The actual music of this track is fantastic, and what intially attracted me to it, but I can't lose myself in the fantasy of the lyrics. A lot of people think it's about hitting rock bottom and succeeding anyway, but those are empty words reflecting an economic theory, and they haven't lived them. The actual lyrics talk about being touched by the hands of god, and feeling so peaceful it is as if, as if, all the pain and horror was ok. She says, as if, to emphasise the feeling of peacefulness granted by the gods. She does not say it was actually all ok and necessary, just tha tit feels as if it was. Then she loses herself in the blissfulness of peace, and talks about certainties shes doesn't have. Which is normal for humans to do, but it is only as if the best way forward is to fail. It is only as if the best way is to almost die. It is only as if to risk it all and fall is best. As if, not in actuality. We cannot be making claims of truth about life without considering the whole implications of what we are saying. Slavery, rape, murder, war, domestic violence, torture, terrible losses of all kinds, imagine if all of it was actually ok. Yes, now it doesn't seem so peachy, if you are the one having to live through it.
The actual music of this track is fantastic, and what intially attracted me to it, but I can't lose myself in the fantasy of the lyrics. A lot of people think it's about hitting rock bottom and succeeding anyway, but those are empty words reflecting an economic theory, and they haven't lived them. The actual lyrics talk about being touched by the hands of god, and feeling so peaceful it is as if, as if, all the pain and horror was ok. She says, as if, to emphasise the feeling of peacefulness granted by the gods. She does not say it was actually all ok and necessary, just tha tit feels as if it was. Then she loses herself in the blissfulness of peace, and talks about certainties shes doesn't have. Which is normal for humans to do, but it is only as if the best way forward is to fail. It is only as if the best way is to almost die. It is only as if to risk it all and fall is best. As if, not in actuality. We cannot be making claims of truth about life without considering the whole implications of what we are saying. Slavery, rape, murder, war, domestic violence, torture, terrible losses of all kinds, imagine if all of it was actually ok. Yes, now it doesn't seem so peachy, if you are the one having to live through it.