Solaris
09-23-2006, 05:23 AM
I finally found sense in the Third eye lyrics: The song is about the meaning of life.
Let's look at it:
The Intro: I think it's only saying that many people are trying to find a meaning in their stupid lives and take drugs.
1.: "Dreaming of that face again. It's bright and blue and shimmering. Grinning wide and comforting me with it's three warm and wild eyes. On my back and tumbeling down that hole and back again rising up and wiping the webs and the dew from my withered eye."
The protagonist of the song dreams the same weird dream again and again and tries to open his third eye and find the meaning of the dream with it's help.
2.: "A child rhyme stuck in my head. It said that life is but a dream. Spent so many years in question. To find I've known this all along"
Instead of finding the meaning of his dream, he recognizes that life itself is just a meaningless dream.
3.: "So good to see you, I've missed you so much. So glad it's over. I've missed you so much. Came out to watch you play. Why are you running?"
He doesn't dream of the face anymore (His dream is running away) and so he tries to find a meaning for life in something other.
4.: "Shrouding all the ground around me is this holy crow above me. Black as holes within a memory and blue as our new second sun. I stick my hand into his shadow to pull the pieces from the sand which I attempt to reassemble to see just who I might have been. I do not recognize the vessel but the eyes seem so familiar like phosphorescent desert buttons singing one familiar song."
He now tries to find meaning in religion (the holy crow). But the "black holes" within his memory penetrate his mind and so he recognizes that the meaning of life isn't in religion. He gets out of religion and tries to find his lost memory and get back his dream.
5.: "So good to see you. I've missed you so much. So glad it's over. I've missed you so much. Came out to watch you play. Why are you running away? Prying open my third eye."
He finally finds his lost memory and tries again to open his third eye.
6.: "So good to see you once again. I thought that you were hiding. You thought that I had run away chasing the tail of dogma. I've opened my eye and there we were. So good to see you once again. I thought that you were hiding from me. You thought that I had run away, chasing a trail of smoke and reason. Prying open my third eye."
He's happy to dream of the face again and tries to find the meaning in the dream again instead of religion.
That's my opinion. For me, the message of the song is clear: Find the meaning of life for yourself and don't let anyone other tell you how to find it.
Let's look at it:
The Intro: I think it's only saying that many people are trying to find a meaning in their stupid lives and take drugs.
1.: "Dreaming of that face again. It's bright and blue and shimmering. Grinning wide and comforting me with it's three warm and wild eyes. On my back and tumbeling down that hole and back again rising up and wiping the webs and the dew from my withered eye."
The protagonist of the song dreams the same weird dream again and again and tries to open his third eye and find the meaning of the dream with it's help.
2.: "A child rhyme stuck in my head. It said that life is but a dream. Spent so many years in question. To find I've known this all along"
Instead of finding the meaning of his dream, he recognizes that life itself is just a meaningless dream.
3.: "So good to see you, I've missed you so much. So glad it's over. I've missed you so much. Came out to watch you play. Why are you running?"
He doesn't dream of the face anymore (His dream is running away) and so he tries to find a meaning for life in something other.
4.: "Shrouding all the ground around me is this holy crow above me. Black as holes within a memory and blue as our new second sun. I stick my hand into his shadow to pull the pieces from the sand which I attempt to reassemble to see just who I might have been. I do not recognize the vessel but the eyes seem so familiar like phosphorescent desert buttons singing one familiar song."
He now tries to find meaning in religion (the holy crow). But the "black holes" within his memory penetrate his mind and so he recognizes that the meaning of life isn't in religion. He gets out of religion and tries to find his lost memory and get back his dream.
5.: "So good to see you. I've missed you so much. So glad it's over. I've missed you so much. Came out to watch you play. Why are you running away? Prying open my third eye."
He finally finds his lost memory and tries again to open his third eye.
6.: "So good to see you once again. I thought that you were hiding. You thought that I had run away chasing the tail of dogma. I've opened my eye and there we were. So good to see you once again. I thought that you were hiding from me. You thought that I had run away, chasing a trail of smoke and reason. Prying open my third eye."
He's happy to dream of the face again and tries to find the meaning in the dream again instead of religion.
That's my opinion. For me, the message of the song is clear: Find the meaning of life for yourself and don't let anyone other tell you how to find it.