This song comes before GET OUT OF MY HOUSE, when 'My door was never locked'. The title, LEAVE IT OPEN, is like an invitation “For Madmen Only.” The song tackles the lessons of experience; how curiosity and exposure define who we become; about self-awareness, corruptibility and the loss of innocence; and about how mental stability depends on the vigilance of the 'concierge chez-moi' (à la GOoMH).
'Narrow mind would persecute it,/(Die a little to get to it.)' is as cunning as the Devil himself! ... Indeed, the song evokes the shameful Biblical 'fall of man' ... We are cursed to 'let the weirdness in' ...
"...Up to this point Adam and Eve have not sinned, they did not know what evil was. But when they touch the tree of the knowledge of good and evil their eyes shall be opened and they shall know what evil is. At that point, they have sinned..."
The song is daring, tempting and menacing (like Satan in The Garden of Eden). We come to 'realise' that evil is inherent in human nature. To see/hear/speak no evil is to become deluded and dysfunctional. By nature and experience, we each have threatening, spiteful and iniquitous tendencies, and must therefore learn to arm our intellect with autonomy, foresight and moderation... To LEAVE IT OPEN, to want to experience everything, is equally dysfunctional. Hence the intoxicated, addicted and distressed state of the song's close... We can't have it all!
This song comes before GET OUT OF MY HOUSE, when 'My door was never locked'. The title, LEAVE IT OPEN, is like an invitation “For Madmen Only.” The song tackles the lessons of experience; how curiosity and exposure define who we become; about self-awareness, corruptibility and the loss of innocence; and about how mental stability depends on the vigilance of the 'concierge chez-moi' (à la GOoMH).
'Narrow mind would persecute it,/(Die a little to get to it.)' is as cunning as the Devil himself! ... Indeed, the song evokes the shameful Biblical 'fall of man' ... We are cursed to 'let the weirdness in' ...
"...Up to this point Adam and Eve have not sinned, they did not know what evil was. But when they touch the tree of the knowledge of good and evil their eyes shall be opened and they shall know what evil is. At that point, they have sinned..."
The song is daring, tempting and menacing (like Satan in The Garden of Eden). We come to 'realise' that evil is inherent in human nature. To see/hear/speak no evil is to become deluded and dysfunctional. By nature and experience, we each have threatening, spiteful and iniquitous tendencies, and must therefore learn to arm our intellect with autonomy, foresight and moderation... To LEAVE IT OPEN, to want to experience everything, is equally dysfunctional. Hence the intoxicated, addicted and distressed state of the song's close... We can't have it all!