I can't believe someone didn't nail this one yet. This song is simply about existentialism. It's about the classic questions: what's the meaning of life and what happens when we die. He also talks about something really important in these parts:
"Instead of asking him how much of your time is left
Ask him how much of your mind, baby"
"And if the elevator tries to bring you down
Go crazy, punch a higher floor"
The concept here is that this world with a lot of its stresses, evil, anxiety, etc. has a tendency to challenge one's mental resiliency. He's saying that letting this world get you down or even worse causing you to lose your mind would cause you to stop living while you're alive. It reminds me of this quote:
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." -Norman Cousins
If we are to believe in an afterlife and we know the physical body doesn't go, we must ask themselves what is left that does go. It's this part that we must take great care of above all else. You can call it your mind, consciousness or soul but Prince is saying the loss of that is the worst thing of all so never let that happen no matter how much life tries to get you down.
@zifn4b Ain't it crazy that Prince died in an elevator in his estate? It almost implies that Prince's lyrics spoke to his everyday personal life, which included having an elevator in his own home.
@zifn4b Ain't it crazy that Prince died in an elevator in his estate? It almost implies that Prince's lyrics spoke to his everyday personal life, which included having an elevator in his own home.
@michaelpzo Isn't that crazy at all...more like prophetic... and from my perspective, beyond prophetic. I think his whole life is an example, a prime example of what Christ spoke of, of what Christ said would be built from His example - including designing his own death, all based from Christ's teaching. I think all true believers will do this, design their death, with purpose, and direction. Not suicide... but conscious rejoining/seperation (depending on your perspective) with the divine.
@michaelpzo Isn't that crazy at all...more like prophetic... and from my perspective, beyond prophetic. I think his whole life is an example, a prime example of what Christ spoke of, of what Christ said would be built from His example - including designing his own death, all based from Christ's teaching. I think all true believers will do this, design their death, with purpose, and direction. Not suicide... but conscious rejoining/seperation (depending on your perspective) with the divine.
I can't believe someone didn't nail this one yet. This song is simply about existentialism. It's about the classic questions: what's the meaning of life and what happens when we die. He also talks about something really important in these parts:
"Instead of asking him how much of your time is left Ask him how much of your mind, baby"
"And if the elevator tries to bring you down Go crazy, punch a higher floor"
The concept here is that this world with a lot of its stresses, evil, anxiety, etc. has a tendency to challenge one's mental resiliency. He's saying that letting this world get you down or even worse causing you to lose your mind would cause you to stop living while you're alive. It reminds me of this quote:
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live." -Norman Cousins
If we are to believe in an afterlife and we know the physical body doesn't go, we must ask themselves what is left that does go. It's this part that we must take great care of above all else. You can call it your mind, consciousness or soul but Prince is saying the loss of that is the worst thing of all so never let that happen no matter how much life tries to get you down.
@zifn4b Ain't it crazy that Prince died in an elevator in his estate? It almost implies that Prince's lyrics spoke to his everyday personal life, which included having an elevator in his own home.
@zifn4b Ain't it crazy that Prince died in an elevator in his estate? It almost implies that Prince's lyrics spoke to his everyday personal life, which included having an elevator in his own home.
@michaelpzo Isn't that crazy at all...more like prophetic... and from my perspective, beyond prophetic. I think his whole life is an example, a prime example of what Christ spoke of, of what Christ said would be built from His example - including designing his own death, all based from Christ's teaching. I think all true believers will do this, design their death, with purpose, and direction. Not suicide... but conscious rejoining/seperation (depending on your perspective) with the divine.
@michaelpzo Isn't that crazy at all...more like prophetic... and from my perspective, beyond prophetic. I think his whole life is an example, a prime example of what Christ spoke of, of what Christ said would be built from His example - including designing his own death, all based from Christ's teaching. I think all true believers will do this, design their death, with purpose, and direction. Not suicide... but conscious rejoining/seperation (depending on your perspective) with the divine.
@zifn4b Wow thanks for writing such a great interpretation and the additional quote!!
@zifn4b Wow thanks for writing such a great interpretation and the additional quote!!