I don't know if I'm accurate on this one but... Jeff's first CD was Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club by the Beatles. On that CD is a song called Within You/Without You, by George Harrison... I'm sure many of you have heard it. If you haven't heard or listened to that song I suggest you do. (All you need is Love is another one.)
Okay, so the first stanza is asking a question, on the surface its about a girl... on closer inspection it is asking the listener a question "Can you still find the time and the signs To look around" (?)
The chorus is about a desire for knowledge, knowing about 'the other side' ; "Everything would change there And we'd all be free" - These two lines are parallels to George Harrison's composition.
The third stanza is really cryptic. I read a quote by Pythagoras that said "A stone is frozen music." what this means is that everything is a vibration, like music. A frozen stone is just slow waves of energy. This being said, a mountain is the same as man. "And you place your faith in a mountain But what you don't understand Is that the man is The same old rock"
The fifth and final stanza is quite blatant. "These are the times When we live inside our minds" Meditation is becoming very popular, it is the key to a higher form of being, Jeff is saying this should be the time when we live inside our minds. "In the slipstream, It's like a daydream" the higher frequencies or levels of meditation are like a slipstream or a daydream. "These are the days When we're dancing through the haze With our ears to the ground We're searching for the sound Of a dove's cry, but it won't be over until" Jeff is saying that we are now dancing through a haze, unable to see the light so we have our ears to the ground, but we only hear the cry of a dove. The cry of a dove symbolizes death, and the entire world is fighting.
Take it or leave it, thats just what I got out of it. I mean on the surface its about a girl... but I just see more in it.
Cheers~
toolhead86on September 20, 2007 Link
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