The newest lead single off of PearlJam’s 11th studio album, Gigaton, Dance of the Clairvoyants seems to entice youth beyond any sense of time and leads them to give in to their instincts....of sex.
How can music drive us to feel an emotion if we think too much? The lyrics address this paradox when they state,
“Expecting perfection
Leaves a lot to ignore
When the past is the present
And the future's no more
When every tomorrow
Is the same as before”
But if there is no need to expect perfection, what is left? The song is called “Dance of the Clairvoyants” and at first pass, the listener might expect future tellers. But, the repetition of “Stand back when the spirit comes” seems to imply that the youth listening to the music has a sort of power to tap into a more essential way of living, free from the ills of the past and the pressures of the future and so deliciously seductive that they can escape this feeling that permeates making them feel that “...every tomorrow is the same as before”.
So, the music plays, the girls give in to their baser nature to “dance” and “fall away from their circumstance” while the boys are just want to “grow their dicks”. In the end, Clairvoyants dancing is another way of saying that there is power in letting go and listening to music with your body and soul. Otherwise, “The looser things get/ The tighter you become”, a warning to let go once in a while and feel yourself.
The newest lead single off of PearlJam’s 11th studio album, Gigaton, Dance of the Clairvoyants seems to entice youth beyond any sense of time and leads them to give in to their instincts....of sex.
How can music drive us to feel an emotion if we think too much? The lyrics address this paradox when they state,
“Expecting perfection Leaves a lot to ignore When the past is the present And the future's no more When every tomorrow Is the same as before”
But if there is no need to expect perfection, what is left? The song is called “Dance of the Clairvoyants” and at first pass, the listener might expect future tellers. But, the repetition of “Stand back when the spirit comes” seems to imply that the youth listening to the music has a sort of power to tap into a more essential way of living, free from the ills of the past and the pressures of the future and so deliciously seductive that they can escape this feeling that permeates making them feel that “...every tomorrow is the same as before”.
So, the music plays, the girls give in to their baser nature to “dance” and “fall away from their circumstance” while the boys are just want to “grow their dicks”. In the end, Clairvoyants dancing is another way of saying that there is power in letting go and listening to music with your body and soul. Otherwise, “The looser things get/ The tighter you become”, a warning to let go once in a while and feel yourself.