Under The Surface Lyrics

Lyric discussion by MarlonMorais 

Cover art for Under The Surface lyrics by Neurosis

This is one of my favorite songs by them, if not my favorite.

It's about how... if you are a person who is very aware of your surroundings, an intelligent person, a "great mind", you will suffer and be confused while your alive for seeying what path the world around you has chosen to take. Destruction, chaos, war.

The last two verses are about humility. I live my life in "peace", and i will die. But you live yours in war and you will, of course, die as well. We are going to the same place, but some are being judged for bad, and some for good.

That makes sense, next song "The last you'll know" Is about that judgement. "He is the last we'll know, mercy for you(...)All our crimes trial waits everyone(...)To guide us through terminus..." If you take these songs individual, I mean non conceptual, it's much more harder to interpet it.