Basically conclusion the narrator comes to is existential, even Nieschean ‘Thus spake … etc’. And so if that’s the case you might as well ‘go to the concert, run off with a dancer’ because all you have got and the most you can be is ‘to be’, and that is the same for everyone. There’s also a line in there about ‘when the promise breaks’, and this is an intra-textual reference to most of the content of the album. Ie religion, alternative views of reality, science fiction etc offer promises that tempt you to think you can escape from the never ending cycle of life. But it is false hope. Then again hope can and must exist because by connecting hope to ‘being’ you can really truly make the most of life by choosing ‘to be’
For eg, compare the first song with the last song. First song, an alternative reality powers you up to escape, be a star, lion of Judah on your motorbike, roar etc. Last song, by ‘being’ you can see a star born ….
Basically conclusion the narrator comes to is existential, even Nieschean ‘Thus spake … etc’. And so if that’s the case you might as well ‘go to the concert, run off with a dancer’ because all you have got and the most you can be is ‘to be’, and that is the same for everyone. There’s also a line in there about ‘when the promise breaks’, and this is an intra-textual reference to most of the content of the album. Ie religion, alternative views of reality, science fiction etc offer promises that tempt you to think you can escape from the never ending cycle of life. But it is false hope. Then again hope can and must exist because by connecting hope to ‘being’ you can really truly make the most of life by choosing ‘to be’
For eg, compare the first song with the last song. First song, an alternative reality powers you up to escape, be a star, lion of Judah on your motorbike, roar etc. Last song, by ‘being’ you can see a star born ….
I meant second to last song* which is this one coincedentally.
I meant second to last song* which is this one coincedentally.