Love Is The Answer

This is by NO means a Christian song. This song's concept goes WAY beyond religion. This song is a call to the world to open its eyes and look inside.

There is no easy way around it. Pride, religion, power; none of it will buy the world the peace, hence, no easy way around it, and it's a call to the warmongers, the ignorant, and the power-hungry who supposedly run the world to look past their own power struggles and warped perspective, so that they need not be afraid to have a human conscience, and see that it's the only way that they can make the world right.

If one attempts to shove one’s beliefs down another’s throat, it merely becomes an expectorant, possibly a catalyst for war. This doesn’t just apply to Christianity. It’s everywhere.

The "homeless and never heard" stanza is aimed at those of a younger generation who are ignored by the supposed "grown-ups" that run everything according to their warped standards for the rest of the world around them. The loneliness is not born of a possible absence of Christ in someone, because this applies to everyone. This stanza tells these brave souls not to give up, and that there is still another chance for the world to hear a cry for help from humanity before it’s too late. It states that it is "worth just another try" to attempt to open people's eyes to unconditional love BEYOND RELIGION, which just so happens to be the reason behind most of the hatred and conflict in this world.

The "man in your heart" is nothing more and nothing less than one's own conscience, the voice that tells you to love unconditionally. If the world wants to heal itself and end its conflicts, one worldwide cease-fire can be enough to end war if we can just look inside and ask ourselves if we're doing the right thing all in all, if we’re wronging anyone, and if we are doing what we can do to love each other.

Religion is not the only way people can love one another. I AM BY NO MEANS DENOUNCING CHRIST. I am stating that this concept goes beyond religion. Atheists can love. Muslims can love. Hindus, Christians, Jews, Agnostics, and all other creeds and races have the capacity to love as human beings. This song is about loving each other out of general human principle, not because some book tells us to do it. This song asks people to look past whatever possible personal battles or power struggles they have, be it for power, politics, petty differences, or religion, and just love everyone for being human, just the same as they are. People had consciences before Jesus was even born, and if we can just use them in the name of unconditional love, religious differences or homogenizing religion won’t even be a concern.

Nobody "missed" anything in these lyrics. This is a call to the people of the world to actually look inside their hearts and use them. The overall message is right in front of our eyes, whether or not there’s a Book in front of them. The song’s message, as well as the album’s message, is stated at the end of the liner notes of the album "Oops! Wrong Planet":

"Use your heads, use your hearts, save yourselves."

The message is clearer than WORDS ON PAPER.

Peace. --K.S.

P.S. The cover to Second Wind in itself is a sign to cast religion and whatever petty differences one has aside, and going along with the album’s lyrics, WAKE UP.