Lyrics for Willful Suspension of Disbelief as interpreted by pensivedeity

Willful Suspension of Disbelief Lyrics
Everywhere, everywhere, everywhere
It's all so plain, it's all a plan
It's all so plain to most everyone
The sky doesn't ever end
The air just gets much thinner further up
You could keep digging down and down
A thousand graves down without turning around or finding hell
You find you're digging up again
Everywhere, everywhere, everywhere
Willful suspension of disbelief

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Shawnfischer
08-01-2002

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what a rad song im not to sure what its about but it seems like its saying you can look for something and spend your whole life looking for it but that if its something unatainable something that you cant really get that one thing you want but cant have it just seems like your going in circles

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dancingbears
04-19-2003

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this song could easily have religious connotations. you'll never find heaven or hell.

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zouyan
04-12-2004

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wow, dancingbears that seems very plausable. when he talks about the sky never ending, it could be seens you will never find heaven. and digging down, you will never find hell. and the name of the song cause you need to duspend your disbelief to have faith in religion.

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Food
10-30-2004

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wow, this zouyan guy knows his shit. :o

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elfrijol
12-31-2004

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zouyan nailed that bitch.

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Studson
02-08-2005

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yeah, this is my favorite song by mm, yeah, i agree about the heaven and hell theme, i thought the same thing first time i read the lyrics, you can never find heaven or hell no matter how far you go.

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SparklingLemonade
06-04-2005

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While the heaven and hell thing makes a lot of sense, I don't know if it is entirely plausable given the fact that Isaac Brock is a very outspoken atheist. He states that clearly in many of the songs, so I'm just not sure if that factor fits in.

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bLUE_PeNgUiN
09-15-2005

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That's what atheist means; someone who doesn't believe in heaven and hell and all that stuff. That's what this song is saying; that you're not going to find heaven or hell no matter how far you dig or how high you go up because they don't exist. And even though Isaac says that he's atheist I dont think it's entirely true. From what I got from some of his other songs, it would seem like sometimes he would like to believe that there is a heaven, cause it's a pretty depressing thought that there will be no afterlife after you die. I'm the same way.

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mrpoopoohead
01-05-2006

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i think its about what zouyan said and also maybe how amazing and wierd the thought of "everywhere" is.

"The sky doesn't ever end
The air just gets much thinner further up"

"You could keep diggin' down and down
A thousand graves down without turnin' around or finding hell
You find you're diggin' up again"

maybe the cd title is Everywhere And His Nasty Parlour Tricks because the thought of "everywhere" helped create religion.

hahaha this is all random thoughts that are almost for sure wrong.

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Flubleah
02-03-2006

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Unless you speak with Isaac Broc you won't find the exact meaning, but i think theres a good chance it has something to do with religion. Like Zouyan said you need to duspend your disbelief, the title is a double negative, it means decide to stop your disbelief, of what he does not say but belief is often referred to religion. I also like how he says, "A thousand graves down without turnin' around or finding hell." that kinda gave it away.

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pete5528
02-21-2006

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i beleive there was a philosopher named descartes that published an essay about "willful suspension of beleif/judgement" or something along those lines where he talked about how he chose not to beleive anything because there was no reason to think that anything was what it seemed, and this song seems to be about how people do the exact opposite of this.

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killsw1tch
03-14-2006

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Ya, this song has White Lies Yellow Teeth lyrics.(another mm song not released) I reccomend downloading it! My favorite song by mm right now, a better version..

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WhySoModestMrMouse
07-13-2006

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It's not really an athiest point-of-view. Athiest just means that person doesn't believe in a god. They might still believe in some sort of divine. The "willful suspension of disbelief" could either be refering to something like pete said. But he is willfully stopping his disbelief in religion, maybe to continue searching or because not being able to reach Heaven or Hell is because of a divine barrier so humans can't find it.

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Serilazareth
09-08-2006

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Willful Suspension of Disbelief is a literary device describing what you do when you come in contact with a piece of fiction that bends the rules you know. For example, elves don't exist but if you read the Lord of the Rings you have to suspend the impulse to say "elves don't exist, this is garbage."

ironic how its about religion. maybe its saying how people will keep believing in an afterlife and the rewards of religion just because it gives them security, no matter the evidence against it.

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stoiaboy
11-19-2006

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is brock an atheist? i would most assuredly say he has to be, but there is always this dichotomy in mm's lyrics that leaves one to question.

this song really expresses the impossibility of a heaven and hell in the physical sense, as obviously, one will never be found.

still, something about this song, maybe the title, tells me that brock still has some religous/spiritual inclinations or struggles.

