Spektor uses the original sin as the symbol that it is in modern life, wich is a symbol of the moral judgement every human is capable of. In judaism (Spektor was born jewish), the first sin of man was eating a fruit wich allowed him to know right from wrong; that is what got man out of the simple life of pleasure it had in paradise. This moral knoledge is also kind of the "power to the people", it is the reason behind humans way of thinking and superiority.
So this song is about the universal internal conflict between looking for the right thing and looking for pleasure. We kind of want pleasure above all, but we always have to confront our moral before enyoing.
I think one key to understand this song is that some words repeat over and over, while others elaborate a little more about moral judgement and pleasure. So the elaborating words where she says "we don't want it, we want pleasure" resumes and explains the meaning of the song beautifuly, the following words about television and "meetings" talk about a concrete representation of that conflict, and words about faitful are more about internal moral faith as in religion than just some sexual relationship.
The words that repeat a lot make for concrete symbols of the meaning of this song while they double as some kind of internal dialogue. Particularly "it's all right" and "No one's got it all" is like saying "It (life) is okay, even if we don't have this(desire or the capacity of doing right)"
Maybe it's an optimistic song, as they tend to be. But the important part is that it is a song about the conflict between the pleasure in ignorance of right and wrong, and moral conscience. The song is called hero because it plays with the religious metaphore: it is said that Yawe made alliances with human to save them from that original sin, but the hero of the story may be protagonist over the alliance and doesnt need to be saved. So the final words about hero maybe talking about some kind of peace between the conflict I say; I don't know. Maybe there is the optimistic part one may see in this song.
The orgininal sin is "where problems started" in many religions, as if knowing right and wrong and thus being capable of both is the center of human suffering. So, at the end, I get this as a song about how complicate human life is and resolutions about it.
Oh, and, obviously. He never saw it coming is a reference to human as adam and open wide is a reference to eat, as in the classic playful feeding mothers use to do with ther children to make them eat.
Oh, and, obviously. He never saw it coming is a reference to human as adam and open wide is a reference to eat, as in the classic playful feeding mothers use to do with ther children to make them eat.
Out of those concrete references, I think they say how unavoidable is moral conscience.
Out of those concrete references, I think they say how unavoidable is moral conscience.
The song may be called hero also because of the strong moral obligation everyone has of always acting strictly according to their conciense. "Do always good" and that sort of thing, just like the sterotypical hero would.
The song may be called hero also because of the strong moral obligation everyone has of always acting strictly according to their conciense. "Do always good" and that sort of thing, just like the sterotypical hero would.
Spektor uses the original sin as the symbol that it is in modern life, wich is a symbol of the moral judgement every human is capable of. In judaism (Spektor was born jewish), the first sin of man was eating a fruit wich allowed him to know right from wrong; that is what got man out of the simple life of pleasure it had in paradise. This moral knoledge is also kind of the "power to the people", it is the reason behind humans way of thinking and superiority.
So this song is about the universal internal conflict between looking for the right thing and looking for pleasure. We kind of want pleasure above all, but we always have to confront our moral before enyoing.
I think one key to understand this song is that some words repeat over and over, while others elaborate a little more about moral judgement and pleasure. So the elaborating words where she says "we don't want it, we want pleasure" resumes and explains the meaning of the song beautifuly, the following words about television and "meetings" talk about a concrete representation of that conflict, and words about faitful are more about internal moral faith as in religion than just some sexual relationship.
The words that repeat a lot make for concrete symbols of the meaning of this song while they double as some kind of internal dialogue. Particularly "it's all right" and "No one's got it all" is like saying "It (life) is okay, even if we don't have this(desire or the capacity of doing right)"
Maybe it's an optimistic song, as they tend to be. But the important part is that it is a song about the conflict between the pleasure in ignorance of right and wrong, and moral conscience. The song is called hero because it plays with the religious metaphore: it is said that Yawe made alliances with human to save them from that original sin, but the hero of the story may be protagonist over the alliance and doesnt need to be saved. So the final words about hero maybe talking about some kind of peace between the conflict I say; I don't know. Maybe there is the optimistic part one may see in this song.
The orgininal sin is "where problems started" in many religions, as if knowing right and wrong and thus being capable of both is the center of human suffering. So, at the end, I get this as a song about how complicate human life is and resolutions about it.
Oh, and, obviously. He never saw it coming is a reference to human as adam and open wide is a reference to eat, as in the classic playful feeding mothers use to do with ther children to make them eat.
Oh, and, obviously. He never saw it coming is a reference to human as adam and open wide is a reference to eat, as in the classic playful feeding mothers use to do with ther children to make them eat.
Out of those concrete references, I think they say how unavoidable is moral conscience.
Out of those concrete references, I think they say how unavoidable is moral conscience.
OH! Sorry for the triple post;
OH! Sorry for the triple post;
The song may be called hero also because of the strong moral obligation everyone has of always acting strictly according to their conciense. "Do always good" and that sort of thing, just like the sterotypical hero would.
The song may be called hero also because of the strong moral obligation everyone has of always acting strictly according to their conciense. "Do always good" and that sort of thing, just like the sterotypical hero would.