience is irrelevant. It's about shedding denials and shedding illusions. Fuck your 12 step programs and the fake strangers you meet there. Her is all you need, 13 step, shed your illusions. Sex, the root of all evil...hmmmm, evil is a relative term that seems to lack any universal definition at all. Sex is the root of all evolution and the only reason we exist. Ever have with someone you truly love?? Is that evil?? Chimpanzees are patriarchal, lead by an alpha male. They solve their problems with intimidation, stealing, violence and even warfare. They eat only vegetation, yet the males who have run off a rival troop will eat, genitals first, any babies left behind. (So far, what does that say of sex, war and where evil stands.) Juxtaposed, Benobos, or a smaller species of ape virtually identical to chimps, they are matriarchal, lead by an alpha female. They have no system of ownership, they are totally non violent, their is no dogma to their mating. No dominant male getting every female and no life time mating (best for genetic divercity!!) They make no war, the hold no territory and don't compete with other troops. They solve any problem or issue that arises with sexual favor. Guy on girl, girl on girl, guy on guy....oral, hands....its all on the table. If you look back into primitive human cultures, we weren't always a patriarchal species. We also had matriarchal tribes. The differences between humans and apes here are exactly the same. I for one wish we ended up being matriarchal....but all those primitive violent alpha males must have put an end to that notion. Evil.....i think we really mean violence. Well, everything in all levels and layers of all existence we can measure is inherently violent. So, the root of all "evil" the root of all violence??? Existence itself. Competition Or in other words, the desire for power, in one term or another. CHEERS!!! |
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| A Perfect Circle – A Stranger Lyrics | 7 years ago |
| @[psycho_sloth:26708] Im guessing that's basically something you experience. This stranger is not appealing to him at all. | |
| A Perfect Circle – A Stranger Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[halfbakedlamma:26707] I think this can be interpreted biblically although there are some words or lines missing here that tell it a bit different.... I see this, if I chose to go biblical with it, as MJK is speaking. He has a fruit from the tree, the true knowledge had been hurried into eart by this version told of god and trapped inside of a tree in a secret garden. Instead of keeping this fruit for himself, he has cast it above all mankind. The bible spins it as if the Apple is to be feared and once consumed, regretted. MJK assures, this is not the case, the Apple is calming. The Apple was cast over satellites, as radio music and television signals are so powerful, they continue on into interstellar space. So this message is out there for all. The timid wild one - timid and wild are a contradiction, in terms. But Adam, naked and naive, is timid and wild, also Adam means "first man" and would represent humanity. He draws us out to his shows, to his albums, to this song, in effort to convince us, "it's not wrong or evil to eat this fruit". "And" irrelevant if MJK is still talking, in this case, is still speaking to us. Or still speaking. He has either changed who he is talking to or he isn't talking at this point. If he is now talking to this god, he is listening so hard. For even just a whisper from this god, tempting and sweet, yet this idea of god is insane. He formulates or writes songs which deny such obvious b.s. People also pray. They shut their eyes...they actively listen for god, all the while, they must create these denials of the affects of any true divinity. This false idea of god is a stranger, so why care. You vanish today. That's a command and it's also ironic, because he doesn't believe in this false idea of what people call god. Or.....if it's us speaking on that word "And" you could take it as, we listen for Maynards whispers, as he whispers lines in many of his songs, of your sweet (apple) seeming insanity, while we deny the truth he has shown, perhaps reverting back to these false beliefs. And either way you take it.....its not the first time I hear all the lies. What am I to so with all this silence? - listen for those whispers from god, nothing is heard, where does that leave us...thats a way to take it, but more fitting, all that noise that drown Maynards amplified voice to a mere whisper...having heard this dogma then shown false by MJK, it has left nothing but silence. Nah, what fits best is, MJK talks about how important silence is and how important it is in finding truth and hearing the self...what am I to do with ALL of this (glorious) silence. It is an overwhelming gift. Shy away this false imagine phantom. Tell that terrified god, run away you child! The noise of the bible and every religion is chaos, a tornado. Better off without these religions raring our will down. Peace!!! |
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| A Perfect Circle – A Stranger Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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| A Perfect Circle – A Stranger Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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@[rajhi29114:26705] The first time I read this, this is also what I interpreted as. I went further with it in my thoughts. Layers of of interps. In now reading others. Yours way the first and I think you stated everything perfectly and far more coherently and concisely then I did. Cheers |
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| A Perfect Circle – A Stranger Lyrics | 7 years ago |
