Neverending Math Equation Lyrics

Lyric discussion by Robindr 

Cover art for Neverending Math Equation lyrics by Sun Kil Moon

I think at the age of 6 we are all very selfish and alone in the sense that we want what we want and want to get our way. So that mentality doesnt really change, the only way we know how others feel are what they show us.

When he is up on the plane he is looking at the world and seeing all those lights and it kind of goes to show you how many people there are out there. How do we all connect>? We are really alone in this world. This doesnt change no matter how old we are. With all of this we have created in life, machines and lights and stuff, we have even farther disconnected ourselves to reality, to that equation that connects us to the nature and each other. The plants and the animals have a purpose, and he is questioning our purpose and pondering it through loneliness.

Maybe his dad just died? and there is a certain aloneness when someone close to you dies and a kind of questioning period of what is the meaning of life is if we are going to just die anyways.

I think the line, "I'm the same as I was when I was six years old" sums up the whole song. I think that this means that even though you grow up and gain all this responsibility as you mature into adulthood, you don't necessarily feel like an adult. You still feel like your six years old. Also, looking back on your younger years, you realize you're old because you know you can never have those childhood years back.

to 'controlfreak' definitely, yeah you change, you literally aren't the same you are as when you are six. But you are the same being, everything changes, but you were that person, you know that person, you are so profoundly different from that 6 year old kid, but still, you evolved from that person, you came from that person, you are grown up -- when did that happen? -- and if you stripped everything away, you'd be that kid again.