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I love you Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ I love you
Yes I do
I love you Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ I love you
Yes I do
And on the lazy days
The dogs dissolve and drain away
The world it goes
And all awaits
The day we are awaiting
Up and over
We go through the wave and undertow
I will float until I learn how to swim
Inside my mother in a garbage bin
Until I find myself again again '
Up and over we go
Mouths open wide and spitting still
And I will spit until I learn how to speak
Up through the doorway as the sideboards creek
With them ever proclaiming me me oh
Up and over
We go the weight it sits on down and I don't know
I will shout until they know what I mean
I mean the marriage of a dead dog sing
And a synthetic flying machine machine
Oh-Oohh-Oh-Oh
Oh-Oohh-Oh-Oh
Oh-Oohh-Oh-Oh
Oh-Oohh-Oh-Oh
(Okay)
Jesus Christ I love you
Yes I do
I love you Jesus Christ
Jesus Christ I love you
Yes I do
And on the lazy days
The dogs dissolve and drain away
The world it goes
And all awaits
The day we are awaiting
Up and over
We go through the wave and undertow
I will float until I learn how to swim
Inside my mother in a garbage bin
Until I find myself again again '
Up and over we go
Mouths open wide and spitting still
And I will spit until I learn how to speak
Up through the doorway as the sideboards creek
With them ever proclaiming me me oh
Up and over
We go the weight it sits on down and I don't know
I will shout until they know what I mean
I mean the marriage of a dead dog sing
And a synthetic flying machine machine
Oh-Oohh-Oh-Oh
Oh-Oohh-Oh-Oh
Oh-Oohh-Oh-Oh
Oh-Oohh-Oh-Oh
(Okay)
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We go through the wave and undertow
I will float until I learn how to swim
Inside my mother in a garbage bin
Until I find myself again again"
out of my head. my thoughts are it relates to being conceived, simply re read it with a comma --> "inside my mother, in a garbage bin".
that is all.
Just thought I'd let everyone know in case it helps anyone interpret it better.
i find it hard to see where you get the idea that "jeff;s a wuss" haha how has anything this guy said implied that? I believe u are still stuck in the idea that language is truth. (if you dont follow what i mean that is ok, communication is fucked). Jesus Christ has many different meanings depending on who you ask. A prophet, A god, merely human or a symbol. Some will say he has never existed. What then? he says he loves someone that doesnt exist. That can have several meanings itself. Maybe jeff is saying he loves what doesnt exist, maybe he says he loves the idea of a perfect human, maybe he is a christian and genuinely "loves" christ.
Anyway i hope you will read this, simply because i think you have much to learn (as we all do). I will leave u with one last little piece that may change your mind. hindu accepts jesus as a prophet, jesus is god for christianity, for jews he is not thier messiah. And i thin that muslims also concider him a prophet, dont quote me on that though.
(by Regiane K.S.)
I was in a skype conf with some friends, one of them sends me part 1 and 2/3 of this song and says: "listen carefully, take off your headphones and turn on your soundsystem speakers, let yourself drown in this music". I was curious and did what he asked. It was so awe inspiring, i didnt even let the music end and i was listening to it again (part 1). It was as if i couldnt believe my ears. What type of person could sing that the way that guy did? The images cast in my mind, the feelings overflowed my heart. When i finnaly let the music go ahead to part 2/3 I shivered from head to toe... The moment the singer "sang" I Love You Jesus Christ... it was just too much. That was not singing, it was something transcendentally different. I broke down in tears, the emotion was too strong, i was gasping, crying, laughing, claping... I cant compare the experience to anything i've ever felt. My spirit swelled in my chest more and more at each syllable. From that moment on, I'm changed. I've grown. All thanks to Mr. Mangum.
Like Jeff, I grew up in a religious family in the Southern U.S. I'm an atheist now, but I really like that he did this. What shocked me was the realization that there isn't already a hymn that just plainly states what Jeff states, here. It makes all the other religious songs sound overly-elaborate and contrived.
Oh, and P.S. to the guy who reiterated C.S. Lewis' trashy argument about having to believe in the divinity of Jesus -- being the result of centuries of compilation and revision, the Bible is an unreliable source of information. I take the expressions of ideas that I like from it (such as loving your neighbor and not worrying about stuff so much and considering the lilies of the field) and take only an academic interest in the rest-- just like I do with any book.
Not sure what this Anne Frank stuff is all about because it seems to be a cut-and-dry love story between Part 1's narrator and the King of Carrot Flowers, a kid whose potential is getting squandered by a terrible home life. Part 1 is the first guy talking about how their relationship started; Part 2 is just an interlude, sung by either of them or both at the same time I guess, showing that time is passing; Part 3 is the King talking to the narrator about how messed up he is but he's going to keep trying and is determined to overcome his past because he loves him.
"And your mom would stick a fork right into daddy's shoulder
And dad would throw the garbage all across the floor".
In that light, the line could mean that the mother is a receptacle for a lot of verbal, emotional, or even physical abuse from the father. He lays all his negativity, aggression, and disappointment (his garbage) in her.
Also, did anybody else notice that this song had been originally titled "Up And Over We Go", and the next song is "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea". Meaning that if the song was left with it's first title, the album would have read UP AND OVER WE GO IN THE AEROPLANE OVER THE SEA. I don\t know if that holds any significance. Perhaps the two songs are related? Perhaps it gives more credibility to the theory of this album as a concept album? Either, I just found that to be an interesting fact.
oh also im surprised no one caught the two Tool references "Undertow" and "Learn to Swim", but maybe the only reason i did is cause im a Tool FREAK.
to me this song is a guy who is totally in love, so in love he feels like he is REBORN (my explanation for all the birth references).
I love Mangum. -_-