I think this song is way deeper than on face value. Take the first verse, "the pornography made me do it / So'd those drugs that got us high."
A lot of people like to blame things in the world for the way people are, in this case, why children are rebellious, and, to a lot of older people, troublemakers. In reality, they shouldn't be blaming things, like pornography and drugs, but themselves, as it's people that shape other people, especially younger people. As much as we like to deny it, we all have rolemodels that we try to be like, and the last people we think about as rolemodels is always ourselves.
Then there's the 2nd half of the verse, "So I walk you down into the water / But you keep up for air / All those people, they don't give a damn, they just stood around and stared."
I think this is a subtle nod toward the war in Iraq, and maybe war in general. We all get mad when our country goes to war, or "walks" us "down into the water", but we don't actually ever do anything, we just stand around and stare.
As we goes to the lead-in to the chorus, I think David is actually going "ha", as in, "see, I told you".
What he's telling us is only "love will save the day". Nothing else. Not religion; "Last night God was on the TV screen / Taking dollars for their pain", or science; "C'mon, talk about that evolution / It's been poisoning my mind". He's tired of people waiting for something else, an entity that might not even exsist, to save us from ourselves.
"I've been waiting for a savior / Yeah, I've been waiting for sign". I think this is said somewhat sarcastically. We've all been waiting so long for something else to come, but there's nothing so far. As an episode of "Futurama" once smartly said, the best thing you can do, as a God, is make people think you've done nothing at all. Faith in religion is such a tricky thing, and it's not a set-in-stone thing. Since that's the case, it's very suseptible to tampering to one's will, and we see it all the time.
The end is probably the most curious part to me, as I can take it to mean at least two things. It could, again, be a poke at those that say but never do. We all want "love to save the day", but we don't want to do it. We all think, well, "maybe tomorrow".
On the other hand, it could be him being hopeful. A thought that it hasn't happened yet, but "maybe tomorrow" it will.
A very deep and emotional song. Keep it up, David!
I think this song is way deeper than on face value. Take the first verse, "the pornography made me do it / So'd those drugs that got us high."
A lot of people like to blame things in the world for the way people are, in this case, why children are rebellious, and, to a lot of older people, troublemakers. In reality, they shouldn't be blaming things, like pornography and drugs, but themselves, as it's people that shape other people, especially younger people. As much as we like to deny it, we all have rolemodels that we try to be like, and the last people we think about as rolemodels is always ourselves.
Then there's the 2nd half of the verse, "So I walk you down into the water / But you keep up for air / All those people, they don't give a damn, they just stood around and stared."
I think this is a subtle nod toward the war in Iraq, and maybe war in general. We all get mad when our country goes to war, or "walks" us "down into the water", but we don't actually ever do anything, we just stand around and stare.
As we goes to the lead-in to the chorus, I think David is actually going "ha", as in, "see, I told you".
What he's telling us is only "love will save the day". Nothing else. Not religion; "Last night God was on the TV screen / Taking dollars for their pain", or science; "C'mon, talk about that evolution / It's been poisoning my mind". He's tired of people waiting for something else, an entity that might not even exsist, to save us from ourselves.
"I've been waiting for a savior / Yeah, I've been waiting for sign". I think this is said somewhat sarcastically. We've all been waiting so long for something else to come, but there's nothing so far. As an episode of "Futurama" once smartly said, the best thing you can do, as a God, is make people think you've done nothing at all. Faith in religion is such a tricky thing, and it's not a set-in-stone thing. Since that's the case, it's very suseptible to tampering to one's will, and we see it all the time.
The end is probably the most curious part to me, as I can take it to mean at least two things. It could, again, be a poke at those that say but never do. We all want "love to save the day", but we don't want to do it. We all think, well, "maybe tomorrow".
On the other hand, it could be him being hopeful. A thought that it hasn't happened yet, but "maybe tomorrow" it will.
A very deep and emotional song. Keep it up, David!