Lyrical Interpretation: Throwing Copper Options

[Distance to Me]

Alright, I'm gonna start off by saying I'm sort of a lyrical nerd, I love me some lyrics and I love interpreting them. In fact, Ed has inspired me to writing poetry, which I've finished in the top 10 in some national contests for, and eventually I got around to pulling together a band which I sing, play guitar, and write for (I suck at singing though).

Anyway, basically just write down what a song means to you, whether it's through the lyrics or through the music. I could drone on and on about a song like They Stood Up For Love, so I'll try to contain myself.

[Wambangalang]

TDAOC: less about murder and more about our inability to overcome the various traps of psychological conditioning. "When all thats left to do is reflect on whats been done..". ed is using the metaphore of a dam to illustrate how the mechanism of thought - being memory - is the barrier between inward pain and freedom. You really have to have read some of krishnamurti's work to know exactly where ed is comming from with most of the older live stuff.

STD: Same here. Mankind repeats all of his mistakes generation after generation. The brain wants security and continuity so it seeks and it finds. But it does not find that which is the actual, rather it finds acording to its own particular desire. It escapes into nationalism or religion, or clings to the illusion that it is american, or catholic or muslim or a communist. The entire history of mankind is in you, You are the world, literally. Hence; "I know, I've been here before"

im tired but i will say i really think all over you is just about a guy who pays a hooker so he can blow all over her and vice versa. Pay me now, lay me down bitch