"Some seek control
By grabbing hold of their lives
In a futile attempt
To help themselves survive"
Existentialism and a "carpe diem" sort of thinking may not be able to help everything, but I think they do a great deal to make you happier and allow you to live a fuller, healthier life. That has certainly been my experience, at least. So I'm not sure what is meant by that all being "a futile attempt". Existentialism can't stop fate from hurting you, but it usually help you recover from the hit.
"I dig myself
Into a much deeper hole
Running from a fate
That I can never control"
So I'm not sure what Damocles means, in saying the subject of the song is "torturing himself in self-doubt and existentialism", because it appears to me that the subject of the song does not live or think in existentialist terms. I may just have a poor understanding of existentialist philosophy, though. I've always related the way I think to existentialism, and my system provides for the world sometimes being an uncaring destroyer of people.
Cry of one who is trying to match his ideals with reality?
Cry of one who is trying to match his ideals with reality?
"The only way I know
To shake myself of this curse
Is to bring myself to something
That is measurably worse"
"The only way I know
To shake myself of this curse
Is to bring myself to something
That is measurably worse"
This line makes me believe Tom is speaking about ideals, thoughts and perspectives we hold too. As many of us find out through our lives, some of our ideals don't match well with the real world and often can leave us bitter and scarred. Yet, we often cling to them because view the alternative of astronomically worse.
This line makes me believe Tom is speaking about ideals, thoughts and perspectives we hold too. As many of us find out through our lives, some of our ideals don't match well with the real world and often can leave us bitter and scarred. Yet, we often cling to them because view the alternative of astronomically worse.
"Some seek control By grabbing hold of their lives In a futile attempt To help themselves survive"
Existentialism and a "carpe diem" sort of thinking may not be able to help everything, but I think they do a great deal to make you happier and allow you to live a fuller, healthier life. That has certainly been my experience, at least. So I'm not sure what is meant by that all being "a futile attempt". Existentialism can't stop fate from hurting you, but it usually help you recover from the hit.
"I dig myself Into a much deeper hole Running from a fate That I can never control"
So I'm not sure what Damocles means, in saying the subject of the song is "torturing himself in self-doubt and existentialism", because it appears to me that the subject of the song does not live or think in existentialist terms. I may just have a poor understanding of existentialist philosophy, though. I've always related the way I think to existentialism, and my system provides for the world sometimes being an uncaring destroyer of people.
Cry of one who is trying to match his ideals with reality?
Cry of one who is trying to match his ideals with reality?
"The only way I know To shake myself of this curse Is to bring myself to something That is measurably worse"
"The only way I know To shake myself of this curse Is to bring myself to something That is measurably worse"
This line makes me believe Tom is speaking about ideals, thoughts and perspectives we hold too. As many of us find out through our lives, some of our ideals don't match well with the real world and often can leave us bitter and scarred. Yet, we often cling to them because view the alternative of astronomically worse.
This line makes me believe Tom is speaking about ideals, thoughts and perspectives we hold too. As many of us find out through our lives, some of our ideals don't match well with the real world and often can leave us bitter and scarred. Yet, we often cling to them because view the alternative of astronomically worse.