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Superunknown [*] Lyrics
If this isn't what you see
It doesn't make you blind
Yea, if this doesn't make you feel
It doesn't mean you've died
Where the river's high
Where the river's high
If you don't want to be seen
Well you don't have to hide
And if you don't want to believe
Well you don't have to try to feel alive, yea
Alive in the superunknown
Alive in the superunknown
Alive in the superunknown
First it steals your mind and then it steals your
If this doesn't make you free
It doesn't mean you're tied
If this doesn't take you down
It doesn't mean you're high
If this doesn't make you smile
Yea, you don't have to cry
If this isn't making sense
Yea, it doesn't make it lies, oh
Alive in the superunknown
Alive in the superunknown
Alive in the superunknown
First it steals your mind and then it steals your soul, oh
Get yourself afraid
Get yourself alone
Get yourself contained
Get yourself control, control
Yeah, oh, yeah
Oh, oh
(Alive in the superunknown)
First it steals your mind and then it steals your
First it steals your mind and then it steals your
First it steals your mind and then it steals your soul
It doesn't make you blind
Yea, if this doesn't make you feel
It doesn't mean you've died
Where the river's high
Well you don't have to hide
And if you don't want to believe
Well you don't have to try to feel alive, yea
Alive in the superunknown
Alive in the superunknown
First it steals your mind and then it steals your
It doesn't mean you're tied
If this doesn't take you down
It doesn't mean you're high
Yea, you don't have to cry
If this isn't making sense
Yea, it doesn't make it lies, oh
Alive in the superunknown
Alive in the superunknown
First it steals your mind and then it steals your soul, oh
Get yourself alone
Get yourself contained
Get yourself control, control
Yeah, oh, yeah
Oh, oh
First it steals your mind and then it steals your
First it steals your mind and then it steals your soul
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I'm probably way off the mark of the original meaning, but to me it resonates with the melee of life and the disparateness that exists between individuals. We will never see the world through the eyes and experiences of another person, but that doesn't make our own take on the world any less valid. Taken to extremes one can start obsessing about the lives of others, particularly when it comes to celebrities and popular figures, and there's a danger one can begin to live vicariously through the perceived life projected onto such an individual. Of course, what one believes another's life to be like is never accurate and cannot be, but as the obsessive fan of a celebrity, sports personality, pop idol etc, it could become all consuming until one begins to believe they are not really living because they don't have the other person's experiences. But at the end of the day, we're all alive in this restless ocean of humanity where one person's perspective is completely unknowable to another's.
As a banal example, I often look up at and see an airliner streaking across the sky and I sometimes wonder who the people are onboard, where they are going and for what purpose. It's a mystery to me and in my head I might imagine myself jetting off to an exotic location for a few weeks of relaxation somewhere. But, just because I'm not it doesn't make my own reality any less valid.