What if all the world you think you know Is an elaborate dream? And if you look at your reflection Is it all you want it to be? What if you could look right through the cracks? Would you find yourself Find yourself afraid to see? Your devils and your gods All the living and the dead And you're really all alone?
You can live in this illusion You can choose to believe You keep looking but you can't find the woods While you're hiding in the trees [Chorus 2] What if everything around you Isn't quite as it seems? What if all the world you used to know Is an elaborate dream? I would assume Trent is rather introverted When you live so much of your life in your head, and spend so much time alone, and there's so much about yourself that no one else knows but yourself, sometimes you can't help but wonder It's a feeling that's very difficult to put into words, but, of course, Trent can.
CounterfeitSaint on April 27, Link. No Replies Log in to reply. General Comment Very depressing song, but very existentially deep, definitely worthy of listening to, its actually become one of my favorite songs. The animal in the cage you have built is the person you chose to craft for yourself.
A cage is safety. That is most likely not the first way you think of the word cage, you probably think imprisonment. Take the next words of the song, addressing the life you have built for yourself and the hollowness you feel inside. This is him explaining the animal in his cage to you.
The hollowness a caged animal feels, is, fucked up as it is, right where it belongs. How could it feel anything but hollowness, it's been distanced from all but itself. The tragedy with us is we put ourselves in the cage, not only willingly, but happily, desperately.
Too willing to trade everything for the safety of a useless, empty existence. You can't see the forest for the trees while all you're aware of is the tree you've locked yourself in. When you look at yourself in the mirror, is it all you want to be? Are you content to stop growing and learning and developing? Are you okay with being a two dimensional image?
Not a competent sentient being, just a useless image of one. The spiritual parts of the song dealing with existence strikingly remind me of 'The Mysterious Stranger' by Mark Twain. His assertion in this short story is that really, the ultimate end to all that exists is your consciousness.
Its not really just yours, as in, everybody you know is in your head, but rather, everyone that you know is also a piece of what you are a piece of. They are all you and you are all of them. Together you make up the universe, one total consciousness, experiencing itself subjectively through many different lenses. All of reality is just an elaborate dream, nothing exists save you, and empty space.
The universe, and all else that might exist beside it, is your beautiful dream, and you can change it at anytime. All you have to do is wake up. Tunes24 on May 10, Link. Think you pretty much nailed.
I always looked at the security aspects of it to refer to religion, personally, or the government i. While you're hiding in the trees" is about how all you see is illusion; religion, government, etc.. This song is almost begging us to take a closer look, to step back from our own "safe and secure" perspective, to voluntarily place ourselves in a more vulnerable state so that we can gather TRUE meaning in our lives, not depend on external things to give us that i.
Nice Twain reference. This album came out the year I graduated high school and this song became a personal "anthem" of sorts for graduation. Thinking about everyone and everything I was leaving behind, and where I was headed next, and how different everything would be in very unexpected ways i.
Androgyne on May 10, General Comment nad now the album has leeked. Phooky on April 15, Link. General Comment I think tis song is about living in your own Reality and not seeing things the way they really are And being afraid to he how you really are. The lyrics are straight forward but Trent's voice is soft and mellow through the song so the song plays more on your emotions that's if your really listening This is one of the few songs that brings tears to my eyes.
General Comment The true meaning of this song is not possible to understand unless you are on the same thought wavelength as trents. This song is very literal. The world you know is an illusion. It's all empty. Getting Smaller 6. Home 7. Home Non-LP Version 8. Love Is Not Enough 9. Only Right Where It Belongs Right Where It Belongs Version 2 Sunspots The Collector The Hand That Feeds The Line Begins to Blur With Teeth You Know What You Are? Cheeeek that out dude.
Lead RIFFs:. What if all the world you used to know Is an elaborate dream? And if you look at your reflection Is it all you want to be?
What if you could look right through the cracks Would you find yourself Olisitko sitten kauhuissasi? Et si tu regardes ton reflet, Est-il tout ce que tu voudrais qu'il soit?
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