I have very little idea what this song is about, but I'll take a stab at it anyway.
I think Homme is trying to say that you have to sometimes let stubborn people be stubborn. You can't waste your time constantly preaching to someone or trying to make them see things your way. In the end, it's like talking to the deaf. I especially sense this message in the chorus. He's speaking as someone who understands himself and the world, and doesn't care about other people's perceptions ("Broken reflection...nobody ever needed it").
I also believe that he's comparing deafness to blindness in the "blind can go get fucked" verse, with the latter being a metaphor for ignorance. It's one thing to acknowledge a circumstance, and not allow it to change your views or ideals. It's another thing to be in denial. Stubborness and ignorance are not one and the same, in his eyes.
This is how I always took the song, as well. Clearly he sees music as an art-form and a complex way musicians have been voicing that art for centuries. It isn't his fault some can't understand the message. They are stubborn, and you can't fix that. Best to just let them be stubborn and none-the-wiser.
This is how I always took the song, as well. Clearly he sees music as an art-form and a complex way musicians have been voicing that art for centuries. It isn't his fault some can't understand the message. They are stubborn, and you can't fix that. Best to just let them be stubborn and none-the-wiser.
Clearly stubborn and ignorant are two different things. Ignorance does not necessarily lead to stubbornness, but stubbornness generally always leads to ignorance.
Clearly stubborn and ignorant are two different things. Ignorance does not necessarily lead to stubbornness, but stubbornness generally always leads to ignorance.
I have very little idea what this song is about, but I'll take a stab at it anyway.
I think Homme is trying to say that you have to sometimes let stubborn people be stubborn. You can't waste your time constantly preaching to someone or trying to make them see things your way. In the end, it's like talking to the deaf. I especially sense this message in the chorus. He's speaking as someone who understands himself and the world, and doesn't care about other people's perceptions ("Broken reflection...nobody ever needed it").
I also believe that he's comparing deafness to blindness in the "blind can go get fucked" verse, with the latter being a metaphor for ignorance. It's one thing to acknowledge a circumstance, and not allow it to change your views or ideals. It's another thing to be in denial. Stubborness and ignorance are not one and the same, in his eyes.
This is how I always took the song, as well. Clearly he sees music as an art-form and a complex way musicians have been voicing that art for centuries. It isn't his fault some can't understand the message. They are stubborn, and you can't fix that. Best to just let them be stubborn and none-the-wiser.
This is how I always took the song, as well. Clearly he sees music as an art-form and a complex way musicians have been voicing that art for centuries. It isn't his fault some can't understand the message. They are stubborn, and you can't fix that. Best to just let them be stubborn and none-the-wiser.
Clearly stubborn and ignorant are two different things. Ignorance does not necessarily lead to stubbornness, but stubbornness generally always leads to ignorance.
Clearly stubborn and ignorant are two different things. Ignorance does not necessarily lead to stubbornness, but stubbornness generally always leads to ignorance.