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The faces all around me they don't smile they just crack
Waiting for our ship to come but our ships not coming back
We do have time like pennies in a jar
What are we saving for
What are we saving for
There's a smell of stale feeling that's drinking from my skins
The drinking never stops because the drink off all our sins
We sit and throw our roots into the floor
What are we waiting for
What are we waiting for
[Chorus:]
So give me something to believe
'Cause I am living just to breathe
And I need something more
To keep on breathing for
So give me something to believe
Something's always coming you can hear it in the ground
It swells into the air
With the rising
Rising sound
And never comes but shakes the boards and rattles all the doors
What are we waiting for
What are we waiting for
[Chorus]
I am hiding from some beast
But the beast was always here
Watching without eyes
Because the beast is just my fear
That I am just nothing
Now its just what I've become
What am I waiting for
Its already done
Oh
[Chorus]
And I need something more
To keep on breathing for
So give me something to believe
Waiting for our ship to come but our ships not coming back
We do have time like pennies in a jar
What are we saving for
What are we saving for
There's a smell of stale feeling that's drinking from my skins
The drinking never stops because the drink off all our sins
We sit and throw our roots into the floor
What are we waiting for
What are we waiting for
[Chorus:]
So give me something to believe
'Cause I am living just to breathe
And I need something more
To keep on breathing for
So give me something to believe
Something's always coming you can hear it in the ground
It swells into the air
With the rising
Rising sound
And never comes but shakes the boards and rattles all the doors
What are we waiting for
What are we waiting for
[Chorus]
I am hiding from some beast
But the beast was always here
Watching without eyes
Because the beast is just my fear
That I am just nothing
Now its just what I've become
What am I waiting for
Its already done
Oh
[Chorus]
And I need something more
To keep on breathing for
So give me something to believe
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I think some of the comments here nailed what it was about, many of the same types of ideas are in my explanation.
(P.S. Don't be fooled by the name of the website. It isn't just a site for strictly rap fans to attempt and find meaning in other genres. There are plenty of people who specialize in other genres)
(1) the beast
(2) the fear is with in them like simon says
(3) theyre waiting fir a ship
(4) Ralph believes in the fire and thats the only thing that lets him keep sane
"The faces all around me they don't smile they just crack"
i feel like ive been hurt one two many times and u cant trust people and their intentions anymore
"Waiting for our ship to come but our ships not coming back"
waiting for my ship to come to carry me back on naive-ly like i did before i got hurt. but its never coming back. whats done is done.
"We do our time like pennies in a jar
What are we saving for"
now once we are hurt we hold ourselves back scared to put ourselves out there again. but what are u saving for?
"There's a smell of stale fear that's reeking from our skins."
scared to death of how we are wronged we cant operate without it controling out lives...
"The drinking never stops because the drinks absolve our sins"
i personally slightly resolved to drinking to fill in the empty hole i was left with. it makes it all 'better' for the time being
"We sit and grow our roots into the floor
But what are we waiting for?"
we get scared and set in our ways as to not step out of the boundaries we set for ourselves.
"So give me something to believe"
i need something to believe in to give me hope out of this hopeless situation
"Cause I am living just to breathe"
im living by the minimal way possible. nothing more. staying in my shell and not living life keeps me from getting hurt
"And I need something more
To keep on breathing for"
i need hope and a reason to pick myself up, dust my knees off, and start living again. and as the line says next:
"So give me something to believe"
"Something's always coming you can hear it in the ground"
figuratively its always in the back of my mind. i cant let it go and always expect it. so its always coming.
"It swells into the air
With the rising
Rising sound"
i anticipate the wrong that was done to me being done to me and the anxiety builds up till its almost unbearable.
"And never comes but shakes the boards and rattles all the doors"
it doesnt necessarily happen again at all. but im shaken up by whats been done to me. it gets me worked all out of place again where it left me before. scared.
"What are we waiting for"
as it says. ur waiting for it. but its not necessarily at your door knocking...
"I am hiding from some beast
But the beast was always here"
im trying to protect myself from getting hurt again but instead i created a beast within myself instead of letting it go
"Watching without eyes
Because the beast is just my fear"
as it says. my fear developed into a beast
"That I am just nothing
Now its just what I've become"
scared my hurt will hold me back and make me nothing yet my fear is what i am...
