Loose Translation Lyrics
In a green T-shirt that read, I quote
"We're past elation now"
With a leap of faith
The loose translation must have lost her
It must have caused her to go back
And the real one
Just to say what you'd begun to say once
All through the pride of fall
The falling price of education now
There have been no clues in the last few takes
In the steps retraced
It must have caused her to go back
To the civilization caught between here
And the real one
Just to say what you'd begun to say once
The loose translation must have lost her
It must have lost her, yeah.
I think this is about religion. The home-made (home-schooled) girl wears a tshirt that says what price damnation, meaning she's chosen to step out and explore the world beyond her religious upbringing, at the supposed cost of her eternal soul. The loose translation lost her, which means she no longer believes what's written in the Bible, a loose translation of old myths. The pride of fall is a reference to original sin. Possibly he's saying "wrong schools" are religious teachings, which are taught out of man's arrogance in believing he knows the nature of God.
No one has anything to say about this awesome song???
It makes me think of how religion holds back progress in society (ex. stem-cell research) by embodying it in a "home make girl" that is confused and unprepared in a scientific world that doesn't believe in what she's been taught her whole life.
But that's just my opinion...
Why has only one other person commented this song? It's one of the best off Electric Version, if not THE best. I'm not sure, I think it could relate to how some people's presonalities change so much while going through schooland how if somebody ends up in the wrong group instead of with you it can cause them to change for the worse. Just a thought.
Good to hear "pop" music that is also very intelligently made (intelligent design anyone? lol) I agree with the previous two posters. It can either be that certain "education" may be a mistake and/or, that a sheltered education based on "loose translation" (i.e. fundamentalist interpretation of the bible) caused the girl much confusion with the real world.
Great song, catchy as hell.
I submitted this via the correction form:
One holy ghost for a home made girl In a green T-shirt that read, I quote: "What price damnation now?"
In the school of thought In the halls of state With a leap of faith The loose translation must have lost her
It must have caused her to go back To the civilization Caught between here and the real one Just to say what you'd begun to say once
We have been enrolled in the wrong schools All through the pride of fall The falling price of education now
There have been no clues in the last few takes In the steps retraced The education must have cost her It must have caused her to go back To the civilization Caught between here and the real one Just to say what you'd begun to say once
The education must have cost her The loose translation must have lost her It must have lost her Yeah