We Have Forgotten

Before their new record label completely revamped Sixpence’s official website, Matt Slocum explained the first three songs on this album are a trilogy. Despite whatever double spiritual meaning these lyrics may have, We Have Forgotten is about groping for one’s dreams and them seeing them crash when everything in life distracts you from your real goal. In this case, the money and excitement of being in a band distracted Sixpence from their simple dream of creating good art. The line about starting to like this town is an expression of this complacency. Anything describes trying to create art despite the powers at be simply exploiting the subject for money. The metaphor of giving birth is used here. Not to mention them using his talents to be forged into just another Jesus band. In Waiting Room of the World the subject calls out to the same baby, born in artistic haste to please the puppet masters, and ask when it’s true form will appear.

In other words, this trilogy, together with other songs on this album, is about how the CCM industry screwed them over. I would cite my sources as proof, but like I said, their old website is gone.

Dreams are easy to have but hard to make reality. The writer is content with that and doesn't want to try to change the way it goes because it'll eventually go wrong.

Yeah, I think it's about not wanting to wake up from a dream.

we've forgotten how it used to be... in the garden of eden, when we weren't broken. now all we can do is romance our failures until we think they're beautiful. but we've forgotten what beauty really is.

i believe you and i remember the old site but never came across that. sad, slocum seems like a very deep person. i love this album and while i treasure their new works i believe there is something very special they had after their self-titled album that kind of dissapeared.

pardon, i mean in their self titled album and before that.

The first time I heard this song was the first time that I believe that I heard "real" music and lyrics. I am very fond of this tune.

I understand their discontent with not being able to create what they want to create. However, I think the industry is all about entertainment. That's why artists who are still able to manage in the music industry, still entertain audiences, whether through evolving their image and sound like Madonna, putting on frequent tours (U2, DMB), etc. If you think about it, people do not necessarily have the musical training or interest in melancholy or deep music, at least I do. I don't want to debate, it just my two cents. This song is one of my favorites.