I haven't decided on on what this song quite means yet, but part of it seems to be about peace, and summertime, and calmness (what is a masterfade? well, it doesn't matter) and part of it sort of seems like it's about how science and mathematics sort of miss out on a lot of beauty in the world. (I don't necessarily agree with that, but it does make a good case.)
"well you sure didn't look like you were having any fun.../and when you look up at the sky/all you see are zeros/all you see are zeros and ones" In being so calculating you see the sky as numerals and miss out on everything wonderful about it.
"if we're all matter/what's it matter does it matter/if we're all matter when we're done?" This could be a comment on how the idea that we're just lumps of walking, talking matter trivializes human existance, and even if there is no "meaning of life" and no god and we're just a blob of organized cells, who cares?
"I saw you standing all alone in the electrostatic rain/I thought at last I'd found a situation you can't explain" A situation where logic fails and you have to abandon scientific reasoning.
"your happiness won't find you underneath that canopy of trees" You won't be happy if you continue seeing things the way you do now.
"if the green grass is 6 the soybeans are 7/the junebugs are 8 the weeds and thistles are 11" seeing things as numbers again
I put way too much thought into that... something that is most definitely wrong, wrong, wrong.
I definitely like the track this thread is on in terms of the interpretation of this song. Spirituality v science (or the incorporeal v the corporeal) seems to be a recurring theme throughout bird's compositions. I don't get the feeling that Bird thinks mathematics and science aren't important- just that they're incomplete. I've been having the same problem with science, actually. I feel like the "our mind is just a series of neurons firing" school of thought completely passes over the immense complexity and sophistication possessed by the human mind.
I definitely like the track this thread is on in terms of the interpretation of this song. Spirituality v science (or the incorporeal v the corporeal) seems to be a recurring theme throughout bird's compositions. I don't get the feeling that Bird thinks mathematics and science aren't important- just that they're incomplete. I've been having the same problem with science, actually. I feel like the "our mind is just a series of neurons firing" school of thought completely passes over the immense complexity and sophistication possessed by the human mind.
I haven't decided on on what this song quite means yet, but part of it seems to be about peace, and summertime, and calmness (what is a masterfade? well, it doesn't matter) and part of it sort of seems like it's about how science and mathematics sort of miss out on a lot of beauty in the world. (I don't necessarily agree with that, but it does make a good case.)
"well you sure didn't look like you were having any fun.../and when you look up at the sky/all you see are zeros/all you see are zeros and ones" In being so calculating you see the sky as numerals and miss out on everything wonderful about it.
"if we're all matter/what's it matter does it matter/if we're all matter when we're done?" This could be a comment on how the idea that we're just lumps of walking, talking matter trivializes human existance, and even if there is no "meaning of life" and no god and we're just a blob of organized cells, who cares?
"I saw you standing all alone in the electrostatic rain/I thought at last I'd found a situation you can't explain" A situation where logic fails and you have to abandon scientific reasoning. "your happiness won't find you underneath that canopy of trees" You won't be happy if you continue seeing things the way you do now.
"if the green grass is 6 the soybeans are 7/the junebugs are 8 the weeds and thistles are 11" seeing things as numbers again
I put way too much thought into that... something that is most definitely wrong, wrong, wrong.
I definitely like the track this thread is on in terms of the interpretation of this song. Spirituality v science (or the incorporeal v the corporeal) seems to be a recurring theme throughout bird's compositions. I don't get the feeling that Bird thinks mathematics and science aren't important- just that they're incomplete. I've been having the same problem with science, actually. I feel like the "our mind is just a series of neurons firing" school of thought completely passes over the immense complexity and sophistication possessed by the human mind.
I definitely like the track this thread is on in terms of the interpretation of this song. Spirituality v science (or the incorporeal v the corporeal) seems to be a recurring theme throughout bird's compositions. I don't get the feeling that Bird thinks mathematics and science aren't important- just that they're incomplete. I've been having the same problem with science, actually. I feel like the "our mind is just a series of neurons firing" school of thought completely passes over the immense complexity and sophistication possessed by the human mind.