This song is POWERFUL. Again, I love the objective analysis, but I always have to slip into what it DOES to me to listen to it. If you don't mind...
Yeah, one hundred percent in agreement (sadly) with the analysis here of rejecting the throne of undue awesomeness, ok. But man, if nothing else this is a testament to the power of their music, and perhaps of something lurking in all human souls who picked up on their power and read "too much" into it... indeed perhaps they read too LITTLE into THEMSELVES...
But on to the awesomeness of this song...
It has an action oriented pace, from the "traveling" to the fleeting visions of so many faces he could never know, each pressed between the forces of their lives' necessities and the needs of the human spirit. This puts one in a state of bewilderment as one is spun around our world (as a world traveler myself, and possible worlds traveler, I get a good sense that this is actually what it feels like as you look back over the years of traveling, and also even as you look around you in the present moment during your travels).
In this whirlwind of experience and semi-connectedness with people only the stronger spiritual themes are able to emerge. These allow you to sense deeper meanings in everything which is formerly concrete, but now also symbolic. You feel the meanings behind the "words" of daily life, which are now not just sights and sounds, but IMAGES. Your roads are not merely pathways, but ways to many lives in one life. You take them where you go with them rather than they taking you.
In the midst of all the tradgedy and fear of the world, there is a powerful centrum of spirtual energy which commands a greater power than that fear and misery. It is in the soul which projects its own power INTO the music, and not in the music itself, and certainly not in the Rock and Rollers, who just make the music. All this seems to make my subjective interpretation tie in with the conventional and correct objective interpretation nicely for me, so I don't have to "come down to earth" too much and acknowledge the merely humanness of these Gods!! :D
Then again, I know that they know that it is only the Muse, and this a messenger from The Good (perhaps with some distortions as it reaches the human ego), and that this is not to be worshipped instead of the truth in one's own soul.
This song is POWERFUL. Again, I love the objective analysis, but I always have to slip into what it DOES to me to listen to it. If you don't mind...
Yeah, one hundred percent in agreement (sadly) with the analysis here of rejecting the throne of undue awesomeness, ok. But man, if nothing else this is a testament to the power of their music, and perhaps of something lurking in all human souls who picked up on their power and read "too much" into it... indeed perhaps they read too LITTLE into THEMSELVES...
But on to the awesomeness of this song...
It has an action oriented pace, from the "traveling" to the fleeting visions of so many faces he could never know, each pressed between the forces of their lives' necessities and the needs of the human spirit. This puts one in a state of bewilderment as one is spun around our world (as a world traveler myself, and possible worlds traveler, I get a good sense that this is actually what it feels like as you look back over the years of traveling, and also even as you look around you in the present moment during your travels).
In this whirlwind of experience and semi-connectedness with people only the stronger spiritual themes are able to emerge. These allow you to sense deeper meanings in everything which is formerly concrete, but now also symbolic. You feel the meanings behind the "words" of daily life, which are now not just sights and sounds, but IMAGES. Your roads are not merely pathways, but ways to many lives in one life. You take them where you go with them rather than they taking you.
In the midst of all the tradgedy and fear of the world, there is a powerful centrum of spirtual energy which commands a greater power than that fear and misery. It is in the soul which projects its own power INTO the music, and not in the music itself, and certainly not in the Rock and Rollers, who just make the music. All this seems to make my subjective interpretation tie in with the conventional and correct objective interpretation nicely for me, so I don't have to "come down to earth" too much and acknowledge the merely humanness of these Gods!! :D
Then again, I know that they know that it is only the Muse, and this a messenger from The Good (perhaps with some distortions as it reaches the human ego), and that this is not to be worshipped instead of the truth in one's own soul.
@Wenaolong Not bad!
@Wenaolong Not bad!