A Labor More Restful Lyrics

Lyric discussion by benjaminteddy 

Cover art for A Labor More Restful lyrics by Dirty Projectors

Surprised no one has wanted to give their piece on this masterpiece.

The whole moral of it all may be summed up in the first verse but in the second it gets more in depth. There's the sense of an overworked population, of complacent people who have stopped looking and therefore created all of the banality in the world. There are constructs of 'uniqueness' but they are just that- ideas, something created by our minds to fit into this world that was banal to begin with when we were born. At the same time there's the sense of this being directed at someone almost. Like a fellow day dreaming friend who would soul search with Dave. In that sense it almost sounds like a cautionary tale to the friend, warning that when you stop looking, when you become ignorant to what you'd rather not be part of you can find yourself blindly serving it.