1st yes,
i think this song means the theres no in praying and looking to god for help if we only interprept what we want and nothing else becuase who are we to judge these then it says that we all talk of resisting the norm or "living against the grain" but in reallity we all just want to be acceted so we just follow the crowd anyway and don't do anything different
You're so wrong. Tim Lambesis has a great connection with God, so I doubt he'd be writing nihilistic lyrics. a This song is about people who listen to what they want to listen to but disregard anything they don't agree with or is contrary to what they think. It's saying that no matter what is said, we will inevitably only obtain what we feel is most important or "the truth". When Tim says:
You're so wrong. Tim Lambesis has a great connection with God, so I doubt he'd be writing nihilistic lyrics. a This song is about people who listen to what they want to listen to but disregard anything they don't agree with or is contrary to what they think. It's saying that no matter what is said, we will inevitably only obtain what we feel is most important or "the truth". When Tim says:
"but what wisdom is there within us
to live based on the feeling of our hearts
how many times has instinct let us down
never to be thought...
"but what wisdom is there within us
to live based on the feeling of our hearts
how many times has instinct let us down
never to be thought through
never to be questioned
"
He is talking about how our heart may tell us something, but it's instinct that makes us fail in the end. Instead of using our mind to question and think through decisions or ideas, we rely on our heart. Something I got from this song was to think with your mind and not your heart. Popular culture always tells us to do the opposite, "Well what does your heart tell you?" This is a bad mindset IMO.
"say what you really mean
when your ambition calls you
for what use is there in praying
if you will only hear what you want to hear?"
I think Tim is now reverting the idea by calling out people who say things that people want to hear instead of saying what they really think,"When your ambition calls you". Tim then reasserts by asking what's the use of praying to God if you're only going to hear what you want and not hear what God has to say.
Example:
Trevor: God, I pray to you because there's someone that makes me mad and I wanna stab him in the chest.
Trevor: God spoke to me and said that I SHOULD stab him in the neck.
See, if Trevor would have read the bible, he would have realized God's true answer to his question, but this isn't a theological discussion.
Throughout this song, I believe Tim has a recurring message that we should speak our minds no matter what. I can relate to this song because I am constantly told by peers that I'm too opinionated. But if I told people what they wanted to hear instead of the honest truth, I would only be "blindly seeking truth from sentiments".
1st yes, i think this song means the theres no in praying and looking to god for help if we only interprept what we want and nothing else becuase who are we to judge these then it says that we all talk of resisting the norm or "living against the grain" but in reallity we all just want to be acceted so we just follow the crowd anyway and don't do anything different
You're so wrong. Tim Lambesis has a great connection with God, so I doubt he'd be writing nihilistic lyrics. a This song is about people who listen to what they want to listen to but disregard anything they don't agree with or is contrary to what they think. It's saying that no matter what is said, we will inevitably only obtain what we feel is most important or "the truth". When Tim says:
You're so wrong. Tim Lambesis has a great connection with God, so I doubt he'd be writing nihilistic lyrics. a This song is about people who listen to what they want to listen to but disregard anything they don't agree with or is contrary to what they think. It's saying that no matter what is said, we will inevitably only obtain what we feel is most important or "the truth". When Tim says:
"but what wisdom is there within us to live based on the feeling of our hearts how many times has instinct let us down never to be thought...
"but what wisdom is there within us to live based on the feeling of our hearts how many times has instinct let us down never to be thought through never to be questioned "
He is talking about how our heart may tell us something, but it's instinct that makes us fail in the end. Instead of using our mind to question and think through decisions or ideas, we rely on our heart. Something I got from this song was to think with your mind and not your heart. Popular culture always tells us to do the opposite, "Well what does your heart tell you?" This is a bad mindset IMO.
"say what you really mean when your ambition calls you for what use is there in praying if you will only hear what you want to hear?"
I think Tim is now reverting the idea by calling out people who say things that people want to hear instead of saying what they really think,"When your ambition calls you". Tim then reasserts by asking what's the use of praying to God if you're only going to hear what you want and not hear what God has to say.
Example:
Trevor: God, I pray to you because there's someone that makes me mad and I wanna stab him in the chest.
Trevor: God spoke to me and said that I SHOULD stab him in the neck.
See, if Trevor would have read the bible, he would have realized God's true answer to his question, but this isn't a theological discussion.
Throughout this song, I believe Tim has a recurring message that we should speak our minds no matter what. I can relate to this song because I am constantly told by peers that I'm too opinionated. But if I told people what they wanted to hear instead of the honest truth, I would only be "blindly seeking truth from sentiments".