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Why don't you go photograph
Everything that ever passed in time,
Indigenous traces, tribal chiefs,
Vanishing hereditary lines,
Poets gone wild on the muse
Prophets all destroying the Tao,
When you see that honking antelope,
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all,
Nature based being will survive
Apocalyptic days of now,
Poets gone wild on the muse
Prophets all destroying the Tao,
When you see that honking antelope,
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all,
Of it all,
Run away with me now,
Run away with me now,
My life,
We are the cause of a world thats gone
wrong,
Nature will survive us human dogs after all,
Why don't you go photograph
Everything that ever passed in time,
Poets gone wild on the muse
Prophets all destroying the Tao,
When you see that honking antelope,
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all,
When you see that honking antelope,
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all,
Of it all,
Run away with me now,
Run away with me now,
My love,
We are the cause of a world thats gone
wrong,
Nature will survive us human dogs after all,
We are the cause of a world thats gone
wrong,
Wouldn't it be great to heal the world
With only a song
Everything that ever passed in time,
Indigenous traces, tribal chiefs,
Vanishing hereditary lines,
Poets gone wild on the muse
Prophets all destroying the Tao,
When you see that honking antelope,
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all,
Nature based being will survive
Apocalyptic days of now,
Poets gone wild on the muse
Prophets all destroying the Tao,
When you see that honking antelope,
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all,
Of it all,
Run away with me now,
Run away with me now,
My life,
We are the cause of a world thats gone
wrong,
Nature will survive us human dogs after all,
Why don't you go photograph
Everything that ever passed in time,
Poets gone wild on the muse
Prophets all destroying the Tao,
When you see that honking antelope,
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all,
When you see that honking antelope,
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all,
Of it all,
Run away with me now,
Run away with me now,
My love,
We are the cause of a world thats gone
wrong,
Nature will survive us human dogs after all,
We are the cause of a world thats gone
wrong,
Wouldn't it be great to heal the world
With only a song
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Words mean something a little different to each person because we have different experiences and memories therefor we have a unique perspective. Of course there is the dictionary definition of words which IS definite but how that word relates to us personally is another aspect. Music is about that aspect which we relate to in our own way. So Serj doesn't like giving his meaning to his songs and I respect that. If he gave his personal meaning I think it would make the lyrics more definite like a dictionary definition and I don't think it would be true art anymore.
To me this song is about us messing everything up. "We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong."
To someone this might be about problems in their family, things they regret. To someone else it could be about the company they work for that dumps their waist in the waterway. It's really limitless. Different people have messed the world up in different ways. If Tarj said that what he was talking about was the terrorists who blow up buildings or something and they are the cause, then it would become more definite and become less meaningful.
My favorite part is "wouldn't it be great to heal the world with only a song!?"
I think allot of people would get up there and sing a song to the world if they could to heal it. I was thinking that maybe each person will get a chance to save the world and they will, and the universe will never die.
Serj ends this masterpiece with a great line "Wouldnt it be great to heal the world
With only a song" ... This song helped guide me to heal the world and it will for you also whether you are ready or not.
An antelope, which honks instead of making it's natural sound. As if it were an unnatural animal.
I am sick and tired of an equal globalizam,
I am sick and tired of faschisam,
I am sick and tired of this type of people!
I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH SERJ!
SERJ YOU ARE THE BEST!
JUST KEEP GOING IN THAT WAY AS YOU ARE NOW!!!!!!!GORANA
PEACE
The only that I interpret in a different way are the following lines:
"Poets gone wild on the muse
Prophets all destroying the Tao,"
I see the muse as a metaphor for nature because many artists are inspired by nature.
Although Poets and Prophets are usually intelligent people most of them fail to recognize a very basic issue of our world: The importance of a nature(= muse; tao) in balance.
Seems to be very obvious to me.
I love this song. Sums up my view on mankind.
"...i thought it was more about poperazi and Americas obsession with celebrity's that dont do crap..."
regarding the lyrics: "why dont you go and photograph everthing that ever passed in time? "
I have to disagree, I think he's referencing the fact that we, as a society, are obsessed with pictorially capturing everything in nature even though we don't care enough to physically preserve them. We are a nation of lazy conservationists. It's too much work to actually change our way of life so we aren't contributing to global warming "so why don't [we] go and photograph everthing that ever passed in time?"