No, it feels just right at the album-version length, or even like it could go on longer without wearing thin. As for the lyric, some of his most powerful words. When he says things, they resonate.
Most versions I've seen say "I'm Agnostic/Getting God/But man, she takes a female form". To me that's the only confusing part of the lyric. How is he agnostic or Getting God, and then able to declare that there's nothing at all; that we're out here on our own (in the next line)?
So apart from the muddled religious references, a classic humanist lyric.
@terribleyouth 15 years late, but I was listening to this after a long time, and had the same thought, until the follow occurred to me:
@terribleyouth 15 years late, but I was listening to this after a long time, and had the same thought, until the follow occurred to me:
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"I'm Agnostic/Getting God" may mean he simply seeks the truth, whether that involves there being a God or not
"But man, she takes a female form" may mean he thinks we as a species make that search impossible, because we continue to painting such a being with the values and forms that appeal to us
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"I'm Agnostic/Getting God" may mean he simply seeks the truth, whether that involves there being a God or not
"But man, she takes a female form" may mean he thinks we as a species make that search impossible, because we continue to painting such a being with the values and forms that appeal to us
No, it feels just right at the album-version length, or even like it could go on longer without wearing thin. As for the lyric, some of his most powerful words. When he says things, they resonate. Most versions I've seen say "I'm Agnostic/Getting God/But man, she takes a female form". To me that's the only confusing part of the lyric. How is he agnostic or Getting God, and then able to declare that there's nothing at all; that we're out here on our own (in the next line)? So apart from the muddled religious references, a classic humanist lyric.
@terribleyouth 15 years late, but I was listening to this after a long time, and had the same thought, until the follow occurred to me:
@terribleyouth 15 years late, but I was listening to this after a long time, and had the same thought, until the follow occurred to me:
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