Lyrics for In A Jar as interpreted by TheBurningInferno

In A Jar Lyrics
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes.
Stones in your eyes, stones in your mouth.
Stones in your ears, stones in your mind.
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes.

We live in a jar and think the lid's the sky.
Your hoping for a savior on your cross outside.
Stars are just a million little fireflies.
The sun is just a hole; it's the light outside.

[backwards recording: The chariots shall rage in the streets]

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Maybe I should rest, but on the seventh day
I've created nothing and I'm wide awake.
So can I tie my key to your electric kite?
The rooster crowed twice and you kissed me goodnight.

There's too many saviors on my cross again.
I know I'm never gonna be a perfect man.
Everyone's an oyster with their grain of sand.
I love you most, the summer now it has to end.

(?)

Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes.
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes.
Stones in your eyes, stones in your eyes.
I'd run a million miles if you were first prize.

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brandon tautou
08-31-2009

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I think he says, "I love you most in summer, now it has to end."

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laces0utalex
08-31-2009

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"The sun is just a horn; is the light outside."

I think it's "the sun is just a hole, it is the light outside."

It fits the 'jar' metaphor a little more, considering when people but living things in jars they tend to put holes in the top for air.


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Arter
08-31-2009

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The sun is just a hole, and there's a light outside.

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Arter
08-31-2009

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The whole stones thing makes me think of "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil." It also conjures up thoughts on Plato's Cave... look it up.

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boyslikebullets
08-31-2009

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The allegory of the cave didn't come to mind while listening to this song, but it's interesting to think about in the context of this song.

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BrandNewman55
09-01-2009

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gosh its songs like this that will make me start using my brain again.. lol

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meatistic
09-01-2009

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After the sun/outside line the quiet has a line from a recording played in reverse:

"The chariots shall rage in the streets,"
which is a line from Nahum 2:4

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TheBurningInferno
09-01-2009

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nice call meatistic

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Arter
09-01-2009

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I think the chorus thing might be:

"No one save me, or I'm [or "from my"]
Taking hold of you
Somewhere they [something]
But there's nowhere we'll be safe tonight"
or the last line could be "but there's no one who can save me now"

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littlelight
09-03-2009

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its "i love you most in song but now it has to end."

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andoneheadcanneverdie
09-03-2009

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what does the whole stones in your eyes thing mean? is it a biblical reference?

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meatistic
09-03-2009

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Considering most of the song has relation to biblical concepts and the word stones appears a lot in the bible, probably so. But I haven't found any specific verses.

I just took it to refer to people who find sin in everything, judging and wanting to punish sinners, i.e. casting stones.

The first verse implies to me those who take the world for granted and not willing to see the world for what it really is. The comments about the Allegory of the Cave are spot on.

"created nothing," parallel to creation, people who put faith in the Lord should be doing good works in his name.

"Electric kite" refers to decrying advancement, but then hitching on to all of its successes.
The rooster crowing is a reference to Peter's denial of Christ, then reaffirming his faith and being a support for others.

"Too many saviors," taking too many people as prophets/martyrs, like evangelists and what not.
The negative kind of these people hammer on ideas of how terrible we as humans are"
Oyster with a grain of sand," everyone's got the potential to do beautiful and miraculous works, when we figure out the last line on this verse it'll help

The chorus sections would probably shed some more light on the subject. Some ideas to think about.

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Arter
09-03-2009

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My interpretation is that it plays on "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil." The mind part is added to invoke absence of thinking. As for stones, "let he who is without sin cast the first stone." As in, people are ignoring their own sins, but they're swift to cast stones at others in light of it.

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laces0utalex
09-05-2009

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I figured the electric kite thing was a reference to Ben Franklin.

