Post by paintweather on Aug 13, 2012 23:25:48 GMT -5
I remembered a really long explanation of the lyrics for Trippin' the Life Fantastic that brian posted a long time ago on myspace. I went digging and found it, for your reading pleasure:
September 20, 2008
Three years ago, When I Said "I was born in a Swamp" What I meant was, "I was born in a pool of semen." I said swamp because it wouldn't be appropriate to say semen. You can't say semen on mtv after all hehe. LoLz. :-P.
When I Said, "I was born without clothes on" you should know what i mean.
Then i said, "I broke off and became something breathing." This is basically talking about the instant that i ceased to be a part of the inanimate nothingness and became an animated something. This is a kind of confusing part of existence, how did we really get started here? before we were even sperms...? we were just a clump of protein i guess. i dont really know, someone who has gone to college for this sort of thing should post back and help me understand that.
Next I Said, "I was fast, there were packs I was leading." So here... i've become a sperm and now i am headed towards the egg with my little sperm brothers, but i am the strongest and the fastest of all of them and i reach the egg before them. Epic win! This is a nice thought. When i thought this up, it made me happy. Even though we might not always feel like we're good at things or that we fail more than we succeed, we should remember that there were hundreds of millions of other animals that we conquered before we were even born.
on a side note, i just looked up how many sperm there are in a single ejaculation and i found this piece of information:
The average sperm count fell from 113 million sperm/ml of semen in 1940 to 66 million/ml in 1990. The volume of a single ejaculate has declined from 3.40 ml to 2.75 ml. This means that men on average are now ejaculating less than half the number of sperm as men did 50 yrs ago. A drop from more than 380 million sperm to about 180 million sperm per ejaculate. Furthermore, the number of motile sperm has also dipped. Importantly, the sperm count has not declined in the less polluted areas of the world during the same time period.
Pollution is changing our bodies... not to mention choking our planet to death. I liked it better when we worried that we were destroying the planet, rather than just warming it up. Shit man, i likes it hotter anyways. Recycle bitches. Just kidding. But seriously, you should recycle and not litter and ride a bike. I continue:
"Tripped out, The Devil spoke to me through my finger tips, which were in the ground, the same beneath you now, which means I'm alive, which means I'm not dead."
We've gotten myspace messages from people accusing me of being a satanist which is a pretty radical rumor to have about yourself but it aint true. this is what people who speak to the devil really look like:
vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1525446
The devil didn't actually speak to me.... I was just... high. The type of high where you think you're having a revelation. "I'm like... Alive right now. How Trippy." I am the kind of person who took a lot of... things for granted, even simple things, like having a loving family and living in America. I grew up extremely privileged and didn't have to work for anything, So this was kind of me realizing that i had taken the fact that i was alive advantage. Just ask those millions of sperms who didn't make it. They would like to be where you are right now, no matter how shitty you may think you have it. I mean, they're not really conscious, so they don't really "want" anything. This is a pretty touchy subject now that i'm writing and explaining it. For the record, I am completely pro-choice and i think that people that call themselves pro-life should probably call themselves ANTI-choice, just like they think i should call myself anti-LIFE, but really I am pro-life like everybody else on earth. Cept for the suicidal and murderers. Unless you killed someone because you were in the army. But not if you were in the wrong army and killed an American. And I guess it doesn't count if you killed yourself for a reason. But not if that reason involved the Twin Towers.... More song explanation.
"This God of your Holy Books, I do not agree with him." The important thing here is that I said "...of your Holy Books." Specifically, i meant the Father-God of the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish religions, the one who smites some with fire and brimstone, damns others to hell, and expects all to follow him blindly without a single appearance to a group of humans. Don't you question why he chose to speak to his prophets in their heads or while they were in the mountains alone? I guess I just have a tendency to not trust people, especially when they are making grandiose claims about being the son of God (how can you be the son of something that isn't human?) or claiming that God sent them a list of rules. Moses got tired of not having a voice and had to claim that God gave him the rules so that people would listen. I don't blame him. Not having a voice is kind of what sucks most about life and is really why I started playing music in the first place. So listen up! Just kidding. You probably already stopped reading this. But i continue anyways.
"I will not be one more servant, I will not bow to anything, not a puff of smoke or the flash of a turning mirror." I can't stand the fact that there is a Hierarchal system in place today, i'm not going to keep it going after i die. There is a way to exist without having some at the top and most at the bottom. Its just that the people at the top don't want you to realize this because if we learned how to change to a more equal system that was corruption-proof, there would be a revolution tomorrow. Our proper evolution is being halted by a bunch of old white people who want to have the most cake. Think about how silly they will feel when the aliens arrive and their money is exposed as meaningless paper. But let's not just wait for the aliens, let's expose it now and work to fix it. Can we really feel safe bringing children into the world when we know that they will be slaves to debt and the American culturefuck? Turn on the TV. Culturefuck. Smoke and mirrors. But the smoke and mirrors I referred to in the song were actually the tricks and supposed miracles of all the prophets. They were just the best magicians of the age. I hope it doesn't come off like I am trying to convert people to turn against their religions. I'm just making my brain processes available to interested people. That is all. There is really no hidden agenda behind this.
