This song is quite possibly a masterpiece. It's absolutely brilliant and entirely left to the listener to decide it's dual meaning
Meaning 1- As this song is up to the listener's prerogative, this first time I listened to this I knew that it was about someone he knew that really always made him feel sorry for them, Depraved because that person was feeling left out and not cared for in there own warped sense. He leads on to saying "Are you depraved or are you deceived", in turn saying that deprivation is like being deceived one way or another- like they had been hurt before which led to deprivation. And in this meaning I quite took it literally about him saying "You're not a slave so get off your knees" meaning that so much other people could have worse than how you're doing right now. And through the chorus-like part it's almost like he doesn't know that person anymore.
Meaning 2- In the second prerogative of this song the meaning is quite literal if you knew the kind of humanitarian work Stephen does for his non-profit Faceless. Which spreads awareness on the hazards of human-trafficking of all kinds. So in this meaning it's describing someone he's met (most likely a refugee) who mistakes depravity for being deceived because it's happened to them for so long and the excuses which has kept them in containment. "Stop saying please" saying that they are so much better than whomever has deprived them and that they shouldn't be ashamed for the unreliable circumstances that they were dragged into. "Someone tell me your name" is literal because it's like Stephen asking this person's name who has gone nameless for so long.
The caps off the album so well- considering that it entirely is about struggle and the light that can shine from it. Utterly a magnum opus
This song is quite possibly a masterpiece. It's absolutely brilliant and entirely left to the listener to decide it's dual meaning
Meaning 1- As this song is up to the listener's prerogative, this first time I listened to this I knew that it was about someone he knew that really always made him feel sorry for them, Depraved because that person was feeling left out and not cared for in there own warped sense. He leads on to saying "Are you depraved or are you deceived", in turn saying that deprivation is like being deceived one way or another- like they had been hurt before which led to deprivation. And in this meaning I quite took it literally about him saying "You're not a slave so get off your knees" meaning that so much other people could have worse than how you're doing right now. And through the chorus-like part it's almost like he doesn't know that person anymore.
Meaning 2- In the second prerogative of this song the meaning is quite literal if you knew the kind of humanitarian work Stephen does for his non-profit Faceless. Which spreads awareness on the hazards of human-trafficking of all kinds. So in this meaning it's describing someone he's met (most likely a refugee) who mistakes depravity for being deceived because it's happened to them for so long and the excuses which has kept them in containment. "Stop saying please" saying that they are so much better than whomever has deprived them and that they shouldn't be ashamed for the unreliable circumstances that they were dragged into. "Someone tell me your name" is literal because it's like Stephen asking this person's name who has gone nameless for so long.
The caps off the album so well- considering that it entirely is about struggle and the light that can shine from it. Utterly a magnum opus
Which songs on this CD do you think are about God? Sometimes it's hard to tell
Which songs on this CD do you think are about God? Sometimes it's hard to tell
Your reply, Honeyed, is SO well written, except all of it rests upon your confusion of the word "depraved" with "deprived."
Your reply, Honeyed, is SO well written, except all of it rests upon your confusion of the word "depraved" with "deprived."
Depraved; marked by corruption or evil; deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good.
Depraved; marked by corruption or evil; deviating from what is considered moral or right or proper or good.
Deprived; marked by deprivation (lack of, withheld) especially of the necessities of life or of healthful environmental influences.
Deprived; marked by deprivation (lack of, withheld) especially of the necessities of life or of healthful environmental influences.
I'd like to see your reinterpretation with the actual wording, if you care to do it. I liked your first post well enough.
I'd like to see your reinterpretation with the actual wording, if you care to do it. I liked your first post well enough.