Truth, goodness and beauty: the three cursed pursuits of humanity.
The song begins with the protagonist in the depths of existential despair.. . he cries about his imperfect and feeble existence being lost and alone in empty space.
Then at the 43 second mark, it hits him--he awakens to reach a state of zen-like enlightenment and realises the true nature of reality: that all of existence is the manifestation of beauty as it blooms and echoes and fills all spaces in between.
This is a take-off of the bloodflowers album concept, about how life is transient like flowers, but life in motion, fully experienced whether in sadness or elation is what makes for all things beautiful, like life sprouting from the dirt erupting and then flowering then withering and then (but not finally) collapsing and dissolving back into the dirt. there is no intermediary stage in the transitions in life that aren't beautiful unless you've stopped paying attention, or have only eyes to the dirt while the garden before you lives breathes and explodes in a sort of slow-motion dance of variety and vibrance.
At the 43 second mark, the empty spaces burst as they fill with music blooming. Everything builds and bursts outward and spreads like ripples in a pond, or echoes through space to your infinitely sensitive ears.
listen to the brilliantly innovative use of the drums to achieve the effect of chi-like energy flowing imperceptible until it condenses for a moment into rippling vibration and then dissolves back into the canvas of ever-flowing imperceptible energy again.
In the second verse tries to explain what he sees to the sad girl with the words "so look! And you wont see it... Listen and you wont hear it... reach out, and you wont hold it, you can't know it... but you can free it, you can't name it, but you can be it.... "
Try to understand the world simply through the five senses and you'll see an incomplete and imperfect vision.
Like the zen adage that I'll paraphrase with: I point at the moon, and you stare at my finger."
To stare at the dirt and see death not life.
He further emphasises it in the closing lines: "hoping for a girl LIKE you... no not "LIKE" you... YOU!
Because with YOU he is not describing the lifeless noun as approximated by the 5 senses but the ever evolving and experiencing YOU the verb, the BE-ing like god, infinitely indescribable and impossible to capture.
It's pretty heavy stuff... But give it time to sink it. think of how the classical flight of the bumble actually sounds like the flight of a bumble bee and you'll get what the cure are all about.
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Truth, goodness and beauty: the three cursed pursuits of humanity.
The song begins with the protagonist in the depths of existential despair.. . he cries about his imperfect and feeble existence being lost and alone in empty space.
Then at the 43 second mark, it hits him--he awakens to reach a state of zen-like enlightenment and realises the true nature of reality: that all of existence is the manifestation of beauty as it blooms and echoes and fills all spaces in between.
This is a take-off of the bloodflowers album concept, about how life is transient like flowers, but life in motion, fully experienced whether in sadness or elation is what makes for all things beautiful, like life sprouting from the dirt erupting and then flowering then withering and then (but not finally) collapsing and dissolving back into the dirt. there is no intermediary stage in the transitions in life that aren't beautiful unless you've stopped paying attention, or have only eyes to the dirt while the garden before you lives breathes and explodes in a sort of slow-motion dance of variety and vibrance.
At the 43 second mark, the empty spaces burst as they fill with music blooming. Everything builds and bursts outward and spreads like ripples in a pond, or echoes through space to your infinitely sensitive ears.
listen to the brilliantly innovative use of the drums to achieve the effect of chi-like energy flowing imperceptible until it condenses for a moment into rippling vibration and then dissolves back into the canvas of ever-flowing imperceptible energy again.
In the second verse tries to explain what he sees to the sad girl with the words "so look! And you wont see it... Listen and you wont hear it... reach out, and you wont hold it, you can't know it... but you can free it, you can't name it, but you can be it.... "
Try to understand the world simply through the five senses and you'll see an incomplete and imperfect vision.
Like the zen adage that I'll paraphrase with: I point at the moon, and you stare at my finger."
To stare at the dirt and see death not life.
He further emphasises it in the closing lines: "hoping for a girl LIKE you... no not "LIKE" you... YOU!
Because with YOU he is not describing the lifeless noun as approximated by the 5 senses but the ever evolving and experiencing YOU the verb, the BE-ing like god, infinitely indescribable and impossible to capture.
It's pretty heavy stuff... But give it time to sink it. think of how the classical flight of the bumble actually sounds like the flight of a bumble bee and you'll get what the cure are all about.