Well, I don't know the best way to word it but basically its about losing someone that means everything to you (not like breaking up, but actually them passing away) and how it's hard to accept it, so you take comfort in the ideal of an afterlife. Thinking that you'll get to see them again when you die. So your life becomes this dull and meaningless thing you just have to wait through until you get to see the one that means everything to you again in the afterlife. Only one problem with that though: The afterlife isn't real, and you just spent the only life you'll ever get waiting for something that will never happen. People think the ideal of an afterlife is ok because it gives some people comfort, but it's doesn't do that, it hurts them because it makes there life seem more meaningless. If only they could accept that they'll never see them again, it would make there life better, they'd still cry about it sometimes but maybe they could realize at least they where a good person and at least they got to spend part of there life together, and if all it ever was was that, It'd be worth it. But the afterlife ideal won't let you see that. "Afterlife, oh my god what an awful word."
Oh, and the lyrics are a conversation between the writer that knows there's no afterlife, ("Afterlife: I see right through you like looking through a window") and someone in the situation above where they lost there loved one. ("But you say... If love is gone where did it go? Oh, we know it's gone, but where did it go? And where do we go?")
And I think if you listen closely the last couple of lines when "It's just an afterlife" is echoed, the "F" sound goes away, changing to "It's just an afterlie".
@UnabitiousKid Very good point about the afterlife to afterlie, I'm french so maybe I didn't heard it correctly, but I've also heard, afterlight, and at the beginning of the song he's saying: ...are done hanging on to the dead lights...
So finally, even when the light are dead, There will always be other lights in your life...
@UnabitiousKid Very good point about the afterlife to afterlie, I'm french so maybe I didn't heard it correctly, but I've also heard, afterlight, and at the beginning of the song he's saying: ...are done hanging on to the dead lights...
So finally, even when the light are dead, There will always be other lights in your life...
Well, I don't know the best way to word it but basically its about losing someone that means everything to you (not like breaking up, but actually them passing away) and how it's hard to accept it, so you take comfort in the ideal of an afterlife. Thinking that you'll get to see them again when you die. So your life becomes this dull and meaningless thing you just have to wait through until you get to see the one that means everything to you again in the afterlife. Only one problem with that though: The afterlife isn't real, and you just spent the only life you'll ever get waiting for something that will never happen. People think the ideal of an afterlife is ok because it gives some people comfort, but it's doesn't do that, it hurts them because it makes there life seem more meaningless. If only they could accept that they'll never see them again, it would make there life better, they'd still cry about it sometimes but maybe they could realize at least they where a good person and at least they got to spend part of there life together, and if all it ever was was that, It'd be worth it. But the afterlife ideal won't let you see that. "Afterlife, oh my god what an awful word."
Oh, and the lyrics are a conversation between the writer that knows there's no afterlife, ("Afterlife: I see right through you like looking through a window") and someone in the situation above where they lost there loved one. ("But you say... If love is gone where did it go? Oh, we know it's gone, but where did it go? And where do we go?")
And I think if you listen closely the last couple of lines when "It's just an afterlife" is echoed, the "F" sound goes away, changing to "It's just an afterlie".
Could be wrong, that's what I think at least.
Oh, and watch the new music video to this, that's where I got a lot of this from. :)
Oh, and watch the new music video to this, that's where I got a lot of this from. :)
@UnabitiousKid Very good point about the afterlife to afterlie, I'm french so maybe I didn't heard it correctly, but I've also heard, afterlight, and at the beginning of the song he's saying: ...are done hanging on to the dead lights... So finally, even when the light are dead, There will always be other lights in your life...
@UnabitiousKid Very good point about the afterlife to afterlie, I'm french so maybe I didn't heard it correctly, but I've also heard, afterlight, and at the beginning of the song he's saying: ...are done hanging on to the dead lights... So finally, even when the light are dead, There will always be other lights in your life...