This song has a Buddhist quality to it. You could almost think of the song as someone conversing with his or her own pure Spirit. Some traditions will call it an angel, some will call it the singer's own Buddha-nature.
The singer is lucidly dreaming about trying to fall away, laying outstretched. Trying to find God in the sand. You get the impression that the singer is hurting, seeking closure, and close, but unable to find it. Very elusive.
The angel delivers crushing but liberating advice: You are married to your pain. Your pain is the rope tethering you to where you are.
This just adds to the pain of the singer. If you look at it from a certain perspective, the entire Earth cries. The path of evolution for just about every creature and species has been unquestionably brutal and full of saddness.
The angel isn't about to get caught up in a discussion about which pain to face first. "My back is turned".
And finally: in the end, aren't all of our discomforts already crystal clear? Perhaps the problem is that we don't actually want to find them, we just want to wallow in our pain.
This song has a Buddhist quality to it. You could almost think of the song as someone conversing with his or her own pure Spirit. Some traditions will call it an angel, some will call it the singer's own Buddha-nature.
The singer is lucidly dreaming about trying to fall away, laying outstretched. Trying to find God in the sand. You get the impression that the singer is hurting, seeking closure, and close, but unable to find it. Very elusive.
The angel delivers crushing but liberating advice: You are married to your pain. Your pain is the rope tethering you to where you are.
This just adds to the pain of the singer. If you look at it from a certain perspective, the entire Earth cries. The path of evolution for just about every creature and species has been unquestionably brutal and full of saddness.
The angel isn't about to get caught up in a discussion about which pain to face first. "My back is turned".
And finally: in the end, aren't all of our discomforts already crystal clear? Perhaps the problem is that we don't actually want to find them, we just want to wallow in our pain.