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Unobstructed Views Lyrics
There's no eye in the sky
Just our love
No unobstructed views, no perfect truths
Just our love
And there's no verse, no monument of words
For my love
For they can't hold all I know
About my love
Storms clouds break
Pools remain
Memories flood
Earthen graves
Evaporate
To up above
Where they become
New love
Just our love
No unobstructed views, no perfect truths
Just our love
And there's no verse, no monument of words
For my love
For they can't hold all I know
About my love
Pools remain
Memories flood
Earthen graves
Evaporate
To up above
Where they become
New love
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Submitted by
thrushave On May 23, 2011
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Love the long intro and the clear, loud vocals that pop out.
The song is about love being the center of life. Love being truly indescribable. For nothing else exists, beside it when you are so involved with another. The bond is beyond anything else we believe.
Zooey
There's no eye in the sky (God) Just our love No unobstructed view (Our "limited" understanding of reality that many theists claim) No perfect truths (No absolute Truth. Things are what you make of it) Just our love Just our love And there's no verse No monument of words (Bible) For our love For they can't hold All I know about my love, about my love (Love is a lot more than just following rules and worshiping a god. Love is about acting the best you can to people. Love is about forgiving. Love is not something that can even be captivated in a book for that would ruin the essence of love, for love is an experience. You can learn about love, but learning about love is like learning about skydiving: it just doesn't compare to the experience. The narrator knows that he's experienced love and he knows that the verses, the monuments of words, can't accurately describe the feeling of love.)
Storm clouds break Pools remain memories for Earth embrace That umbrate up above They become New love New love (Shit may happen. But eventually the stormclouds break. People may have died that loved people, or perhaps the love is just gone for one reason or another, but through their memories, their pools left behind, they inspire us to love more. As the sun comes out shining upon them, they cast a shadow down below (umbrate) and when we see this shadow, when we reflect upon their love, we make new love in their stead.)
Woops, meant to put this in the post, not needing to put as a reply.
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The second stanza interpretation is kinda shaky, imo. It doesn't feel like it fits so I think I'm missing a metaphor.
The second stanza interpretation is kinda shaky, imo. It doesn't feel like it fits so I think I'm missing a metaphor.
The way I see this song is that it's recognizing that religions may make love, they may do good, but in the end, if there's no god, as Gibbard plainly states in the first verse, all we have from that is the love. And he knows love. He's experienced love. He knows that all the verses in there don't describe love. They describe...
The way I see this song is that it's recognizing that religions may make love, they may do good, but in the end, if there's no god, as Gibbard plainly states in the first verse, all we have from that is the love. And he knows love. He's experienced love. He knows that all the verses in there don't describe love. They describe other more vile things, and there's a teensy bit about love. But it's mostly love God, serve God, put God before everyone else.
In the end, we don't need religion if everyone loves everyone.
Storms clouds break (when something bad happens to us i.e. break up, lost of loved ones) Pools remain Memories flood (the pain remains, and it floods our memory and our mind - we become affected by it) Earthen graves Evaporate (for those who has lost everything, still have one thing left, and that is time. And with time these painful memories slow evaporate from flooding our minds - we become lighter as we slowly chip the burden of our shoulders) To up above (indicating the process and cycle where rain takes place, and to everything, there is a cycle, including the grieving of our pain, and so "this too shall pass") Where they become New love (and through this process we break free from the chains of our past)
i think ertai88 has it. as for the first verse, his love is either Zooey (undoubtedly) or a symbol or inanimate object perhaps? What I get from "There's no eye in the sky" is Ben saying there's no God as atheism is a recurring theme in the album.
Shallow Hal?