This song is about the need to experience a fear of scarcity before one can can experience beauty in its highest form. The suffering commanded is the fear of scarcity that we feel in this life, whether a scarcity of food, water, shelter, love, companionship, belonging, or self-actualization. Some higher or wiser power inflicts suffering on us so that we can experience intense, unyielding beauty. This phenomenon is ironic and may even seem contradictory, hence:
This song is about the need to experience a fear of scarcity before one can can experience beauty in its highest form. The suffering commanded is the fear of scarcity that we feel in this life, whether a scarcity of food, water, shelter, love, companionship, belonging, or self-actualization. Some higher or wiser power inflicts suffering on us so that we can experience intense, unyielding beauty. This phenomenon is ironic and may even seem contradictory, hence:
"You're the champion of sorrow
You're the love and the pain
You're the fighter of evil
Yet you're one in the same"
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