For anyone who's interested, I have a little more information/meaing about this song. I have the original '98 vinyl that this song was on, and it comes with a huge poster of lyrics, drawings, sketches and words relating to the songs on the album. For Postlapsaria the lyrics portion is just what's written already here (the very end of the song) but next to those lyrics are the following:
A sketch of an apple with an arrow pointing to it saying:
knowledge
experience
there are two holes in the apple, through which a curving line of text says "oh, it's starry eyes for empty skies i tell you..."
above the apple it says:
"postlapsaria = a transcendalist paradigm"
(note: transcendalists, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Thoreau, are people who, according to wikipedia, believe in "an ideal spiritual state that 'transcends' the physical and empirical and is only realized through the individual's intuition, rather than through the doctrines of established religions.")
(2nd note: a "paradigm" is a group of ideas, beliefs, concepts or practices that establish a certain way of viewing the world/reality. basically, an example or archetype on which other ideas, concepts and actions are based.)
also above the apple is a drawing of what looks like half of an orb, with swirly curving lines surrounding it (possibly representing the lyrics 'I am the horizon,
I have dreamed of tracing rings around this world'...?)
next to a line pointing to the orb is the word "wisdom" above a horizontal line, and under the line is the word "us" with a minus sign before it and a period after it, so that it looks like:
wisdom
-us.
above the apple and the orb is a line of text that says "North America c. 1850's"
below the apple, the orb and the lyrics themselves is a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson that states,
"...for nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today."
so, with all that being said, does anybody have any more of an idea what the meaning of this song is actually about?
For anyone who's interested, I have a little more information/meaing about this song. I have the original '98 vinyl that this song was on, and it comes with a huge poster of lyrics, drawings, sketches and words relating to the songs on the album. For Postlapsaria the lyrics portion is just what's written already here (the very end of the song) but next to those lyrics are the following:
A sketch of an apple with an arrow pointing to it saying:
knowledge
experience
there are two holes in the apple, through which a curving line of text says "oh, it's starry eyes for empty skies i tell you..."
above the apple it says: "postlapsaria = a transcendalist paradigm" (note: transcendalists, such as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry Thoreau, are people who, according to wikipedia, believe in "an ideal spiritual state that 'transcends' the physical and empirical and is only realized through the individual's intuition, rather than through the doctrines of established religions.") (2nd note: a "paradigm" is a group of ideas, beliefs, concepts or practices that establish a certain way of viewing the world/reality. basically, an example or archetype on which other ideas, concepts and actions are based.)
also above the apple is a drawing of what looks like half of an orb, with swirly curving lines surrounding it (possibly representing the lyrics 'I am the horizon, I have dreamed of tracing rings around this world'...?) next to a line pointing to the orb is the word "wisdom" above a horizontal line, and under the line is the word "us" with a minus sign before it and a period after it, so that it looks like:
wisdom
-us.
above the apple and the orb is a line of text that says "North America c. 1850's"
below the apple, the orb and the lyrics themselves is a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson that states, "...for nature is not always tricked in holiday attire, but the same scene which yesterday breathed perfume and glittered as for the frolic of the nymphs, is overspread with melancholy today."
so, with all that being said, does anybody have any more of an idea what the meaning of this song is actually about?