White

I love this song...prolly one of my fav SfK songs

this song seems to be about religion. the first verse centers on someone's thought that Heaven is imminent, and that thought is a requirement. The chorus is about how the observer believes that this is "wishful thinking and fantasy". He "hope(s) that you're not, hoping for [him]". The second verse appears to be about the scientific crowd, and how they ask us to just line up in particular order. "I know that you can't be knowing for me" is a shot against those who say "it doesn't matter what you think, God (or science) is right". A great look at how many can be disillusioned by both sides.

This song seems to be a message from the narrator who is an atheist to a loved one who is religious. Paul Dempsey, the main song writer, does not believe in souls or an afterlife.\n\nWhite seems to be Heaven. Somewhere outside what? Our experience? The planet? Reality? Religious people feel very connected to their beliefs, and incorporate them into their identity. Who is knocking on the door? God? Death? Eternity is a policy of religion. The mysteries of religion are wishful thinking and fantasy. I hope you\'re not praying for my soul, because I don\'t believe in souls. How did something as complex as the eye come about? Your reason can\'t imagine it, so you think God did it from outer space (or Heaven). He\'s asking you to not make a fuss and obey. When we die, we will be dead for infinity. Religion provides life jackets and sympathy so we don\'t have to face the reality of our mortality, but it\'s bullshit daydreams. You think I know God is real, but I know you can\'t know something on my behalf.\n\nThe song can be listened to as 3/4 or 4/4 from beginning to end (two bars of 3/4 per one bar of 4/4). Somehow these incompatible time signatures can work together, just as religious and atheistic views can align and sync up at times. The song tricks us into focusing on just one time signature at a time, and appears to swap between them, but that is also an illusion.