This song is not so bleak or literal as to mean that life is meaningless and the same. Rather, it is a comment on misplaced values in society, and the general public apathy seen in western culture.
This is where the synagogue line comes in- tradegies should shock us more than they do, and society should ascribe more value to such events. Similar is the line about american businessmen buying van goughs for the price of hospital wings- you have to question a society where people can spend so much money on something so trivial, when so many people in the world suffer and die.
No, this is not a look at the bleakness of life, but a call to awake from the apathetic circularity of modern life. Rather than allowing each day the be the same, this song hopes that we can make a difference each day, and thus make each day different.
This song is not so bleak or literal as to mean that life is meaningless and the same. Rather, it is a comment on misplaced values in society, and the general public apathy seen in western culture.
This is where the synagogue line comes in- tradegies should shock us more than they do, and society should ascribe more value to such events. Similar is the line about american businessmen buying van goughs for the price of hospital wings- you have to question a society where people can spend so much money on something so trivial, when so many people in the world suffer and die.
No, this is not a look at the bleakness of life, but a call to awake from the apathetic circularity of modern life. Rather than allowing each day the be the same, this song hopes that we can make a difference each day, and thus make each day different.