Arc of Time (Time Code) Lyrics
"arc of time" is about finding the one thing in life that is worth depending on. .. or maybe the fact that nothing in life is worth depending on.
make sense? allow me to explain.....
TIME-
time is inaccurate. there was this experiment where they sent people really fast in airplanes and blah blah blah - they discovered that time was WRONG. it was inaccurate. but... we, as a society, depend on time. in society, time is looked at as a constant.. though, in reality, it is not completely accurate. our lives revolve around time. everything we do is at a certain time. we plan around the clock. we depend our lives on something that is not dependable.
the second aspect of time recognized in the song is how we plan for the future, though we plan what will happen later in life - we have no way of telling what will happen between then and now that will change our plans. you can make your plans, and believe they will happen .. but the future will always remain a mystery.
We are searching for something in life to depend on... for something to be constant. we thought we found it in time, but, in fact... time will not suffice.
He also suggests that people can try to find the constant in LOVE, MUSIC, and ACTION/MOVEMENT and DEATH.
RELIGION -
it's not clear whether conor is trying to promote or mock religion - but that's not important to the meaning of the song, anyway. it's simply the presentation of an idea. christians claim that God is THE constant. that when everything else fails, (time, music, death, the future, the present, EVERYTHING) you will meet with god.. the only thing/person who stayed the same through everything. you can choose to either look at the song one way or the other (that's the beauty of conor's writing.). conor can either be saying that there IS no constant in life and that there is nothing worth depending on ... or that god is the constant in life, and that he's the ONLY thing worth depending on.
Go back and read the first line of my comment. Make anymore sense?
you guys keep calling conor a genius... but don't give him enough credit with your 'song-evalutations.' this song is so much deeper, in my opinion, than you guys see. conor is a genius. extremely bright. and has the ability to take the most complex things.. and make them simple. he is amazing. so.. look a little deeper into his songs?
mm, really beautiful. this is one of my faves off digital ash.
beautiful...this CD is so amazing i can't stand it.
yeah this is a great song. but i didnt think the CD was out yet? how are you hearing it
it was leaked a few weeks ago with the other cd due out in jan. - "I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning". it's available on lots of bittorrent websites and etc.
okay i have no idea what bittorrent websites are...but im gonna try my best.
?? This is a very "pop-py" song... I'm surprised. I'm not sure if I like it...
mmm..but i think thats kinda what he was going for on digital ash...
"you can choose the high, or the lower row, "
it's "road" instead of "row"
makes me wanna dance. its good.