The Death Of Music

This song convinced me that Devin has read The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.

"Myself and I There is no other"

Eckhart had this epiphany also through an extreme anxiety attack, almost not able to breath, saying "I can't live with myself! What? I and myself... maybe just one of them is real."

And thus he enlightened and years later began to teach people. Myself and I refers to your ego and the REAL you, the calm wise watcher behind it.

This song is absolutely amazing. It has a very slow build-up into an astonishing eargasm. If you have the patience, this is Devin's most rewarding song. Can't even begin to interpret the meaning, though.

Wow. This song is something so magnificent. Awesome.

Wow. This song is something so magnificent. Awesome.

I interpret the song as discussing death again and the feelings and meanings it has to everyone. It makes the statement that death is in the ocean, e.g. life. You cannot hide from death in a physical sense so 'mountains' will provide no safety and neither will 'clouds'. The ethereal inevitability of death will claim everyone and whether we 'drown, fly, or fall from faith' when we face it, is up to us.

The last parts of the song are more feelings of loss and mourning for people who have died. Missing our loved ones who have died. The musical bit of death is the cascade of emotion, highs and lows, that dealing with death brings to someone. Thus death is musical, both good and bad parts of it.

From SYL's Skin Me: "It's just a feeling I have It's like a feeling of death You can't be in it for the cash You must be in it for life And if your houes I need And if the payment is real And if your mind is at ease That is the death of music "

'One comes, the rain will always be And things I am Are things that should not be They laughed at me but we never bothered

My friends and I There were no others'

This bit seems to discuss when you're younger and we rely on our friends to get us through. When we're young we don't have a sense of who we truly are. The rain suggests things will always happen, bad things, good things, because life is musical, there's a beginning and an end. The next refrain sorta thing:

'Rain may come The rain may never be In things you are Are things I need to be My friends were there but they never bothered

Now there's you and I an There are no others'

This seems to deal with when you've met your significant other, and you realise the friends you thought you could rely on are gone-and you seem to focus on what you have now-which is your lover/husband/wife. The death of a friendship seemed to happen, almost musically.

'The rain will come The rain will always be In things I am Are things that have to be My friends have come and I never bothered

Myself and I There is no other'

This bit is when you realise that you can only ever trust yourself, only ever rely on yourself because you may have friends, you may have a lover but the one person you can count on is yourself.

The idea of music equalling emotion is hinted all the way through this song. Living is musical as things will always happen, things will always end.

I agree with Danny, it does seem to be a progression through life and the different events; I always got the feeling listening to this song though when he repeats 'never bothered' and 'there is no other' that there was some kind of missed oppertunity. You know I've heard that when Devin finished mixing this song, he hid under his desk because he was scared of it! I think I would be too though if I wrote something this deep

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To me it seems to represent the bipolar disorder Devin was diagnosed with, in a way that no one will understand him (or them) except himself.

They laughed at me but we never bothered

He is happy just the way he is, even though people picked on him for having mental problems

In things you are Are things I need to be My friends were there but they never bothered

His friends knew of the troubled mind, but they still accepted him. Also, he also accepted it: what he is was also what his other personality is, because they share the body.

And it comes... To make sure that he will never rise

Maybe he finally was cured, and with the death of the problem, he made a song about it - thus musical.

Don't die on me Don't go away When I need you here In my need

Finally he discovers that he misses the other personality, perhaps as a source of confidence in friendship (within), and he feels lonesome with the other side gone.

My friends have come and I never bothered Myself and I There is no other

His friends finally had had enough of the mental problems and left him, before his curing? Now it's just himself alone.