Classic love story true to his western tx roots. One of my favorites as a story, but I think there are alot of songs that are amazing not even listed on this site. I guess I should figure out how to add them, because I have about 8 REK cd's.
This is my sense of reality
This is proof of my coming of age
This is truth in captivity
This is loosing a theology, I
I'm a soul taker
I'm a cruel, witted mind
This is my sense of reality
This is proof of my coming of age
I'm a soul taker
I'm a cruel witted mind
Are you with me?
Are you of my mind?
Are you with me?
Are you of my mind?
Waking, falling, free of gravity
We just severed these umbilical wires
This is more than just affinity
We're moving further through an endless desire
I'm a soul taker
I'm a cruel witted mind
Come again, I feel a breakdown
Let's go higher
This is the sound of your
Reason to wake
Have we forgotten now?
Can we relate?
It's backwards, it makes no sense
So real that we can't pretend
It's backwards, it makes no sense
It's harder to just pretend
Say it once more
Say it again
That this is the end
Of all I know
Say it once more
Say it again
That this is the end
Of all I know
Are you with me?
(Can we relate?)
Are you of my mind?
Are you with me?
(Can we relate?)
Are you off my mind?
Say it once more
Say it again
That this is the end
Of all I know
Say it once more
Say it again
That this is the end
Of all I know
This is proof of my coming of age
This is truth in captivity
This is loosing a theology, I
I'm a soul taker
I'm a cruel, witted mind
This is my sense of reality
This is proof of my coming of age
I'm a soul taker
I'm a cruel witted mind
Are you with me?
Are you of my mind?
Are you with me?
Are you of my mind?
Waking, falling, free of gravity
We just severed these umbilical wires
This is more than just affinity
We're moving further through an endless desire
I'm a soul taker
I'm a cruel witted mind
Come again, I feel a breakdown
Let's go higher
This is the sound of your
Reason to wake
Have we forgotten now?
Can we relate?
It's backwards, it makes no sense
So real that we can't pretend
It's backwards, it makes no sense
It's harder to just pretend
Say it once more
Say it again
That this is the end
Of all I know
Say it once more
Say it again
That this is the end
Of all I know
Are you with me?
(Can we relate?)
Are you of my mind?
Are you with me?
(Can we relate?)
Are you off my mind?
Say it once more
Say it again
That this is the end
Of all I know
Say it once more
Say it again
That this is the end
Of all I know
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Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
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There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
As most Karnivool fans would know, this song was previously called "Pearogram". I'm pretty sure this was a combination of the words "Pear" and "Anagram", with the most obvious anagram of "pear" being "rape". As such, I think the song is in reference to a system/structure in place which is metaphorically "raping" our society. This certainly fits in with the first verse, which appears to be sung from the first person perspective of this system/structure. I'n not sure exactly what system/structure this is in reference to, although mazzypants might be right in saying it's about religion/religious institutions, which would certainly fit in with some of the aithiest sentiments in other songs on the album (namely Caudal Lure, and Set Fire To The Hive).
Obviously I've gone right out on a limb here, and could be completely wrong, but just thought that might offer some insight.
I interpret as sawyejr has done in the sense of systems and structures that either metaphorically or in more realistically "rape" society. I'm don't see the song as necessarily focussing on religious systems and structures although they may be included. My interpretation of the album as a whole is that there are systems and structures that are in place that do harm and degrade socity and they are in place for the sole reason that we allow them to be. The way forward is for us each to be responsible for what we allow to happen, not only to us but to others - to form an alliance of like minds to confront and reject the things that do harm and degrade. For this reason, I see and hear New Day as anthemic in terms of the futre.
Yeah, it makes me think of Winston and Julia in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.