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| Talking Heads – Once In A Lifetime Lyrics
| 13 years ago
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The unexamined life is soo worth living!! Your brain got jacked up by Socrates. He should have told you that you don't have to examine life (to take it apart and consequently kill the thing that you want to know). Instead he could have just said that "the unnoticed life is not worth living, and the only reason that it's not worth living is because if a life went by and the person who lived that life did not notice that he had lived it, then it would have been a life unlived in from that liver's perspective. However, the life could have been worth living if the effects he had on others during his hiatus from consciousness had worthwhile consequences. So I think that an unexamined life can still be noticed and thus worthwhile because there is an internal witness to experience it. The information gained my this internal witness can make absolutely any any life worth living. To me I sounds like a genius right now, but that's probably just because I'm as high as a tethered kite. |
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| Cry Cry Cry – I Know What Kind Of Love Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Thanks for that helpful explanation. One thing, though, is that I think she was his student. She says "I won't see him until the classroom." I think he just didn't bother to learn her name, or the classroom was too big to know every student's name.
Great song. |
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| Dar Williams – My Friends Lyrics
| 16 years ago
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"Sometimes I see myself fine, sometimes I need a witness"
I love this line. It points out how one of the strongest powers of a good friend is the ability to show us the goodness in ourselves just by being a good witness. |
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| Alanis Morissette – Thank U Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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I agree with raysuq's insight into the transparent dangling carrot. I think, though, that she means it as something that we need to notice and eventually free ourselves from. I think that she's referring to the conditions of worth that our consumeristic society forces on us. We are constantly told in indirect ways that we are not good enough, but that earning and buying more will solve all our problems. Instead of helping us heal our false sense or inadequacy, our society accentuates that inadequacy and then tells us that consuming material goods is the answer. By swallowing this lie, we are enslaved into an endless carrot chase, and if we ever caught the carrot we'd see that it is no cure at all.
Alanis seems to have learned the India spiritual belief that the cure (self love and acceptance) is inside of you all along. The path to the cure is an inner one that requires self-control and patience. Instead of joining the carrot chase, simply sit still and do nothing, think nothing, and make peace with all the demons that have been chasing you. |
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| Alanis Morissette – That I Would Be Good Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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When I read the lyrics I'm reminded of the old testament (though I'm not particularly religious). It says that, after creating the world, God said it was "good". That feeling that something is innately good (there is nothing that a person can do or not to that would stop them from being worth loving and appreciating) is thought by some to be the very essence of mature love. It is that attitude of unconditional love for herself that she seems to be longing for in this song. The song seems to speak to all the things that she tells herself that she has to be and has to have in order to be worth loving. To me, this song is more about her wishing that she really loved herself, instead of it being about her longing for someone else to love her... Great song! India taught her well. |
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| Chris Smither – I Am the Ride Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This is an amazing song of strong religious importance. It seems he's expressing his frustration and disappointment about mainstream religion and offering a glimpse into his spirituality. I love the line that says God is "just like gravity, I said. It's not a product of my head. It doesn't speak but nonetheless demands attention." I also like his addition of the mystical belief that our ego convinces that we are passengers on the ride of life. However, in actuality, instead of us experiencing God, the purpose of the universe is to be God's vehicle for experience ("I'm not a passenger, I am the ride"). |
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| Chris Smither – I Am the Ride Lyrics
| 17 years ago
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This is an amazing song of strong religious importance. It seems he's expressing his frustration and disappointment about mainstream religion and offering a glimpse into his spirituality. I love the line that says God is "just like gravity, I said. It's not a product of my head. It doesn't speak but nonetheless demands attention." I also like his addition of the mystical belief that our ego convinces that we are passengers on the ride of life. However, in actuality, instead of us experiencing God, the purpose of the universe is to be God's vehicle for experience ("I'm not a passenger, I am the ride"). |
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| Jack Johnson – Talk of the Town Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I especially like the first line: "I want to be where the talk of the town is about last night when the sun went down". It seems to me he's talking about being in a place that has their priorities in order. Jack often talks about the silliness of our superficial and gossipy culture. Here he may be saying that he'd rather hear people talk about the beautiful sunset last night, rather than people talking about who slept with who and who wore what. Come to think of it, I'd also want to be where the talk of the town is about last night when the sun went down |
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| Paul Simon – Graceland Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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By the way, I think McThingy2 had a very insightful interpretation of "the cradle of the civil war" representing both the location of the american civil war and the civil war that was his divorce. |
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| Paul Simon – Graceland Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I like the line, "my travelling companions are ghost and empty sockets. I'm looking at ghosts and empties". I think this symbolizes the physical/emotional state he's in because of his past. Ghosts and empty sockets reminds me of the native american belief that pieces of your spirit can leave if they are neglected or abused. Some native Americans believe that you have to call those pieces back. Thus, pieces of his spirit have left him, leaving him with nothing but empty sockets. Part of the reason for this journey might be to find the pieces that left him due to neglect, and to re-member himself into one. The ghosts might represent the issues and scars he has never been able to heal or resolve.
I think that the human trampoline concept is similar to his song "slip sliding away" in that it represents the small amount of control humans have as they are hurled through the ups and downs of life. |
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| Paul Simon – Diamonds On the Soles of Her Shoes Lyrics
| 18 years ago
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I think that "shoes" here is referring to the spiritual walking shoes, and our walking is our path through life. I think diamonds on the soles of her shoes refers to this rich girl trying to avoid the pains of life by relying on her money and superficial pleasantries. That might be why he says, "well, that's one way to lose these walking blues".
The poor boy puts on aftershave, "to compensate for his ordinary shoes". This might mean that the boy is not rich, but he still wants to be a part of the superficial game of finding self-worth by having others desire you. I'm not sure about this intrepretation, but it seems plausible. |
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