There's no eye in the sky (God)
Just our love
No unobstructed view (Our "limited" understanding of reality that many theists claim)
No perfect truths (No absolute Truth. Things are what you make of it)
Just our love
Just our love
And there's no verse
No monument of words (Bible)
For our love
For they can't hold
All I know about my love, about my love
(Love is a lot more than just following rules and worshiping a god. Love is about acting the best you can to people. Love is about forgiving. Love is not something that can even be captivated in a book for that would ruin the essence of love, for love is an experience. You can learn about love, but learning about love is like learning about skydiving: it just doesn't compare to the experience. The narrator knows that
he's experienced love and he knows that the verses, the monuments of words, can't accurately describe the feeling of love.)
Storm clouds break
Pools remain memories for
Earth embrace
That umbrate up above
They become
New love
New love
(Shit may happen. But eventually the stormclouds break. People may have died that loved people, or perhaps the love is just gone for one reason or another, but through their memories, their pools left behind, they inspire us to love more. As the sun comes out shining upon them, they cast a shadow down below (umbrate) and when we see this shadow, when we reflect upon their love, we make new love in their stead.)
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The second stanza interpretation is kinda shaky, imo. It doesn't feel like it fits so I think I'm missing a metaphor.
The second stanza interpretation is kinda shaky, imo. It doesn't feel like it fits so I think I'm missing a metaphor.
The way I see this song is that it's recognizing that religions may make love, they may do good, but in the end, if there's no god, as Gibbard plainly states in the first verse, all we have from that is the love. And he knows love. He's experienced love. He knows that all the verses in there don't describe love. They describe...
The way I see this song is that it's recognizing that religions may make love, they may do good, but in the end, if there's no god, as Gibbard plainly states in the first verse, all we have from that is the love. And he knows love. He's experienced love. He knows that all the verses in there don't describe love. They describe other more vile things, and there's a teensy bit about love. But it's mostly love God, serve God, put God before everyone else.
In the end, we don't need religion if everyone loves everyone.
There's no eye in the sky (God) Just our love No unobstructed view (Our "limited" understanding of reality that many theists claim) No perfect truths (No absolute Truth. Things are what you make of it) Just our love Just our love And there's no verse No monument of words (Bible) For our love For they can't hold All I know about my love, about my love (Love is a lot more than just following rules and worshiping a god. Love is about acting the best you can to people. Love is about forgiving. Love is not something that can even be captivated in a book for that would ruin the essence of love, for love is an experience. You can learn about love, but learning about love is like learning about skydiving: it just doesn't compare to the experience. The narrator knows that he's experienced love and he knows that the verses, the monuments of words, can't accurately describe the feeling of love.)
Storm clouds break Pools remain memories for Earth embrace That umbrate up above They become New love New love (Shit may happen. But eventually the stormclouds break. People may have died that loved people, or perhaps the love is just gone for one reason or another, but through their memories, their pools left behind, they inspire us to love more. As the sun comes out shining upon them, they cast a shadow down below (umbrate) and when we see this shadow, when we reflect upon their love, we make new love in their stead.)
Woops, meant to put this in the post, not needing to put as a reply.
Woops, meant to put this in the post, not needing to put as a reply.
The second stanza interpretation is kinda shaky, imo. It doesn't feel like it fits so I think I'm missing a metaphor.
The second stanza interpretation is kinda shaky, imo. It doesn't feel like it fits so I think I'm missing a metaphor.
The way I see this song is that it's recognizing that religions may make love, they may do good, but in the end, if there's no god, as Gibbard plainly states in the first verse, all we have from that is the love. And he knows love. He's experienced love. He knows that all the verses in there don't describe love. They describe...
The way I see this song is that it's recognizing that religions may make love, they may do good, but in the end, if there's no god, as Gibbard plainly states in the first verse, all we have from that is the love. And he knows love. He's experienced love. He knows that all the verses in there don't describe love. They describe other more vile things, and there's a teensy bit about love. But it's mostly love God, serve God, put God before everyone else.
In the end, we don't need religion if everyone loves everyone.