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Staving Off Truth Lyrics
Grasping at the edge
Somewhere on the other side
Tending the sleeping ground
Clutching to the knife
Slipping out of day
Machinery drowning out
Fortress inner world
Staving off the doubt
Wrestling memories
Hold the past in broken arms
Shards cut to the quick
Before the cruciform
Morning star is the dawn
Cast the shadow of the cross
Grasping in the dark
For answers to the loss
Are we waiting just to leave?
Is there an answer which eludes?
We stand upon a floating world
Simply staving off the truth
Somewhere on the other side
Tending the sleeping ground
Clutching to the knife
Machinery drowning out
Fortress inner world
Staving off the doubt
Hold the past in broken arms
Shards cut to the quick
Before the cruciform
Cast the shadow of the cross
Grasping in the dark
For answers to the loss
Is there an answer which eludes?
We stand upon a floating world
Simply staving off the truth
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I get a sense of this song condemning human nature in its attachment to religion, tradition, and certain past ideologies. 'Staving off the doubt' that we could be wrong about certain beliefs.
I think 'we stand upon a floating world / simply staving off the truth' is a reference to human ignorance / unconscious avoidance of certain existential realisations; the absurdity of life and the way we often commit 'philosophical suicide' by trying to draw too much meaning from things. I don't think it would make sense for life to make sense, from within the 'living' perspective.