Lyric discussion by kbiz407 

Cover art for How Near How Far lyrics by ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

I believe this song is about the conditioned state of mind that most of us are brought up into and how it has really left us blind from true intelligence. We believe the answers or truth is engraved in history, stories, laws, and pictures, but if you begin to question the paths mankind has taken up to this point, it may not make sense. The answers are always there but yet we fail to achieve the silence beneath it all, and the love we need, to acknowledge the significance of merely being. When he says “my eyes mind” it may have to do with the existence his mind or ego in particular has created, which is based around thought and the illusion of time. We are struggling to find ourselves and even further, most of us are failing to try. As we continue to strive for the exact answers about how life should be lived, we are driving ourselves farther from the single flow of existence.

Anyway, opinions really aren’t that important… This song, I’m sure; can have a different effect and meaning to each and every one of us.