Vein of Stars Lyrics
it made me think the first time i heard it, that, i and we, need to treasure what we have..if we don't enjoy what there is now, we'll never be able to enjoy anything. theres so much beauty in the world. a vein of stars..that makes me think of a river of starlight, guiding you. maybe we need to make our own river of stars. our own beaten path to dreamland, because heaven is right here and now.
To me it seems like the vein of stars is referring to constellations, and that its using astrology to talk about superstition in general. Its considering the concept that maybe life isnt predetermined, despite your horoscopic astrological sign, and maybe neither is death. 25, 26, 27 could be just numerology and more superstition, or it could very well be wayne has hidden some treasure somewhere and these are the coordinates. I wouldnt put it past him.
Do you live for death, or do you live for life? Should you be a good person because you are scared what will happen to you when you die, or should you do it for another, maybe less self-centered, reason. Maybe you might not need to worry about it anymore then?
"Nothing there to see you down on your knees" = "No god listening to your prayers.
Meh. I think that if you can accept death as the END, then that can make you a strong and happy person.
I think "25, 26, 26," is just the writer lying on his back counting stars in the night.
Maybe there isnt?
Vein of stars, I'm guessing this is referring to a higher being? To fit in context with the rest of the album...fear of death, maybe this is asking do we fear death because of a higher being?
This song makes me sad. "And if there ain't no heaven, maybe there ain't no hell" ok then so what's the point? There's just nothing after this life? That thought makes me sad. Is that what he's saying, that this is it, there's nothing more than this life? I can't fathom that. It would just seem like such a waste.
Look around. Nature is almost always a waste. As humans, we have this rare capacity to empathize, to do selfless good. If you think that people are only cabable of noble deeds in the face of an eternal reward, than that is sad, and makes such human goodness cheap and self-serving.
Look around. Nature is almost always a waste. As humans, we have this rare capacity to empathize, to do selfless good. If you think that people are only cabable of noble deeds in the face of an eternal reward, than that is sad, and makes such human goodness cheap and self-serving.
Humans need reason. We weren't meant to understand everything, but it still tortures me that if we need reason, then why can't we have it? Maybe it's about finding comfort even if there isn't heaven or hell. In "The Spark that Bled", it suggests that religion might just be a form of comfort.
Human beings, as we are now, can never really understand the afterlife or our place in the universe so to try and figure it out or judge it is just bogus. At least that's what I think it means.
does anyone have the tabs for this song? ultimate-guitar has some, but it's in some strange f6 tuning that i've never heard of. anyone have simpler tabs?
I don't have the tabs, but after watching Wayne play it, it seems like just a simple open tuning of a minor chord (probably E or D) with maybe a 6 or 7 or 9 thrown in. And it's just two chords, so you strum it open, leaving your fingers ready to bar the other position. The rythmn guitar is is cake.
I don't have the tabs, but after watching Wayne play it, it seems like just a simple open tuning of a minor chord (probably E or D) with maybe a 6 or 7 or 9 thrown in. And it's just two chords, so you strum it open, leaving your fingers ready to bar the other position. The rythmn guitar is is cake.
Amc- if there ain't no heaven, then that means there probably ain't no hell... which is a GOOD thing, since according to the doctrine of the Abrahamic religions, if there was a hell, most of us would go there. So look forward that all that's going to happen when you die is that you're going to rot, and not burn in hellfire for ETERNITY. I happen to think it more comforting that life ends when it ends, it is the end of all joy, true, but it also is the end of all suffering. Life isn't a waste, you just have to make the most of what you have while you're here. Maybe you'd survive after your death but in a different fashion- maybe leave behind a legacy or something to that effect. Anyway, I wish this song was there for me a couple years ago when I started questioning my own faith. I think it would have comforted and eased my transition into atheism, but who knows?