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Grand Unification, Pt. II Lyrics
Mankind has always wondered about the kind of universe it lives in.
Mankind has always indulged in creation myths as far back as recorded history goes,
And it's just human nature to want to understand the universe we live in,
Where it came from, what it is now and where it's going
With all apologies you wake me up
You hold the porcelain to take me home
Hold my hand until the waves come
Hold my hand until the waves come
This is our last, take care love
It won't stop, it won't stop a thing
With all apologies you wake me up
You hold the porcelain to take me home
Hold my hand until the waves come
The waves come
Just hold my hand until the waves come
The waves come around
Well, the Einstein equations are sort of the Mount Everest of theoretical physics,
And, you know, we want to get to the top,
We want to be able to make Einstein's equations routine to solve.
We would like to have undergraduates be able to solve Einstein's equations routinely.
Might as well have grade school kids doing it because, you know, the physics is intuitive.
Grade school kids know about black holes and they might want to know 'Gosh,
What happens if I drop a black hole into a black hole'
Mankind has always indulged in creation myths as far back as recorded history goes,
And it's just human nature to want to understand the universe we live in,
Where it came from, what it is now and where it's going
You hold the porcelain to take me home
Hold my hand until the waves come
It won't stop, it won't stop a thing
You hold the porcelain to take me home
The waves come
Just hold my hand until the waves come
The waves come around
And, you know, we want to get to the top,
We want to be able to make Einstein's equations routine to solve.
We would like to have undergraduates be able to solve Einstein's equations routinely.
Might as well have grade school kids doing it because, you know, the physics is intuitive.
Grade school kids know about black holes and they might want to know 'Gosh,
What happens if I drop a black hole into a black hole'
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Well, as somebody posted in The Grand Unification Part I, the album is a concept album about the last day on Earth. What I see as happening, is this character broke up with his girlfriend (or whatever, bear with me), and then as the end of the world approaches he realises he didn't really want to leave her, and they try to fix things but they know it will be over soon. I think the 'hold my hand until the waves come' refers to some kind of tsunami that will swamp and destroy everything, maybe I'm just making links to the album cover. Oh well.
I Think This Song Is Comparing The End Of A Relationship To The End Of The World I Love How It Starts Off Soft And Delicate And Becomes Fierce And Defensive Almost How Break-Ups Go At First You're Sad Then You Get Angry And Have Outbursts
the only lyric i'm having trouble with is
"you hold the porcelain to take me home"
what does that mnea, the rest follows the whole theme but that seems really out of place
I agree with the other comments: first thing I think when I hear "you hold the porcelain to take me home" Is the porcelain urns used to hold someone's cremated ashes... But if it's the end of the world, who knows what use that's gonna be? XD
I think the song is about death (possibly euthanasia).
With all apologies you wake me up
You hold the porcelain to take me home
Hold my hand until the waves come
This is our last, take care love
Lift when the song becomes heavy is the persons last breaths as they die and the calm following is once they are dead, peaceful.
I think the song is too pogniant to be simply the breaking up of a relationship, it sounds like the death of a relative, lover, or member of close family.
i know this doesnt agree with the whole "end of the world" thing, but i think its about someone being sick, and probably hungover. holding the porcealin is holding the toilet seat while theyre being sick and the "waves" coming, is the waves of sickness its probably not right, but just an idea.
i don't believe in God myself as im atheist but to me this is all a big song about how wen the end of the world comes and God will try his best to save us all. the apologies were from Jesus when he died at the cross for us, the second line i take it as we are God's porcelain dolls and he is to try one last time to save us. the waves are like wen the world was once flooded with Noah and God held his hand as such to save the planet as God can't let his creation die, as he loves it too much. the heavy part is as the earth is being destroyed and god protects us with all his might and power. and the narration is how humans are trying to understand everything and that all we have come to are a set of numbers. i will get back to these lyrics about the narration wen i look into it more....
I like how open to interpretation these lyrics are. I think all the explanations offered so far are right (except the hangover thing, that's just juvenile.) The image of waves could be a literal reference to the end of the world or they could represent death judgment or the rebirth of the world, all of which would be in keeping with the themes of the album. The one thing I can't understand is the narration and why it's included. It could be about feeling lost in the world but that's a wild guess.
Actually this song seems to be about the human instrumentality project. I mean, Fightstar did say that this whole album was inspired by it after all.