This could be one of my all time favorite bands. I've read some biograpical information on them, and the way they write their music is they write it the way it sounds good to them. So if it sounds good to you, guess what? You'll continue to get great music from this band.
This song . . . Wow. I love it first of all. It's typical goo goo dolls in sound and in lyrics. They tend to use sort of nebulous lyrics for many of their songs. It's sorta like lyrical Escher, but that's the point. Since several albums ago, their music has sort of focussed on the whole sense of being part of this "big machine" . . . As if we're all cogs in the wheel. Many of their songs touch lightly on the hoplessness that is being a part of that existence, but not really knowing any better. Their music is knowing better. It's transcendential of that condition. His reference to the "sting of corrosion" in this song seems to be an obvious reference to all of this, and sort of a nod to the previous work while simulteneously moving forward with a different direction, the idea that love and life are tied together, not the same, but difficult to define where one leaves off, and the other begins. Whereas in other albums the lyrics hit on the condition, this piece touches on the answers. The artist is asking "once you've transcended the oppression of the 'big machine' and you feel alive again, can you 'feel in love?'" It's tempting to think that the speaker in this song has transcended, but that's not really the case. The speaker knows that for that to happen, there first has to be love, so this is the struggle the song centers on.
Ot me this song and others from this band are a reminder that we can be in the "world" without being OF the "world." That if you live with "open arms and wide awake" you'll emerge from this place where "nothing's real and nothing lasts" and "everything shines but leaves me empty." It may be a bit ambitious, but maybe this band can tackle the concept of what "love" really is, and what it REALLY means to love someone (not just adore them). It's sort of out of their normal lore, but it's one of the great lies; that if you subscribe to them, love has been sorta confused with lust and adoration. It isn't that. It's a choice, much like what the speaker in this song is asking the other person to make.
Anyway, these are pretty raw thoughts, so I'm sure I probably missed somethings and got a few things incorrect, but I believe the gist is there.
This could be one of my all time favorite bands. I've read some biograpical information on them, and the way they write their music is they write it the way it sounds good to them. So if it sounds good to you, guess what? You'll continue to get great music from this band.
This song . . . Wow. I love it first of all. It's typical goo goo dolls in sound and in lyrics. They tend to use sort of nebulous lyrics for many of their songs. It's sorta like lyrical Escher, but that's the point. Since several albums ago, their music has sort of focussed on the whole sense of being part of this "big machine" . . . As if we're all cogs in the wheel. Many of their songs touch lightly on the hoplessness that is being a part of that existence, but not really knowing any better. Their music is knowing better. It's transcendential of that condition. His reference to the "sting of corrosion" in this song seems to be an obvious reference to all of this, and sort of a nod to the previous work while simulteneously moving forward with a different direction, the idea that love and life are tied together, not the same, but difficult to define where one leaves off, and the other begins. Whereas in other albums the lyrics hit on the condition, this piece touches on the answers. The artist is asking "once you've transcended the oppression of the 'big machine' and you feel alive again, can you 'feel in love?'" It's tempting to think that the speaker in this song has transcended, but that's not really the case. The speaker knows that for that to happen, there first has to be love, so this is the struggle the song centers on.
Ot me this song and others from this band are a reminder that we can be in the "world" without being OF the "world." That if you live with "open arms and wide awake" you'll emerge from this place where "nothing's real and nothing lasts" and "everything shines but leaves me empty." It may be a bit ambitious, but maybe this band can tackle the concept of what "love" really is, and what it REALLY means to love someone (not just adore them). It's sort of out of their normal lore, but it's one of the great lies; that if you subscribe to them, love has been sorta confused with lust and adoration. It isn't that. It's a choice, much like what the speaker in this song is asking the other person to make.
Anyway, these are pretty raw thoughts, so I'm sure I probably missed somethings and got a few things incorrect, but I believe the gist is there.