"What am I waiting for
Its already done"
im scared of getting hurt but it is in the past and i now need to let it go and start new
i hope someone else can relate how i did. these lyrics and my connection to them mean a lot to me. it helped me to sort through my emotions. thanks...
I dont think these guys are nothings though, they are awesome. Great song! Interesting and fantastic wordplay, great metaphors, amazing sound.
the first three verses are about how religion convinces people that the only reason for life is to reach the afterlife, so people live their lives waiting for a 'ship thats not comming back'
the song is told from the point of view of a non-believer who thinks that life has no point.
the final verse is the most important. the evil that religion speaks of is the very act of worrying about the afterlife. the most optimistic line of the song is 'now I am just nothing, now thats just what ive become'. by spending your life worrying and searching for something to believe and make you feel better about your life, you take the meaning out of life. the line implies that life HAS meaning to begin with.
the song suggests that living just to breathe is all the meaning one needs
seems optimistic enough for me
but the beast was always here
watching without eyes
because the beast is just my fear
That I am just nothing
now its just what I've become
what am i waiting for
its already done
My favorite lyrics!
friggen' essay! Jeez,I think that's the
longest comment I 've ever seen on Songmeanings!
The reply is still like a mile long!
I just like the song. It can be described
in -----ONE------ sentance. Ready?.....
He's on a search for GOD!
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A quick note on saving pennies in a jar: this reminds me of Horace's poem people know as Carpe Diem (actually meaning, pluck the day, the day beging compared to a rose in that both are fleeting a pass quickly). Horace warns his reader not to wish away time, (as in, do not wish for the boring class or work shift to "hurry up and end", otherwise we run the risk of wishing away our lives. If we treat small units of time, seconds, minutes, days, like pennies, and spend them frivolously, we will never live. But if you save them up, lots and lots of pennies still do not add up to much, so what what can we hope to buy when saving pennies? Even when you add up all the hours and days to years and decades, life is still very short. Thus this song seems to imply that saying don't wish your time away is like saying a penny saved is a penny earned. And if you fear that following the advice will accomplish nothing, then you run the risk of it being so.
That said, the first thought is with regards to the ship coming in and religion. Here the singer could be refering also to the second coming of Christ. According to Christian doctrine, that day will change us all. It will come like a theif in the night, like a sudden yet long expected eathquake (shakes the boards and rattles all the doors), the dead will be raised, and Jesus will come and lift the saved to heaven on a rising cloud as the damned are left behind and the earth is destroyed. Christians all over the world look forawrd to the rapture, and pray for its coming, when clearly the day of judgement is supposed to be a terrible day of wrath and death and destruction. This leaves room for us to think that perhaps the singer is secretly wishing for a disaster to change his condition, and if we get fruedian about it, the singer could be subconsiencely wishing for death. This song, then, offers insights and comments on faith ontop of everything else.
My second thought is concerned with the song's theme of change. Instead of ending with "it's already done," the singer repeats the chorus one last time, which makes more sense, I find, when compared to Classical Roman poety. For example, in ovid's great work, Metamorphosis, lots of folks are victims of their feared fate because they tried to avoid it; the paradox discribed in the song applies to these ancient myths. And when the victim runs his or her course of options, and there is no escape (such as when Daphne is in the clutches of her rapist Apollo, or a when the king's son is exiled or banashed or learns he has unknowingly murdered his father and slept with his mother), he or she will often lament. Often the person will, too late, understand how they themselves are responsible for this disasterous condition and acknowledge or curse their faults. Sometimes they wish for death, or lay dying, when they cry out for mercy from the gods. Others claim their fate is worst then death, and dying will only make matters worst because then they will face punishments forever more for their sins which put them in Hell in the first place. Then some god takes pity and changes their condition. Just when there is no hope left and the victim has given up, they are changed into birds and rivers and rocks and flowers, but most of the time, they are turned into trees. And here is the paradox: like a theife in the night, your salvation will only come when you don't expect it, so if you expect it, it will never come; likewise, your faith cannot be rewarded until you lose your faith. in sum, the song ends with the chorus the way a Latin poem would end with a prayer or lamentation to the gods begging for deliverance. This way the song gives us hope that the singer recieves some grace and his condidtion is changed. Perhaps he turned into a tree. This is far fetched, I know, but any possible reffercence to trees and change, i think, could be an allusion to the metamorposis, which never gets talked about enough. At least it shows how this song captures feelings and sentiments that people have shared for many many years.
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