"Every new day is a gift, it's a song of redemption
Any expression of love is the way to return
To that place that I think of so often, but now never mention
The one the voice in the back of my head says that I don't deserve"
It is saying <love is the way to return to that place>, many commented that place as heaven, at least in a strict sense it is probably not heaven. One point is that we see this shift to all Buddhist concepts, which does not include a concept of heaven; also if u read it literally, if u get to return to some place, u have to be there at some prior point, but do every people born at heaven, and sort of come down to the earth, until his death as a return to the heaven? I am not sure unless you are Jesus, while this is the people's key. To me, that place refers to the code, the basis, and essence of life later in the lyrics. *you might think this has something to do with Protestant traditions, the universal priesthood of believers as such, I prefer not.
"Come fire, come water, come karma
We're all in transition
The Wheel of Becoming erases the physical mind
Until all that remains is a staircase of misinformation
And the code we inherit, the basis, the essence of life"
*I am not a Buddhist, my mother is, so I do know some basis of Buddhism. In Buddhism, fire is to burn, water is to purify, fire represents anger, hatred, while water represents calmness, life giver. Everything you do brings karma, if you express anger and hatred, then you get bad karma; and you get good karma through love and inner peacefulness. That is the transition, the constant juxtaposition of what is pure and what is not, love and hatred, calmness and anger, but it is not fixed, rather in a flowing state as you do all kind of things. The Wheel of Becoming refers to Bhavachakra in Buddhism, is basically a teaching of reincarnation, there is a circle of life where every being is involved, and depends on their karma they reincarnate appropriately. So when you die, you physical body and mind erased, but something has remained to determine who you are, which is the <code we inherit, the basis, the essence of life>. The wheel of becoming in a sense rules out all misinformation of life, it is like a staircase which we walk through it to embrace the truth, true love.
Then, the rain is water, or being purified, umbrella is probably refers to his memory, his life.
Another point,
"So it starts again
At our childhood's end
I'll die young at heart"
This coincides with his "return" to "that place", for anyone who is interested, I would like to draw a connection to Nietzsche's eternal return/ recurrence, which has been implied at least a few time elsewhere, an explicit one from Forced Convalescence,
"I'm not afraid of the future
Have to suffer and repeat
I tend to agree
What happens will be
Pain of my own making
Cut short by eternity"
If it feels weird to read this lyrics, is because he states a conclusion in the first paragraph, and kind of go through the process how he figured out that conclusion, until he says <But I know it now>. How? dark and the day is the contrast, but it "fell into line" because of love, its rather simple, is it?
"Every new day is a gift, it's a song of redemption Any expression of love is the way to return To that place that I think of so often, but now never mention The one the voice in the back of my head says that I don't deserve" It is saying <love is the way to return to that place>, many commented that place as heaven, at least in a strict sense it is probably not heaven. One point is that we see this shift to all Buddhist concepts, which does not include a concept of heaven; also if u read it literally, if u get to return to some place, u have to be there at some prior point, but do every people born at heaven, and sort of come down to the earth, until his death as a return to the heaven? I am not sure unless you are Jesus, while this is the people's key. To me, that place refers to the code, the basis, and essence of life later in the lyrics. *you might think this has something to do with Protestant traditions, the universal priesthood of believers as such, I prefer not.
"Come fire, come water, come karma We're all in transition The Wheel of Becoming erases the physical mind Until all that remains is a staircase of misinformation And the code we inherit, the basis, the essence of life" *I am not a Buddhist, my mother is, so I do know some basis of Buddhism. In Buddhism, fire is to burn, water is to purify, fire represents anger, hatred, while water represents calmness, life giver. Everything you do brings karma, if you express anger and hatred, then you get bad karma; and you get good karma through love and inner peacefulness. That is the transition, the constant juxtaposition of what is pure and what is not, love and hatred, calmness and anger, but it is not fixed, rather in a flowing state as you do all kind of things. The Wheel of Becoming refers to Bhavachakra in Buddhism, is basically a teaching of reincarnation, there is a circle of life where every being is involved, and depends on their karma they reincarnate appropriately. So when you die, you physical body and mind erased, but something has remained to determine who you are, which is the <code we inherit, the basis, the essence of life>. The wheel of becoming in a sense rules out all misinformation of life, it is like a staircase which we walk through it to embrace the truth, true love.
Then, the rain is water, or being purified, umbrella is probably refers to his memory, his life.
Another point, "So it starts again At our childhood's end I'll die young at heart" This coincides with his "return" to "that place", for anyone who is interested, I would like to draw a connection to Nietzsche's eternal return/ recurrence, which has been implied at least a few time elsewhere, an explicit one from Forced Convalescence, "I'm not afraid of the future Have to suffer and repeat I tend to agree What happens will be Pain of my own making Cut short by eternity"
If it feels weird to read this lyrics, is because he states a conclusion in the first paragraph, and kind of go through the process how he figured out that conclusion, until he says <But I know it now>. How? dark and the day is the contrast, but it "fell into line" because of love, its rather simple, is it?