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Awake!! Lyrics
Hey... You're awake.
And you keeps you where you wanted to be known.
That's alright, You know that you've been framed.
All the way.
And it keeps you where you wanted to be known
But that's alright, you're only human, boy
Take your inhibitions going home.
Walk on home, boy!
Hey! You're awake!
And that keeps you where you're wanting to be owned.
That's alright, you're only evil
'Eh' all the way!
And it keeps you where you wanting to be owned.
That's alright, you're only human boy
So stay a while...
All the world's a stage and we are home again, home again
All the world's afraid, but we are home again, home again
Away from home? WAIT!
I died a little (WAITING! WAITING! WAIT!)
I died a little (WAITING! WAITING! WAIT!)
I want to be set free,
On the road again for you and me.
Tell your partner that you'll be on the way
Get up, get up, get up
WE'RE FAR TOO OLD TO WHINE ABOUT IT!
Hey, you're awake.
And it keeps you where you've wanted to be known.
That's alright, We knew we knew the way... All the way.
And it keeps us where we wanted to be on time...
Oh, then sooner or later it comes...
And we're free!
I'm free!
I'm free!
All the world's a stage and we are home again, home again
All the world's afraid, but we are home again, home again
Away from home? WAIT!
I died a little (WAITING! WAITING! WAIT!)
I died a little (WAITING! WAITING! WAIT!)
I died a little (WAITING! WAITING! WAIT!)
I want to be set free
on the bond again for you and for me.
Without a haunted song we'd be all alone
So get up, get up, get up, get up,
NOW DECONSTRUCT!
All the worlds afraid....all the worlds afraid...
And we looked up to the stars last night
And I saw that maybe...there was nothing more?
...and my thought turned!
And you keeps you where you wanted to be known.
That's alright, You know that you've been framed.
All the way.
And it keeps you where you wanted to be known
But that's alright, you're only human, boy
Take your inhibitions going home.
Walk on home, boy!
And that keeps you where you're wanting to be owned.
That's alright, you're only evil
'Eh' all the way!
And it keeps you where you wanting to be owned.
That's alright, you're only human boy
So stay a while...
All the world's afraid, but we are home again, home again
Away from home? WAIT!
I died a little (WAITING! WAITING! WAIT!)
On the road again for you and me.
Tell your partner that you'll be on the way
Get up, get up, get up
WE'RE FAR TOO OLD TO WHINE ABOUT IT!
And it keeps you where you've wanted to be known.
That's alright, We knew we knew the way... All the way.
And it keeps us where we wanted to be on time...
And we're free!
I'm free!
I'm free!
All the world's afraid, but we are home again, home again
Away from home? WAIT!
I died a little (WAITING! WAITING! WAIT!)
I died a little (WAITING! WAITING! WAIT!)
on the bond again for you and for me.
Without a haunted song we'd be all alone
So get up, get up, get up, get up,
NOW DECONSTRUCT!
And I saw that maybe...there was nothing more?
...and my thought turned!
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awesome song, my favourite off the new album
All the world's a stage and we are home again, home again
This gets me shivers!
It's all about self awareness, and becoming an improved self, and leaving behind an old self. Like everything from Devin it has meaning, and like most things from this particular period of his work it's about change and rebirth. It's incredibly potent and meaningful being part of the Ki, Addicted and Deconstructed trilogy of albums.
Though Devin says he doesn't want to bring religion and politics to his songs, he sure keeps alluring to an afterlife (or deities) quite often.
And Derrida was an atheist of Jewish extraction who spent his rather prolific life as a philosopher working on expanding and demarcating the good bits of Levinas' work (a practicing Jewish person who used to claim, hilariously, that his sociological publications and his religious publications were on different publishers so quit asking him about the god thing). Later Derrida would often refer, using Levinas' language and expanding on it, to the "trace of God" or "the shadow of the trace" found in the context, text, and subtext of various kinds of real interactions.
And Derrida was an atheist of Jewish extraction who spent his rather prolific life as a philosopher working on expanding and demarcating the good bits of Levinas' work (a practicing Jewish person who used to claim, hilariously, that his sociological publications and his religious publications were on different publishers so quit asking him about the god thing). Later Derrida would often refer, using Levinas' language and expanding on it, to the "trace of God" or "the shadow of the trace" found in the context, text, and subtext of various kinds of real interactions.
From an anthropological...
From an anthropological context, spirituality and music are the two uniform things we have somehow managed to more or less all do, to some regard, from ancient tribes' animism to modern christianity or whatever. Spirituality and religion have, for better or worse, informed the human experience deeply; and so even though it may not carry a literal meaning - or even though it may seem, in context, to /be/ religious and not to really make sense unless it is literal - imo Devin's simply drawing on a fairly rich source material that most of his audience will be at least passingly familiar with, offering great metaphorical coherence when working with subject matter as evocative as music.
Most members of Greek nobility, in day-to-day life, weren't especially pious, but that doesn't mean they didn't draw very freely from their religious traditions when discussing difficult subjects. Metaphors can illuminate. Don't always, though. Up to the listener whether Devin's metaphors mean something more to said listener. As to the hermeneutics of what Devin intends, well, if you ever get a chance to ask him, by all means :p