This song may be about the limits of speech. In each verse the narrator addresses a wise (or mystical) figure, who is privy to mysteries, knowledge, etc. But in each verse, he tells the 'enlightened' to shut up ("Don't you say a word," "Don't you tell a soul").
Either this Life Seeker can only preserve his sense of mystery by remaining an ignoramus, OR he knows that words cannot express the ineffable, and that what the Starhip Trooper, or Sister Bluebird, knows, can't be told in speech. (Words are better at conveying that which is familiar to us - "in sweet accustomed ways.")
The fact that "What you don't know I have never heard" becomes "What I don't know I have never heard" might be a punchline supporting the 'ignoramus' reading, but "Disillusion" seems to favor the second reading.
The "Disillusioned" narrator mentions that what he knows is only relevant if you accept what he says as fact, but when he says things, they can be mistaken, and misunderstood, and "this is all confusion." However, when he stops "saying" and starts "showing" you the day in him, it becomes a possibility that "you may follow."
Direct, inexpressible, human experience, or religious experience, or world experience, is often reduced or betrayed by words. The Life Seeker shares his soul with the Starship Trooper, and lets Mother Life hold him, but doesn't speak to them or let them speak to him.
This song may be about the limits of speech. In each verse the narrator addresses a wise (or mystical) figure, who is privy to mysteries, knowledge, etc. But in each verse, he tells the 'enlightened' to shut up ("Don't you say a word," "Don't you tell a soul").
Either this Life Seeker can only preserve his sense of mystery by remaining an ignoramus, OR he knows that words cannot express the ineffable, and that what the Starhip Trooper, or Sister Bluebird, knows, can't be told in speech. (Words are better at conveying that which is familiar to us - "in sweet accustomed ways.")
The fact that "What you don't know I have never heard" becomes "What I don't know I have never heard" might be a punchline supporting the 'ignoramus' reading, but "Disillusion" seems to favor the second reading.
The "Disillusioned" narrator mentions that what he knows is only relevant if you accept what he says as fact, but when he says things, they can be mistaken, and misunderstood, and "this is all confusion." However, when he stops "saying" and starts "showing" you the day in him, it becomes a possibility that "you may follow."
Direct, inexpressible, human experience, or religious experience, or world experience, is often reduced or betrayed by words. The Life Seeker shares his soul with the Starship Trooper, and lets Mother Life hold him, but doesn't speak to them or let them speak to him.