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luckyorange
01-15-2007

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serilazareth is completely right about the title..ive read about the "willful suspension of disbelief" with alot of different writers and little articles that talk about it being about letting go of your boundaries and your understanding of reality when you read a fiction or watch a movie..thats exactly what brock is getting at..we believe in this completely impossible possibility despite the complete and total lack of proof (ie the air that justd get thinner and the land that just gets deeper)..we suspend our grasp of reality to believe what we want just like in reading books and watching movies

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straightmobbinak
01-17-2007

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You guys ever heard of agnosticism? A descriptor for those people that don't necessarily believe in a god, but also don't flat out deny the existence of one. I think Brock leans more toward this than atheism, as he seems to be posing questions about it. A lot of times he even seems to assume the existence of a god in order to say some caustic shit about him!

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metalmouth
02-17-2007

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I would like to call attention to the opening lines of "Doin’ the Cockroach":

“I was in heaven;
I was in hell.
Believe in neither,
But fear them as well."

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Relapser
03-28-2007

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People who believe in god are never going to change. They are just going to twist the meaning of everything to suit their beliefs. People who don't believe in him however know what a rad song this is.

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broken_shoelaces
04-01-2007

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this song is about drowning....just listen to it and read the lyrics....it makes sense....plus the song has a whole watery feel to it when you listen to it

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stephh925
05-08-2007

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"It's all so plain its all a plan
It's all so plain to most everyone"

This line is causing me debate. At first I thought that it was about belief in God. A lot of people believe that God has a plan for everyone and everything. That's what I think he's referencing when he says "it's all a plan." And this concept is clear to so many religious people... "it's plain to everyone."

But then again, he could be saying that there is nothing beyond what we can see. There is no magic... "it's all so plain."

Yet I still wonder what he meant by "plan".

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SadSappySucker
07-21-2007

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mrpoopoohead was right when he said he was wrong. and his name is inmature, it makes me laugh, esspically after viewing one of brocks side projects "Ugly casanova"'s music video for "Things I don't remember".

Anyway, lots of brock's stuff (the never ending math equation, this one, etc.) talks about how trippy time and space are and how frusterating it is to think about. I think that "everywhere and his nasty parol tricks" talks about how there really is no everywhere because space keeps going. Hwo can you define an indefinity. This is a "nasty parlor trick".

P.s. brock, if you are out there, may all your questions find answers. I hopeless hope so for you

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om3ga
02-20-2008

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I think everywhere=God, in reference to his/her/it's omnipotence (all-seeing, all-knowing and being all places at all times). I would have to agree that Brock leans toward agnosticism, I think any reasonably intelligent "atheist" should. Free-thinking People on both sides of the equation (those with faith and those without) have a strong feeling one way or the other but there is always that nagging "but what if?" in the back of their heads. It takes blind faith/conviction to say there definitely is or isn't a God and that's all there is to it. People are naturally skeptics (the curse of being able to reason) and it takes a strong willfull suspension of that skepticism/disbelief to have faith. I myself am an agnostic but I don't downplay the importance of religion, it provides those with faith a direction who have trouble finding it elsewhere. It's ORGANIZED religion that scares me.

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Wayward-Airman
07-04-2008

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Everywhere, everywhere, everywhere
It's all so plain, it's all a plan
It's all so plain to most everyone

(The information is obvious to an unbiased eye)

The sky doesn't ever end
The air just gets much thinner further up
You could keep digging down and down
A thousand graves down without turning around or finding hell
You find you're digging up again
Everywhere, everywhere, everywhere

(We live in a physical world, theres no heavenly empire in the sky or hell in the strata)

Willful suspension of disbelief

(If you believe in these things, its a conscious effort to abandon that voice in your head that asks questions)

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turd_ferguson
04-12-2009

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I agree with alot of what has been said. Heaven and hell don't exist and u can spend ur entire life searching for them and all the other stuff with religion. The only way to think they exist and basically to have religion/faith is to have a "willful suspension of disbelief" which is basically saying to forget everything u know and just believe. Which some religious people seem to do a little too much when they seem so crazy. Brock is an athiest but i bet he still has something in him that still wanders if theres something more. Someone said somethin about Brock bein more towards agnostic so i don't rly know but the line "I was in heaven, I was in hell, believe in neither but fear em as well", the opening line to doin the cockroach (amazing song)seems to be kinda agnostic.

This might be my favorite mm cd, too bad its so short but it has the best name and album art of all their stuff. I think Everywhere and his nasty parlour tricks is kinda how our very existance is just screwing around with us. Religion and is just a nasty parlour trick i guess. idk... kinda just makes you question a lot... and i love modest mouse for that

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