| Broken Bells – The High Road Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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@[suomynona:44650] i have a different intepretation. Based on the dao te ching and the general idea that broken bells song often are about enlightenment. "Its too late to change your mind - you let loss be your guide" Since we cling to things we open up the possibility to lose them. You like your coffe cup? It may break You like your pc? It may break You found the love of your life? She will eventuall die some day. So by clinging to things you let loss be your guide. Because everything you have you will lose someday. And things you have some things that you realy love or things that you dont wanna give up, its already to late. As long as you stick to them you let loss be your guide. |
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| Broken Bells – Perfect World Lyrics | 1 year ago |
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1) "Oh London moon Help me stumble home Let me lose myself along the way" -----> Expresses the feeling of wanting the pain to go away or to be "enlighted" 2) "I've got nothing left It's kind of wonderful 'Cause there's nothing they can take away Away" ------> realize the duality of life. If you have something you will lose it. One of the ideas presented in the Tao Te Ching for example. 3) "The open doors Left me wanting more Never thought they'd close them all away" -----> Once you entered the world you thought there would be 10000 of open doors. If one door shuts down another opens. But once you realize that you need nothing to be complete, all the door shut down immeaditly cause you understand that that what you search CANT lie behind those doors. 4) "But it's another way to win a useless fight You've been lying so long from the way that you're faking See the water run and rise Just another day into a useless night I've been pushing so hard that my hands are shaking See the water run and rise" -----> after you realize that you need nothing than even this explanation is pretty useless. So its just another way to win a useless fight (of thoughts?). You explain everything to yourself but you feel deep inside of you that no explanation ever can come close to whats happening. Therefore you FEEL that you lied to yourself but you got so used to it that these feeling is just normal. And even thinking about this is "pushing so hard" that your hands are shaking. 5) "But I've been turned around I was upside down I thought love would always find a way But I know better now Got it figured out It's a perfect world all the same World" ------>Love never finds a way. Love IS the way. I think he refers to the Tao te Ching: the dao (for a lack of a better name they call it dao) is the thing that gives birth to the Mother of 10.000 things. So if the universe is the Mother that gave birth to all the things we witness, the dao gave the possibility for the Mother to give birth. Accepting the dao is accepting that things have ever been they way they are. Its all the same. Its a perfect world. This song is about a guy that finds the dao and realize that there is no reason to worry, because the dao is perfect. And if the dao is perfect, the world is perfect. 6) "I was hoping for An easy rambling life 'Till an ocean came to my mind We look for exit signs But we can't be changed Into nothing overnight Though we know it's over It keeps exploding Every morning when we rise" ------> He wanted to have an ez life but than life happend and the ocean are the the 10.000 things. Everything we discovered come to his mind. We are all looking for exit signs. How can we all unlearn what we are learned? Learning consist of daily accumulating. The way of the dao consist of daily removing. We cant changed into nothing over night, we need to remove it bit by bit. I would call it reverse learning. But even if we know that its over, we saw maya, we saw the illusion but it keeps exploding every morning when we rise. |
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