the song makes sense if you think about their spiritual beliefs. mainly in this song its buddhism. in buddhism theres rules kind of like the 10 commandments, but theyre not rules in the sense that you HAVE to follow them, theyre there if you want to achieve enlightenment. pretty much the rules are 1: life will contain suffering 2: suffering is caused not by the object you desire, but by the desire itself 3: the suffering can end 4: learning to not desire those things will end your suffering
thats a basic explanation of the 4 noble truths. now, for the song, the first sentence is "unlearn me, ditch what i read, behind what i heard" its difficult for me to explain, but in buddhism, youre not supposed to cling to any desire or material object or anything at all that exists, because absense of that thing will cause pain. so to do that, you must "unlearn" everything, and eventually even unlearn what you learned in becoming buddhist... to be totally free, no attatchment whatsoever. thats what he means "from here on its instinctual" instinct is doing something without prior knowledge of it, like something you unlearned.
im nearly positive that this song is about buddhism having read a lot into it a little while back.
also, the "crow left of the murder" thing, just to add if you look in the inside cd booklet, theres apicture of a flock or "murder" of crows flying one way and one "left" with a hole through it like it was "murdered" a BIG play on words there.
I think you're trying a bit too hard to relate it to buddhism. I am sure they are into buddhism, but I don't think they are referring to it in this song. One of the major reasons is because your explanation only explains part of their lyrics and not the others. I would not be surprised if buddhist idealisms didn't play a role in their philosophy, but I think that this song is a bit more profound than just being about the philosophy. "Do you get it yet?" I think he's trying to explain something...
I think you're trying a bit too hard to relate it to buddhism. I am sure they are into buddhism, but I don't think they are referring to it in this song. One of the major reasons is because your explanation only explains part of their lyrics and not the others. I would not be surprised if buddhist idealisms didn't play a role in their philosophy, but I think that this song is a bit more profound than just being about the philosophy. "Do you get it yet?" I think he's trying to explain something to people that are hard headed...
this is gonna be a long explanation...
the song makes sense if you think about their spiritual beliefs. mainly in this song its buddhism. in buddhism theres rules kind of like the 10 commandments, but theyre not rules in the sense that you HAVE to follow them, theyre there if you want to achieve enlightenment. pretty much the rules are 1: life will contain suffering 2: suffering is caused not by the object you desire, but by the desire itself 3: the suffering can end 4: learning to not desire those things will end your suffering thats a basic explanation of the 4 noble truths. now, for the song, the first sentence is "unlearn me, ditch what i read, behind what i heard" its difficult for me to explain, but in buddhism, youre not supposed to cling to any desire or material object or anything at all that exists, because absense of that thing will cause pain. so to do that, you must "unlearn" everything, and eventually even unlearn what you learned in becoming buddhist... to be totally free, no attatchment whatsoever. thats what he means "from here on its instinctual" instinct is doing something without prior knowledge of it, like something you unlearned. im nearly positive that this song is about buddhism having read a lot into it a little while back.
also, the "crow left of the murder" thing, just to add if you look in the inside cd booklet, theres apicture of a flock or "murder" of crows flying one way and one "left" with a hole through it like it was "murdered" a BIG play on words there.
I think you're trying a bit too hard to relate it to buddhism. I am sure they are into buddhism, but I don't think they are referring to it in this song. One of the major reasons is because your explanation only explains part of their lyrics and not the others. I would not be surprised if buddhist idealisms didn't play a role in their philosophy, but I think that this song is a bit more profound than just being about the philosophy. "Do you get it yet?" I think he's trying to explain something...
I think you're trying a bit too hard to relate it to buddhism. I am sure they are into buddhism, but I don't think they are referring to it in this song. One of the major reasons is because your explanation only explains part of their lyrics and not the others. I would not be surprised if buddhist idealisms didn't play a role in their philosophy, but I think that this song is a bit more profound than just being about the philosophy. "Do you get it yet?" I think he's trying to explain something to people that are hard headed...