I agree with everything said, however, we are forgetting that this song came from a concept album -- "Hurry up, We're Dreaming" is all about experiences of life felt in dreams. This song definitely has the essentialist tones that have been discussed and is very poetic, but the song does speak about long lost love. "Will you stand on this land forever?" is the author's pleading that his dream about his long lost love will not end.
why does the "long lost love" have to be one specific person? it could also refer to something even bigger than romantic love... such as the kind of transcendental force that overtakes you ("capsize," even?) when you feel, just for a few fleeting moments or two, the connections between yourself, humanity, the planet and everything in it, and the universe... to everything. literally. "one with the universe," and all that, the kind of feeling that is so difficult to even describe or rationalize because it's so... well, transcendental. it does indeed transcend space and time, words, is so much bigger...
why does the "long lost love" have to be one specific person? it could also refer to something even bigger than romantic love... such as the kind of transcendental force that overtakes you ("capsize," even?) when you feel, just for a few fleeting moments or two, the connections between yourself, humanity, the planet and everything in it, and the universe... to everything. literally. "one with the universe," and all that, the kind of feeling that is so difficult to even describe or rationalize because it's so... well, transcendental. it does indeed transcend space and time, words, is so much bigger than your body or your concept of yourself or anything than can be quantified or even symbolized by any word or any symbol or symbol of a symbol, anything that can be grasped by the human brain, ego, or thoughts...
of course, m83 captured a slice of this ephemeral yet infinite feeling with this song. so yes, it's about love. it's about the kind of love that you know once you're lucky enough to feel it, yet it is true, romantic love is a branch branching off from another branch of an even larger branch of a tree amongst other trees in this forest among forests, into infinity.
yet the original branch is equally as true and real and beautiful as that of the zoomed out forest of forests, a hologram, a fractal representation of the whole of love to infinity. this song is amazing, m83 is amazing. sorry for posting my stream-of-consciousness meanderings on your post, i got lost among a wave.
I agree with everything said, however, we are forgetting that this song came from a concept album -- "Hurry up, We're Dreaming" is all about experiences of life felt in dreams. This song definitely has the essentialist tones that have been discussed and is very poetic, but the song does speak about long lost love. "Will you stand on this land forever?" is the author's pleading that his dream about his long lost love will not end.
That is a really refreshing way to look at it! Somehow the dream aspect hadn't occurred to me, but that does definitely fit well.
That is a really refreshing way to look at it! Somehow the dream aspect hadn't occurred to me, but that does definitely fit well.
why does the "long lost love" have to be one specific person? it could also refer to something even bigger than romantic love... such as the kind of transcendental force that overtakes you ("capsize," even?) when you feel, just for a few fleeting moments or two, the connections between yourself, humanity, the planet and everything in it, and the universe... to everything. literally. "one with the universe," and all that, the kind of feeling that is so difficult to even describe or rationalize because it's so... well, transcendental. it does indeed transcend space and time, words, is so much bigger...
why does the "long lost love" have to be one specific person? it could also refer to something even bigger than romantic love... such as the kind of transcendental force that overtakes you ("capsize," even?) when you feel, just for a few fleeting moments or two, the connections between yourself, humanity, the planet and everything in it, and the universe... to everything. literally. "one with the universe," and all that, the kind of feeling that is so difficult to even describe or rationalize because it's so... well, transcendental. it does indeed transcend space and time, words, is so much bigger than your body or your concept of yourself or anything than can be quantified or even symbolized by any word or any symbol or symbol of a symbol, anything that can be grasped by the human brain, ego, or thoughts...
of course, m83 captured a slice of this ephemeral yet infinite feeling with this song. so yes, it's about love. it's about the kind of love that you know once you're lucky enough to feel it, yet it is true, romantic love is a branch branching off from another branch of an even larger branch of a tree amongst other trees in this forest among forests, into infinity.
yet the original branch is equally as true and real and beautiful as that of the zoomed out forest of forests, a hologram, a fractal representation of the whole of love to infinity. this song is amazing, m83 is amazing. sorry for posting my stream-of-consciousness meanderings on your post, i got lost among a wave.