I'm surprised no ones mentioned the "music industry" angle here. God being the organisations that lord over artists. Fist filling their heads with dreams of riches and fame. But then once you're in the business, you discover its all a lie. And you're nothing but a little worker ant.
"Hey God, why are you doing this to me?
Am I not living up to what I'm supposed to be?
Why am I seething with this animosity?
Hey God, I think you owe me a great big apology"
He's not producing cds fast enough, or that stay at number 1 long enough so he gets pressure and grief from the big men who run the show.This causes him to hold animosity towards the industry.
"Hey God, I really don't know what you mean
seems like salvation comes only in our dreams
I feel my hatred grow all the more extreme
hey God, can this world really be as sad as it seems?"
Its not all about the music, its about the money. people become cash cows, and the masses eat it up. (this is in general, not that he is a cash cow.)
"Don't take it away from me, I need you to hold on to"
He still wants to be making music and doesn't want to be torn out of the industry.
I find the religion angle to be very accurate. But i thought of this as a possible dual meaning hidden within the obvious messages.
Your grammar isn't bad, so I'm going to assume you're not stupid. However, you obviously have never felt the depths of pain that this man was going through when he created this music for the first time.
Your grammar isn't bad, so I'm going to assume you're not stupid. However, you obviously have never felt the depths of pain that this man was going through when he created this music for the first time.
He was dying and God did the same thing God always does: nothing. No matter what he tried to accomplish, no matter how hard he tried, or how moral he acted, he still lost everything. He still got to feel so hopeless, and the only path he could find out of that hopelessness was anger. Tears of fear rip through him as he proclaims God non-existent. That's the only thing he can believe to save his life: If I'm in this much pain, how can there be a God?
I have felt this, as I'm sure many people have... and it has nothing to do with money. A man doesn't write a song as powerful as this for something so meaningless as a bunch of greedy fools taking money from other, more artistically creative, greedy fools. This system functions well enough to get this music to us, it does not warrant that level of fear and pain. It does not define the world's misery. God does.
@wordbarber true that the influence and upbringing with "god" can mess you up pretty bad, but I feel all artists can get in a very bad place yes spiritually and that takes a toll on "sanity" whatever that means ha ha :) but emotionally and physically I do see the comparison to the company and noting the worker ant thing he said, its true, if you haven't seen the film "Barton Fink" it will show both similarities of both God AND the music industry or any art industry (in the film in was movie writing) and this theory to terrible...
@wordbarber true that the influence and upbringing with "god" can mess you up pretty bad, but I feel all artists can get in a very bad place yes spiritually and that takes a toll on "sanity" whatever that means ha ha :) but emotionally and physically I do see the comparison to the company and noting the worker ant thing he said, its true, if you haven't seen the film "Barton Fink" it will show both similarities of both God AND the music industry or any art industry (in the film in was movie writing) and this theory to terrible lie is compounded by the song "happiness in slavery" sorry I skipped a point on the physical and emotional aspect, when you are a creative person you are already very weary of control, because art can be interpreted and used in soo many ways that can be very negative, which is not why artist do art in the first place (mostly)...this loss of control can also be disheartening for someone who is only gifted in art, it feels like a curse...plus Trent is known to try and maintain control over his work thats why his first album was done all by himself...And that very much so can lead to fear and pain, because most people that can create are living on the edge of existence in my opinion, ghosts (ha ha) really so imagine the fear and pain of an artist living on the street or not being able to hold a job due to mental illness or being a victim of drug addiction/abuse. I tell you from experience the pain of not having a place to go and the fear of merely trying to survive in a place soo designed for people to follow the system and people soo afraid to lose that system would kill off somebody else stuck in a hard place just so they can live in a dream like matrix that does nothing to develop a healthy human being.
I'm surprised no ones mentioned the "music industry" angle here. God being the organisations that lord over artists. Fist filling their heads with dreams of riches and fame. But then once you're in the business, you discover its all a lie. And you're nothing but a little worker ant.
"Hey God, why are you doing this to me? Am I not living up to what I'm supposed to be? Why am I seething with this animosity? Hey God, I think you owe me a great big apology"
He's not producing cds fast enough, or that stay at number 1 long enough so he gets pressure and grief from the big men who run the show.This causes him to hold animosity towards the industry.
"Hey God, I really don't know what you mean seems like salvation comes only in our dreams I feel my hatred grow all the more extreme hey God, can this world really be as sad as it seems?"
Its not all about the music, its about the money. people become cash cows, and the masses eat it up. (this is in general, not that he is a cash cow.)
"Don't take it away from me, I need you to hold on to"
He still wants to be making music and doesn't want to be torn out of the industry.
I find the religion angle to be very accurate. But i thought of this as a possible dual meaning hidden within the obvious messages.
Your grammar isn't bad, so I'm going to assume you're not stupid. However, you obviously have never felt the depths of pain that this man was going through when he created this music for the first time.
Your grammar isn't bad, so I'm going to assume you're not stupid. However, you obviously have never felt the depths of pain that this man was going through when he created this music for the first time.
He was dying and God did the same thing God always does: nothing. No matter what he tried to accomplish, no matter how hard he tried, or how moral he acted, he still lost everything. He still got to feel so hopeless, and the only path he could find out of that hopelessness was anger. Tears of fear rip through him as he proclaims God non-existent. That's the only thing he can believe to save his life: If I'm in this much pain, how can there be a God?
I have felt this, as I'm sure many people have... and it has nothing to do with money. A man doesn't write a song as powerful as this for something so meaningless as a bunch of greedy fools taking money from other, more artistically creative, greedy fools. This system functions well enough to get this music to us, it does not warrant that level of fear and pain. It does not define the world's misery. God does.
@wordbarber true that the influence and upbringing with "god" can mess you up pretty bad, but I feel all artists can get in a very bad place yes spiritually and that takes a toll on "sanity" whatever that means ha ha :) but emotionally and physically I do see the comparison to the company and noting the worker ant thing he said, its true, if you haven't seen the film "Barton Fink" it will show both similarities of both God AND the music industry or any art industry (in the film in was movie writing) and this theory to terrible...
@wordbarber true that the influence and upbringing with "god" can mess you up pretty bad, but I feel all artists can get in a very bad place yes spiritually and that takes a toll on "sanity" whatever that means ha ha :) but emotionally and physically I do see the comparison to the company and noting the worker ant thing he said, its true, if you haven't seen the film "Barton Fink" it will show both similarities of both God AND the music industry or any art industry (in the film in was movie writing) and this theory to terrible lie is compounded by the song "happiness in slavery" sorry I skipped a point on the physical and emotional aspect, when you are a creative person you are already very weary of control, because art can be interpreted and used in soo many ways that can be very negative, which is not why artist do art in the first place (mostly)...this loss of control can also be disheartening for someone who is only gifted in art, it feels like a curse...plus Trent is known to try and maintain control over his work thats why his first album was done all by himself...And that very much so can lead to fear and pain, because most people that can create are living on the edge of existence in my opinion, ghosts (ha ha) really so imagine the fear and pain of an artist living on the street or not being able to hold a job due to mental illness or being a victim of drug addiction/abuse. I tell you from experience the pain of not having a place to go and the fear of merely trying to survive in a place soo designed for people to follow the system and people soo afraid to lose that system would kill off somebody else stuck in a hard place just so they can live in a dream like matrix that does nothing to develop a healthy human being.