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Arter
09-09-2009

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"Can I tie my key to your electric kite?"
Obviously, Ben Franklin discovered electricity or whatever with that. Think about it, though.
If a key is made of metal, and the kite is already electrified, tying the key to it would result in electrocution. I take it as a reference to self-punishment. He'd take the electrocution to be with whoever the line is aimed at, either a girl or God or whomever you feel the song is relating to.
Then the following "The rooster crowed twice, and you kissed me goodnight" is a Bible reference. Jesus told Peter that before the rooster crowed twice, Peter would deny him three times. Peter said it was ridiculous, that he'd never deny Christ, but he ended up doing it.
In this song, however, the rooster crows twice, and the narrator is kissed goodnight. I get the impresison that it's sort of like a "good boy, you didn't deny me" type of thing, but I could be wrong.

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WeezeRing
09-10-2009

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Very close Arter, but I don't think the "kissed goodnight" line is a "good boy" sort of thing. I think it refers to the kiss that Judas gave to Jesus to point him out to to the soldiers. That line in particular has a strong theme of betrayal, which can be seen in quite a bit of this song. But most of the betrayal mentioned isn't a literal betrayal. The "people in the jar" are betrayed by reality. They have no way to differentiate what they believe is real from what's actually real. "Plato's Cave" (as mentioned before) is a perfect example of this. The shadows that the people see on the wall become their reality, as opposed to a reflection of reality, much like the people in the jar see the fireflies as the stars and the hole in the jar as the sun.

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Arter
09-10-2009

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I hadn't thought of the Judas kiss. Makes sense, I think.

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WeezeRing
09-10-2009

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It does, right? I think the album, as a whole, is full of biblical references. Like, "Maybe I should rest, but on the seventh day
I've created nothing and I'm wide awake" is a reference to the Book of Genesis and how it says that God created the universe in a week and designated the seventh day (the Sabbath) as a day of rest.

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flamedeluge
09-11-2009

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This is what I got... the stones... used by people, voluntarily to block reality; people living half awake, walking around in a sort of zombie like state. This part to me seems like an observation on humankind. I think the thing about sin and casting stones is a good interpretation as well. The next line, We live in a jar, and the lid is the sky, is brilliant, and pretty obvious I think. Above the clouds is heaven, right. We are here, in a jar(physical existance(earth)), and when we die the lid will open and let us in, if we have been good, and maybe kept the stones in our...to prevent our sinning. The line about never going to be a perfect man seems suggest this sinning thing to.
And so on.... ...Just my interpretation, maybe I'm way off, maybe I'm not.

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Arter
09-12-2009

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The other day I started thinking this song might have come about as the result of someone sitting around and watching WAY too much Neon Genesis Evangelion. Then I thought that interpretation was probably the result of myself sitting around and watching way too much NGE, haha. But seriously, if you've never seen the show, like a third of the show is spent with the major characters debating whether or not they actually exist, if anything else exists besides them, etc. And there are a crap ton of religious references throughout. It's probably totally unrelated, but I thought it might be worth mentioning.

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ArmonAnor
09-14-2009

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I'm fairly certain, after a few hundred listenings (lol), that the breakdown screaming part is:

"Noone saves me from my taking hold of you [Or it might be 'taking hold anymore']
Come with me my love
there is noone that can save us [me at first, then us] now"

I reversed the radio bridge, and it is in fact Nahum 2:4 (or 4:2?)

"The chariots will rage in the streets."

Just a few grand lyrics for those of you with a craving for the real stuff ;)

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DejaJazdu
09-19-2009

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im pretty sure the heavy part is "someone save me because i can't control anymore. someone save my life because there's no where safe tonight."

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mattlarsonn
09-22-2009

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i think its "NO ONE SAVE ME CAUSE I"M SINKING SLOWLY"

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Jules9
09-23-2009

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The "the sun is just a hole; it's the light outside" line is actually

"The sun is just a hole. What is the light outside?"

I didn't really get the cave allegory feel from this. However, there's a series called everworld where they theorize that the sky in that dimension is just a bowl with holes in it and the stars aren't real. I thought that was cool.



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kuper
09-23-2009

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im 85 percent sure these are the lyrics to the chorus...

no one save me tonight
take a try, but leave a light,
somewhere safe, but i know,
where you're going,
is not safe tonight

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