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Here is my first interp!! In going to do mine first, then I'll read others. As always, the best genius here is how many ways one can interpret his lyrics, so I'll share what it is I see here....and I'll try to make it as clear as I can. The Stranger is his true self, as most people identify souly with their ego, the animal or false self. "Cast the calming apple Up and over satellites" So, I take this two ways.... In popular literature, Apples are a tempting fruit laced with poison. They are displayed as unnecessary temptations of something sweet offered to a pure, naive ignorant yet well meaning central character, by a dark self absorbed character with an agenda to either poison or entrance, to cast out of or hypnotize with illusions. This makes the Apple an illusion which only poisons the true and pure self, so that which is dark and self absorbed can take control or it could be...or it could be that the Apple is the temptation of the illusions themself and that our desire for them hypmotizes us, putting any true awareness asleep in order for the dark forces, far weaker then our collective, can grab power without any interference. The Apple has been cast over satellites. He is either casting this illusions far enough away to not be seen, or it could be that satellites are all those around and the dark force cast the Apple like casting a net and up over everyone so that they are unaware of this lure. OR The Apple could be interpreted biblically as knowledge, which was double speaked to male knowledge appear evil and unholy, reserved only for the top of social hierarchy. The calming could result from the soothing idea of heaven and being under the loving care of god. It's either been cast as an illusion or perhaps it's been cast into heaven, knowledge being thrown over our heads, reserved only for god. I prefer with my first stated interp...the Apple in terms of literary symbolism. "To draw out the timid wild one To convince you it's alright" The wild one is the ego, the wild animal of/out us, described as timid aka fearful, like an animal. The Apple, illusion or lure has been cast to tempt the ego into digesting these illusion, to convince the true that everything is ok. Or perhaps the wild one is the true Self, the one not bound by animalistic instinct or structure, timid because people hide from themselves and allow the vicious selfish ego to operate. The calming illusions have been cast away so the real self can come out, cast away so we can know it's alright to cast the ego out of the driver's seat. "And I listen for the whisper Of your sweet insanity while I formulate Denials of your effect on me" This brings it to a point, the whisper of sweet insanity makes me think the stranger is ABSOLUTELY the ego. The true self is speaking. The Apple is symbolic of illusions, insanity. It's sweet and tempting like an apple. A lure. It's been cast to draw out the wild ego. The ego listens for the whisper of that sweet illusion and In order to swallow these lies or poisons, denials must be formulated. "What am I to do with all this silence Shy away, shy away phantom Run away terrified child Won't you move away you you fuckin tornado I'm better off without you Tearing my will down" Silence could be loneliness or not having any way of knowing what is beyond us. Perhaps the silence is derived from the true Self being cursed to sleep, left only with its own silence. Maybe it means, what am I to do with this valueless illusions? Maybe In wrong and it's the ego speaking, the real and timid self was drawn out so the illusions could comfort. The ego listens for any whispers of truth, denied as a mere sweet insanity, and further formulated denials of any affect the truth could have. If so, then the Apple is truth. Knowledge, thrown away to erase the true Self, convinced that this is the proper way of things. Maybe the truth has been cast away from earth. The sky and drawing out the timid wild one, could be creating a false god, wild and vengeful like an animal, too timid to just make his "existence" openly known, drawn out in the sky like constellations. All this has been disguised as being righteous. The phantom could be who cast the apple....it could be the real self or just truth, diminished to a mere phantom, to be shewd away. But in starting to think, the phantom is the false god. The terrified child is the ego, fear itself The tornado, chaos. "Won't you move away you you fuckin tornado" Won't you move away you. You, fucking tornado. Move away from the real you. You cause me chaos. Then the ego could be tearing could be tearing his will down or the false god could be tearing his will down. In closing, I'd like to try this from Maynards perspective only..... Stranger, between he and his fans. The calming apple, the knowledge in his music cast, full of seeds, up and over satellites as transmitted around the world, via satellite but also up into outer space, the knowledge as higher thinking, beyond any of our most sophisticated tech. Maybe his knowledge, his music, his fruit has been cast away, or put on a peddistool, it's rich depth could be as unknown as space. This is a trick done by the fans in an effort to draw Maynard the timid and wild one, to convince ourselves it's alright. Or Maynard cast his fruit music to draw out the wild fans, timid as sarcasm, and he has done this to show us, it's alright. If his voice goes everywhere, ours is a whisper...our adoration, while sweet, is insanity...or it's insane because we've missed the point, yet sweet because it's answering still. Maynard writes about the weight of adoration. How difficult it is to remain humble. So, he must formulate denials of our affect on him. The flip side, missing his point, the fan's Interp is insanity, only adored for its shallow sweetness. Maybe he feels this way, so would know he has no real affect on us, any contrary notion would be a denial The chorus as Maynard sees the fan as a stranger So, why would he care....care about our ungenuine idolization, about our insipid adoration, care about meeting us or he could actually care asking him, why do I care? As the fan, the approach him as if they know him, but he is a stranger. He states the obvious for us, why do you care? Why do you make it about me, it's about the message. Vanish today, he is there then gone, he vanishes behind stage, behind the band. Flip, the fans vanish, he meets new ones every day. Maynard, silence meaning his quiet life. Finding truth in quiet. Or if he quit, what would he do. Or, not speaking to such fans, what to do with the silence it leaves. The lack of communication. Fan, what are we to do with his silence in not being approachable or if the true message is lost, there is nothing being communicated. Finally, I just see the last bit as, he is shewing away the fan or shewing away the false adoration or any part of these given falsehoods. Yelling at fan, calling them a child. The crowds chaos a tornado. He is better off without us, we tare his desired will down. Excited to start reading other interns now. Thanks!!! |
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