i think it's about how when you're young you have all these ideals that you live for, and when you get out of college you start making compromises. you take a corporate job because you're tired of being shit poor. and so you meet a woman and your family or coworkers or "the american way" persuade you to marry her. and all the sudden you wake up at 40 thinking, "what the fuck is this? how did i give up so much to land here?" as you realize that you've sold all of your ideals for "success."
I think like many of the songs on "Remain in Light", this song is a critique of the path of normalcy and materialism, verses the path of spirit ("water"). Sonically, there is a synth sound that plays continuously during the song (except for the chorus) that represents water every-present. The song has religious overtones shown in the vocal delivery of a preacher in the vein of MLK. Water relieves thirst, it washes clean, it is there after the money is gone, but also it represents rebirth or baptism. In this case, the man seeks the path...
I think like many of the songs on "Remain in Light", this song is a critique of the path of normalcy and materialism, verses the path of spirit ("water"). Sonically, there is a synth sound that plays continuously during the song (except for the chorus) that represents water every-present. The song has religious overtones shown in the vocal delivery of a preacher in the vein of MLK. Water relieves thirst, it washes clean, it is there after the money is gone, but also it represents rebirth or baptism. In this case, the man seeks the path of normalcy but finds himself unable to find a coherent meaning of his life in the in the face of existential questions - he finds his he has no deep foundations. On the other hand, a huge body of water is there, potentially to absorb his ego, to wash his sins, satisfy his thirst for transcendence, and give him birth as a spiritual being, and provide the kind of existential rootedness and stability that he seeks.
Jn 3:5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.
i think it's about how when you're young you have all these ideals that you live for, and when you get out of college you start making compromises. you take a corporate job because you're tired of being shit poor. and so you meet a woman and your family or coworkers or "the american way" persuade you to marry her. and all the sudden you wake up at 40 thinking, "what the fuck is this? how did i give up so much to land here?" as you realize that you've sold all of your ideals for "success."
I think like many of the songs on "Remain in Light", this song is a critique of the path of normalcy and materialism, verses the path of spirit ("water"). Sonically, there is a synth sound that plays continuously during the song (except for the chorus) that represents water every-present. The song has religious overtones shown in the vocal delivery of a preacher in the vein of MLK. Water relieves thirst, it washes clean, it is there after the money is gone, but also it represents rebirth or baptism. In this case, the man seeks the path...
I think like many of the songs on "Remain in Light", this song is a critique of the path of normalcy and materialism, verses the path of spirit ("water"). Sonically, there is a synth sound that plays continuously during the song (except for the chorus) that represents water every-present. The song has religious overtones shown in the vocal delivery of a preacher in the vein of MLK. Water relieves thirst, it washes clean, it is there after the money is gone, but also it represents rebirth or baptism. In this case, the man seeks the path of normalcy but finds himself unable to find a coherent meaning of his life in the in the face of existential questions - he finds his he has no deep foundations. On the other hand, a huge body of water is there, potentially to absorb his ego, to wash his sins, satisfy his thirst for transcendence, and give him birth as a spiritual being, and provide the kind of existential rootedness and stability that he seeks.
Jn 3:5 Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless they are born of water and the Spirit.