Clear

It's a song about all his other songs. He's asking do you like my songs because of the beat? Or are you actually listening to the words and understanding what he's saying. You can't change peoples hearts and minds by sitting on the street corner spouting out your beliefs.

Instead, he chose to write his feelings through song and attack peoples thoughts and preconceptions by cleverly phrasing his opinions and ideas through his music.

It seems he's trying to be clear about his faith and how it relates to his lyrics. He's trying to find the best way to open people to conversation and thoughts about God, redemption, and our purpose in life. In it all, he's trying to be clear about God's greater love.

I love the way this connects to Goner. Don't know if it was on purpose, but I oved making this connection.

"I wish that I had two faces" / "I've got two faces"

One of my favorite TOP songs. After reading these comments and learning the meaning I love it even more now, but I wanted to share the connection I made, too.

Doubt sounds alot like this song

I always thought it was "I'm the sum of all I've done" not the son

I agree. This song like many of their songs is about the inner spiritual battle we all deal with on a daily basis and also from our pasts. I believe this is a song about the phases of the journey to enlightenment.

I think the "clarity" he is referring to here is within the lyrics "Impostor, been fostered, then my new father drained my dirty blood "

Phase "Imposter" - referring to the initial struggle with being/becoming a Christian. There is a lot of tug-a-war between your old life and your new identity in your new Christian beliefs. "Two Faces."

Phase "Been Fostered" - while exploring christianity, one can hear God being referred to as "father." As you journey more and more under God's wing, it is almost like you are an orphaned child being fostered by a new true parent (God).

Phase "then my new father drained my dirty blood" - This is where I think the song title "Clear" derived from. Literally when you accept Jesus into your heart, you realize your new father sent his son to drain your dirty blood, in other words sacrificed himself and bled so we're forgiven and no longer have dirty blood. We are free. We are CLEAR.

And that my friends indeed is a greater love.

In my opinion this song is about self harm\depression for many reasons. In the very beginning, it talks about having 2 faces, which one is screaming for help and the other one hides their feelings. It then says once they are alone they truly release their feelings, and trying to act put together in front of family. It then says about telling the family about where their mind has gone and telling them about possibly hurting themself. The family in this song would then freak out, and cause a war. They writer has caused the people that they love most emotional pain, or shot their own general. They are the results of all of their flaws and bad choices, they have hidden it, turned into something they are not, and become very sad and lonely. In the next verses, they talk about how they have to think and experience their feelings to do their job, and how it requires much more than a brain to do their job. They have to find a creative way to mentally get inside themself and create a positive energy from their past experiences. After the band ends, they will have left a larger message for future generations. The next few lyrics claim even after that, they are still not done. They explain how the new version of themself has taken their place, and how they are not being really true to their beliefs. If the audience looks further, they will find an even more meaningful version of the song. They mentioned in the end about telling fans about how to get though it, and how they should take a place. They sing of a greater love, possibly religion or finding themselves in the world.