Light With A Sharpened Edge

Okay. This song is TOTALLY about the mormon church and him leaving it. I was raised mormon, so I can totally relatye to these lyrics. I kinda think that the beginning;

Free from the torment of sin All this I'm giving up....

is almost a mockery towards the mormon church. The mormons believe that their church is the ONLY church authorized by god to forgive sins. Fucked up, I know, but thatever, fuck em. Then there's this part:

Is there another side Beyond the black and white A place I can meet you by A place on other side

The mormons believe that you're either all in on God's side, or all in on the Devil's side, hence the black and white statement. I think this whole song is kinda a big "FUCK YOU!!!" to Bert's parents and the mormon church. That's just my personal opinion, but the fact that I was forced to be mormon until I moved out of my parents house, leads me to believe this.

This isn't my favorite on the album but I still really like it. The lyrics are kind of cryptic, no? I'm trying to decipher. Catchy chorus!

wow.. this song is good. but i think it has a deeper meaning then what bert writes about.. he is kind of stuck in a warpped time in his life that he cant get out of and he moves and stuggles but there is still that kid with the magnifying glass on the ant hill tomenting that ant by burning off just its limbs and leaving its body there to wiggle around and find a diff way of working things out.. he has to cope with this new change in his life and its not him to want to cope but he is giving up things in his life so he can cope with this new change... good song

I'm thinking the title of this song is kind of key to what its about. And the rest of the song seems to go along with this theory.

That he is saying that maybe he likes the darkness too much and likes to be wasted away.

That the purity (light) is too much for him (sharpened edge - it cuts right through him).

The opening line(s) tends to explain it more clearly: "Free from the torment of sin All of this I’m giving up much as The sun would decide to give in Explode into orange"

Sounds like a "when pigs fly" statement. Or maybe he's implying something deeper...

When he gives up sin is when the sun explodes.

Wow, orangepee... that was a really good analogy. I just read your post just now! It definitely goes along with what I'm conveying.

Not to be picky, but the lyrics are "buried wreckage" and not "bury wreckage." The correct lyrics make a lot more sense, "buried wreckage (my soul)" he is calling his soul the wreckage, rather than using bury ("bury wreckage my soul")as an action verb in the incorrect lyrics, which doesn’t make much sense.

outKast, you are entitled to your own opinion, but I don’t see how you think this song sounds both like Zwan & Smashing Pumpkins, which are very different.

Just because the titles both contain SHARP doesn’t mean they are related. At all... "A Box of Sharp Objects" is a song about the joy Bert felt when he realized he was in love with the music he was making in The Used. "A Box of Sharp Objects"= a measure of music (a box) with [sharp] notes; it’s a metaphor. "Light with a Sharpened Edge" = Clarity (Light) from a painful experience (a sharpened edge). so basically your reasons for thinking they've "sold out"- the most commonly misused term in music- are bullshit. True the new album has a poppier, more engineered sound, but it's a different direction, the growth and evolution of the band.

krwing n mie skn: Im saying the Used musical transistion is like Smashing pumkins into Zwan. SP were awesome, musically talented. Then Billy decided to turn spiritual and gay and his band Zwan sucked ass. Notice how they arent around anymore... The Used first Cd was awesome, now they changed, starting to sell out and this stuff isnt good. Though two songs are good. Its just like Staind, they used to be hardcore, got softer, and a little crappier, and then even more poppy and crappier. I just see the same thing happening. Ok, we'll see. The next album they put out will be just like this, except this time a little more poppier and catchier, with probably no more screaming. And if you read some of the lyrics of these song, you could see that he almost admits to changing (Im a Fake) though Im sure your ignorance will think of another meaning behind those lyrics.

and one more thing. This is what I mean by sucking or selling out. Listen to the first CD. Find a band that they sound like, you cant. The Used are The Used, they have thier own thing. Listen to this new CD. Half of this new and "evolved" stuff sounds like everything else out there. Starting Line, Finch, god, I cant even name the rest of that crap. If you want recent bands who went through an actual "growth and evolution" look at the two Atreyu albums. Thats Growing and getting better. Not this.

ok well to me this song is foreshadowing what is to come (in their next cd) because at the end someone says "het lets just go bact to the begining" and then you hear the hard hitting music of "sound effect and overdramatics" i think they are saying they will eventually go back to their old style....but thats just me.....music should represent where you are at in your life and not what popular on the underground scene and whos to say where they are at?

The first and second verses are wrong

outkast524 had the first part right the second part is

"Over and over again light with a sharpened egde cuts through the black empty space we call sky beginning the cycle that stays and I know in my heart we all die like the day and the night like the sun in the sky all this i'm giving up"

I think this is about giving in to pressure because it is just so much that you can't take it anymore

this song was about burts gf dying. its in AP magazine. this is my favorite song on the album.