Really hard for me to explain, so bare with me:
In terms of depression, it could refer to life feeling like an empty, black sky with nothing really worthwhile in it. The stars are like the friends and family who help you through it all, and just anything that helps keep you going. But there aren't even any stars out in this person's world. It's just pitch black, without even starshine to light his way - he can't find his way out, and no one can find or help him. He just feels way too deep into it to think he there's a hope of making it out.
With the 'jumping up' line, that could also be a failed attempt to get out of this depression, but only ends up showing him how low, alone and insignificant he is.
I'm not sure about the line "stand easy with my self, with myself" though. Maybe something about how it's easier to be by himself than actually being with someone else? Or him not admitting he needs help, trying and failing to help himself. I really don't know, just pulling that out of the air, lol.
I think the simple, rambling nature of the song also shows how numb, overwhelmed and emotionally exhausted this person is, it's like they can barely even function anymore. Like when you're so overwhelmed with an emotion you're practically speechless.
I feel like a bit of a wanker writing all this about a song that's like 7 lines long, but oh well, lol.
It's a bloody good song. Haunting.
@violent_midget I see it in a similar way. I felt it from the first moment I heard it in the documentary "bananaz".
At first, vaguely, I thought of the past, one not so distant for me, adolescence. People who come and go from our lives, the banality of the moments lived, everything seemed to matter so little. Time passed, burning every moment of the present, almost like a cut to these days.
Then, after thinking more about it, I began to relate it to my existential problems that I've carried since that time. I always thought, that a solution would emerge eventually....
@violent_midget I see it in a similar way. I felt it from the first moment I heard it in the documentary "bananaz".
At first, vaguely, I thought of the past, one not so distant for me, adolescence. People who come and go from our lives, the banality of the moments lived, everything seemed to matter so little. Time passed, burning every moment of the present, almost like a cut to these days.
Then, after thinking more about it, I began to relate it to my existential problems that I've carried since that time. I always thought, that a solution would emerge eventually. That a path was simply going to emerge and I'd just have to take it.
"Starshine", the stars we all rise to see, I interpret it as the hope that this light will guide my path, that it will help me find reasons.
"Never gonna find me", time passed, this light seems to never come. And I begin to accept, that it will never find me. Because I learned that these kinds of answers don't work with me, they don't alleviate my existential conflict.
It leaves me no choice but to assume this absurdity. Assume it, but not let myself be consumed by it, because although this absurdity surrounds the whole damned existence, I know with all certainty that I have myself in this chaos, and I intend to cling to that security, to cling to my own hope. "Stand easy with myself, oh myself", "Jumping up and low low low", and it's not about looking ahead and thinking positive. It's about recognizing these miseries, learning to live with them, to cling to what really matters to us.
Really hard for me to explain, so bare with me: In terms of depression, it could refer to life feeling like an empty, black sky with nothing really worthwhile in it. The stars are like the friends and family who help you through it all, and just anything that helps keep you going. But there aren't even any stars out in this person's world. It's just pitch black, without even starshine to light his way - he can't find his way out, and no one can find or help him. He just feels way too deep into it to think he there's a hope of making it out. With the 'jumping up' line, that could also be a failed attempt to get out of this depression, but only ends up showing him how low, alone and insignificant he is. I'm not sure about the line "stand easy with my self, with myself" though. Maybe something about how it's easier to be by himself than actually being with someone else? Or him not admitting he needs help, trying and failing to help himself. I really don't know, just pulling that out of the air, lol. I think the simple, rambling nature of the song also shows how numb, overwhelmed and emotionally exhausted this person is, it's like they can barely even function anymore. Like when you're so overwhelmed with an emotion you're practically speechless.
I feel like a bit of a wanker writing all this about a song that's like 7 lines long, but oh well, lol. It's a bloody good song. Haunting.
@violent_midget I think the mood of the song tends to give credence to such an interpretation ... is very eerie!
@violent_midget I think the mood of the song tends to give credence to such an interpretation ... is very eerie!
@violent_midget I see it in a similar way. I felt it from the first moment I heard it in the documentary "bananaz". At first, vaguely, I thought of the past, one not so distant for me, adolescence. People who come and go from our lives, the banality of the moments lived, everything seemed to matter so little. Time passed, burning every moment of the present, almost like a cut to these days. Then, after thinking more about it, I began to relate it to my existential problems that I've carried since that time. I always thought, that a solution would emerge eventually....
@violent_midget I see it in a similar way. I felt it from the first moment I heard it in the documentary "bananaz". At first, vaguely, I thought of the past, one not so distant for me, adolescence. People who come and go from our lives, the banality of the moments lived, everything seemed to matter so little. Time passed, burning every moment of the present, almost like a cut to these days. Then, after thinking more about it, I began to relate it to my existential problems that I've carried since that time. I always thought, that a solution would emerge eventually. That a path was simply going to emerge and I'd just have to take it. "Starshine", the stars we all rise to see, I interpret it as the hope that this light will guide my path, that it will help me find reasons. "Never gonna find me", time passed, this light seems to never come. And I begin to accept, that it will never find me. Because I learned that these kinds of answers don't work with me, they don't alleviate my existential conflict. It leaves me no choice but to assume this absurdity. Assume it, but not let myself be consumed by it, because although this absurdity surrounds the whole damned existence, I know with all certainty that I have myself in this chaos, and I intend to cling to that security, to cling to my own hope. "Stand easy with myself, oh myself", "Jumping up and low low low", and it's not about looking ahead and thinking positive. It's about recognizing these miseries, learning to live with them, to cling to what really matters to us.