The refrain “F.E.A.R (you’ve got the fear)” seems out of keeping with the verses. The verses talk of finding freedom and the resulting consequences: creativity, realisation, revolution, yet the refrain insists you have the fear, why should that be so?
These “positive” consequences of freedom have their basis in more “negative” forms: you cannot create without first being empty; you cannot realise without having previously not realised (which can create a despair at time lost and for others who are still where you were); you cannot bring revolution without destroying what came before, even if this is your own ignorance - it may have been a comfortable place from which it would be scary to overturn.
Ultimately, this new found beautiful thing also brings an overwhelming fear - fear without an object, free-floating fear, a vertiginous fear, like looking over the precipice into the infinite void of possibility. Don’t fall in! :)
The refrain “F.E.A.R (you’ve got the fear)” seems out of keeping with the verses. The verses talk of finding freedom and the resulting consequences: creativity, realisation, revolution, yet the refrain insists you have the fear, why should that be so?
These “positive” consequences of freedom have their basis in more “negative” forms: you cannot create without first being empty; you cannot realise without having previously not realised (which can create a despair at time lost and for others who are still where you were); you cannot bring revolution without destroying what came before, even if this is your own ignorance - it may have been a comfortable place from which it would be scary to overturn.
Ultimately, this new found beautiful thing also brings an overwhelming fear - fear without an object, free-floating fear, a vertiginous fear, like looking over the precipice into the infinite void of possibility. Don’t fall in! :)