This story ties into Goethe's Faust nicely IMO. Faust is searching for happiness his whole life, and resorts to selling his sole to the devil (Mephistopheles) if the devil can lead him to happiness. Happiness only truly comes, however, when he dies and realizes just how beautiful life actually was. His sole is pardoned and sent to heaven due to the fact he tried so hard to find the happiness he desired. The story ends there, but as he dies and slips into the unknown (I picture this is how Thom see's it) you can imagine that he, for the first time, was not worried at all about what the future had in store because he had no control over his future. He had only his last moments in his present state of human existence in which his life flashed before his eyes and he realized just how beautiful his life and everything in it was. Today has been the most perfect day I've ever seen.
@OptimisticKidA This mixed with suicidial ideation in my opinion... but this GOETHE'S FAUST is definitely the soul root of this song. Great observation.
@OptimisticKidA This mixed with suicidial ideation in my opinion... but this GOETHE'S FAUST is definitely the soul root of this song. Great observation.
This story ties into Goethe's Faust nicely IMO. Faust is searching for happiness his whole life, and resorts to selling his sole to the devil (Mephistopheles) if the devil can lead him to happiness. Happiness only truly comes, however, when he dies and realizes just how beautiful life actually was. His sole is pardoned and sent to heaven due to the fact he tried so hard to find the happiness he desired. The story ends there, but as he dies and slips into the unknown (I picture this is how Thom see's it) you can imagine that he, for the first time, was not worried at all about what the future had in store because he had no control over his future. He had only his last moments in his present state of human existence in which his life flashed before his eyes and he realized just how beautiful his life and everything in it was. Today has been the most perfect day I've ever seen.
And this is on an album with a song called Faust Arp...
And this is on an album with a song called Faust Arp...
@OptimisticKidA This mixed with suicidial ideation in my opinion... but this GOETHE'S FAUST is definitely the soul root of this song. Great observation.
@OptimisticKidA This mixed with suicidial ideation in my opinion... but this GOETHE'S FAUST is definitely the soul root of this song. Great observation.