by Nasus on 06-01-2004 @ 04:14:57 AM
'Clip-on world' is a great phrase to sum up the idea of the entire song. Fake, pre-packaged..just handed to him. And 'dirt turned to sand'..what a way to describe growing up..just being broken into smaller and smaller pieces..great stuff here, writer's block my ass
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I completely agree, This song is definitely not suffering from Eddie's "Writer's Block"
I also completely agree with the theme of the song being about mid-life crisis....
The intro for the song just has a quality about it, like driving down an urban highway at night time,..I know that is definitely a difficult quality to express with a guitar....
Life's become routine, everything is predictable and has lost it's pizzaz...
Perhaps it's about someone going through a midlife crisis and finding solace in isolation? or in sitting life out? and the regrets they have from the crisis is that they sat it all out... they didn't live,.. but here's where the meaning of the song gets kinda murky...
the line"any new realizations would, have to wait" obviously suggests he has made some kind of change or came to a realization, but the previous verse is very shrouded in obscurity, it's very vague as to what it is exactly he has realized...
"On a line of his own. Off the line of the side. Bye the by.
As dirt turned to sand. As if moved by sleight of hand."
^ Honestly, I am probably missing something very simple here, but what the hell does this verse mean? it obviously holds the "realization" but it doesn't reveal what it is to us...
The song really takes off after it hits the "More time" verse where the band kind of rocks out but slowly, more like pushing kinda... and Eddie closes the song out amazingly with the "I'll see you on the other side" line..
And the other side line suggests obviously that the person has changed or has begun to change, but to what we don't know....
This truly is a killer track, even if Binaural didn't sell many copies, I think this album is still better put together than alot of the half assed crap out there now...
Ok, nearly 7 years on I'm going to reply to your post !
with this: the line"any new realizations would, have to wait" obviously suggests he has made some kind of change or came to a realization, but the previous verse is very shrouded in obscurity, it's very vague as to what it is exactly he has realized...
Ok, nearly 7 years on I'm going to reply to your post !
with this: the line"any new realizations would, have to wait" obviously suggests he has made some kind of change or came to a realization, but the previous verse is very shrouded in obscurity, it's very vague as to what it is exactly he has realized...
I interpreted it as that the subject in the song keeps putting things off and that even though he has 'realizations' now and again, perhaps dreaming of things he wished he could do or wanted to do, he keeps saying that...
I interpreted it as that the subject in the song keeps putting things off and that even though he has 'realizations' now and again, perhaps dreaming of things he wished he could do or wanted to do, he keeps saying that he accomplish this 'realizations' at a later date. Think this goes along with the song in that at the end he just thinks fuck it, lets make the things i wanted to do and be happen now!
@N0 C0DE 79 To me the realization is that he is trapped in his life, hence "As dirt turned to sand". Dirt is firm, you can walk over it, but sand can get you caught in it. As if moved by sleight of hand.
@N0 C0DE 79 To me the realization is that he is trapped in his life, hence "As dirt turned to sand". Dirt is firm, you can walk over it, but sand can get you caught in it. As if moved by sleight of hand.
I dont think the person changes, more like.. tries to forget about it, 'til the next time he thinks about his situation, and sees himself again.
I dont think the person changes, more like.. tries to forget about it, 'til the next time he thinks about his situation, and sees himself again.
Its hard for me to listen to this song and enjoy it, it's really sad, but brilliant.
Its hard for me to listen to this song and enjoy it, it's really sad, but brilliant.
by Nasus on 06-01-2004 @ 04:14:57 AM
'Clip-on world' is a great phrase to sum up the idea of the entire song. Fake, pre-packaged..just handed to him. And 'dirt turned to sand'..what a way to describe growing up..just being broken into smaller and smaller pieces..great stuff here, writer's block my ass
................................................................................................... I completely agree, This song is definitely not suffering from Eddie's "Writer's Block"
I also completely agree with the theme of the song being about mid-life crisis....
The intro for the song just has a quality about it, like driving down an urban highway at night time,..I know that is definitely a difficult quality to express with a guitar....
Life's become routine, everything is predictable and has lost it's pizzaz...
Perhaps it's about someone going through a midlife crisis and finding solace in isolation? or in sitting life out? and the regrets they have from the crisis is that they sat it all out... they didn't live,.. but here's where the meaning of the song gets kinda murky...
the line"any new realizations would, have to wait" obviously suggests he has made some kind of change or came to a realization, but the previous verse is very shrouded in obscurity, it's very vague as to what it is exactly he has realized...
"On a line of his own. Off the line of the side. Bye the by. As dirt turned to sand. As if moved by sleight of hand." ^ Honestly, I am probably missing something very simple here, but what the hell does this verse mean? it obviously holds the "realization" but it doesn't reveal what it is to us...
The song really takes off after it hits the "More time" verse where the band kind of rocks out but slowly, more like pushing kinda... and Eddie closes the song out amazingly with the "I'll see you on the other side" line..
And the other side line suggests obviously that the person has changed or has begun to change, but to what we don't know....
This truly is a killer track, even if Binaural didn't sell many copies, I think this album is still better put together than alot of the half assed crap out there now...
Ok, nearly 7 years on I'm going to reply to your post ! with this: the line"any new realizations would, have to wait" obviously suggests he has made some kind of change or came to a realization, but the previous verse is very shrouded in obscurity, it's very vague as to what it is exactly he has realized...
Ok, nearly 7 years on I'm going to reply to your post ! with this: the line"any new realizations would, have to wait" obviously suggests he has made some kind of change or came to a realization, but the previous verse is very shrouded in obscurity, it's very vague as to what it is exactly he has realized...
I interpreted it as that the subject in the song keeps putting things off and that even though he has 'realizations' now and again, perhaps dreaming of things he wished he could do or wanted to do, he keeps saying that...
I interpreted it as that the subject in the song keeps putting things off and that even though he has 'realizations' now and again, perhaps dreaming of things he wished he could do or wanted to do, he keeps saying that he accomplish this 'realizations' at a later date. Think this goes along with the song in that at the end he just thinks fuck it, lets make the things i wanted to do and be happen now!
@N0 C0DE 79 To me the realization is that he is trapped in his life, hence "As dirt turned to sand". Dirt is firm, you can walk over it, but sand can get you caught in it. As if moved by sleight of hand.
@N0 C0DE 79 To me the realization is that he is trapped in his life, hence "As dirt turned to sand". Dirt is firm, you can walk over it, but sand can get you caught in it. As if moved by sleight of hand.
I dont think the person changes, more like.. tries to forget about it, 'til the next time he thinks about his situation, and sees himself again.
I dont think the person changes, more like.. tries to forget about it, 'til the next time he thinks about his situation, and sees himself again.
Its hard for me to listen to this song and enjoy it, it's really sad, but brilliant.
Its hard for me to listen to this song and enjoy it, it's really sad, but brilliant.