A panopticon is a type of prison where the watchman (guards) can view the prisoners without being seen.
I think that Billy is saying that we are basically all prisoners of ourselves, as well as the watchmen of the prisons we build with our decisions. In even the darkest times, there are lights that shine in and those lights are what we should focus on in order to build our surroundings.
If I had to pick a few lines to illustrate this, they would be:
Use the views
To build don’t prove
(Panopticons offer many views of all areas of a prison... focus on the constructive ones to improve the prison, rather than proving it has faults)
as well as
There’s a sun that shines in
There’s a world that stares out of me
(the whole notion that we are kind of our own prison... an entire world is contained within us and it's up to us to view that world as a creator would view a creation)
A panopticon is a type of prison where the watchman (guards) can view the prisoners without being seen.
I think that Billy is saying that we are basically all prisoners of ourselves, as well as the watchmen of the prisons we build with our decisions. In even the darkest times, there are lights that shine in and those lights are what we should focus on in order to build our surroundings.
If I had to pick a few lines to illustrate this, they would be:
Use the views To build don’t prove
(Panopticons offer many views of all areas of a prison... focus on the constructive ones to improve the prison, rather than proving it has faults)
as well as
There’s a sun that shines in There’s a world that stares out of me
(the whole notion that we are kind of our own prison... an entire world is contained within us and it's up to us to view that world as a creator would view a creation)
i didn't notice your name until now, 420 ;) thanks for going over the album like me! it help kind of cement down what i already thought.
i didn't notice your name until now, 420 ;) thanks for going over the album like me! it help kind of cement down what i already thought.