The Big Picture Lyrics

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Cover art for The Big Picture lyrics by Bright Eyes

this song is about how looking out through our own eyes at the world we can never see the truth, we keep thinking we can, we believe in things- religion, theories, - actually believe in them, although we'll never prove ourselves right. The world encourages us to make sense of the world, we keep thinking we have to. We think too much and are as such too intelligent for this planet, (but also not intelligent enough to be happy), and we suffer so much from our thinking,but really if we stopped thinking, we'd live and die anyway just like our grandfathers and our great great great grandfathers and everyone else in the history of the world. He finished to say he discovered the best thing to do is to do what's normal, because once you're dead no one cares if you spent hours awake scared of the thoughts in your head and so long unhappy. he says he's gonna go home to omaha, settle down, marry, have kids grow old and die, because he has found he cannot control his future, the world around him, anything. he is just a piece in the puzzle - his father's son, his son's father."Your position in line". The symbol of the fish at the end is to say that you can put off giving in to mortal life until your death, but the truth prevails and your gonna die, not reincarnate or go to heaven, just die. and thats the end of you.

they got it now robbie

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