"Let's talk about your real fears, like that you might actually be all alone, no happy heavenly home" I don't know if this is true of others, but when i was young i was very convinced that there actually was a heaven and it was really one of my greatest fears that it might not be true. I imagine that the people who do believe in it have the same sort of doubt from time to time, but don't want to talk about it. Secrets are bad for your teeth.
"No happy heavenly home to return to God, dispenser of Judgmental pencil shavings, he's got baggies full for you, but i've got a planet packed with proof" This is talking about how it sucks to not only have a bunch of peers and superiors judging you throughout your life but in addition there is an Ultimate Judge who watches you your ENTIRE existence and then hurls it all back at you the moment you die. The pencil shavings are a tiny object which should be placed in the trash, not back into your face. but yeah baggies of pencil shavings do look a bit like weed. I'm sure subconsciously there is some connection there. the planet is packed with proof that God is a player-hater. Which means we are the players. Which implies this must be a game. Which presupposes... maybe he didn't?
"To understand, to comprehend, to be together, we must spend time alone" This is for everyone out there who does believe in a God and gets comfort from it and does not give a fuck what I think. You can all think of my rejection of religion as my time alone. If you don't want to think about this lyric that way, then take it literally. You must find someway to be alone to really feel union with another. You can't just have all the good your whole life or else you wouldn't know what good is. This is what it really means when people say "bad things happen for a reason." Bad things don't really happen for a reason, they happen so that we can know when something good happens and appreciate it. Until we can reach the point where we realize bad and good are both illusions and we should take events as simply events without a good-bad dualistic bias.
"And i am the only thing that's controlling my functions, my habits and hands" someone has this tattooed on their body so i feel really weird about explaining it any more in depth for fear that it would change something about it for him and thus, change something that is unchangeable, that would bum me out if i got a lyric tattooed and then found out it was secretly about my fav band's hooker fetish, oh shit i gave it away
"And i'm alone in the vastness, hollow vacuum" This is an homage to the late, great At the Drive-In, without whom Weatherbox would probably sound a lot lamer. their lyric is "neutered is the vastness, hollow vacuum, check the oxygen tank" from their single one armed scissor on relationship of command. if you don't have this record, you are off the team. Way a-head of you, buddy.
"I take my chances." I wish i didn't take chances, but i did and i do. My advice to you is look before you leap. even if what you're looking at isn't what you want to see. Not saying don't leap, just saying look deep down there real hard first. That's probably confusing but i am still confused by that lyric, so its appropriate. Skadoosh.
"And i am holding all my horses tight" I wish i had held my horses tighter. Remember you are the field, the horses are just passing through. Focus on the field. Yourself. The box. Not the weather. The horses. Horses pass, fields stay put. This is the right understanding.
"We've become breathlessly Dark, and we're coming up for light" This was sort of a reference to the time i spent in My American Heart, which was kind of a dark time for me. Not on the surface, i got along with the dudes great and had a fun time, but i was really doing it for the wrong reasons and had to convince myself every morning to keep going against what I knew, Weatherbox was the light at the end of the tunnel and i escaped that black iron prison and found the honey-goodness... then things got weird. but thats another blog.
OH YEAAAAAH
I HAVE COBWEBS FOR MAPS, I'M WALKING IN CIRCLES AGAIN
this basically means that i talk like a fag and my shits all retarded
i'd like to thank God, my Mom (happy birthday) and my girlfriend and sister for pestering me all night to use photoshop.
THIS IS MY ADMISSION TO THE WORLD THAT I AM INDEED VERY STRANGE. NO PART OF ME IS ANY TYPE OF ROCKSTAR. NO MATTER HOW SWEET I LOOK WITH A NOSE RING. i love you all. good night and good luck.
September 20, 2008
Three years ago, When I Said "I was born in a Swamp" What I meant was, "I was born in a pool of semen." I said swamp because it wouldn't be appropriate to say semen. You can't say semen on mtv after all hehe. LoLz. :-P.
When I Said, "I was born without clothes on" you should know what i mean.
Then i said, "I broke off and became something breathing." This is basically talking about the instant that i ceased to be a part of the inanimate nothingness and became an animated something. This is a kind of confusing part of existence, how did we really get started here? before we were even sperms...? we were just a clump of protein i guess. i dont really know, someone who has gone to college for this sort of thing should post back and help me understand that.
Next I Said, "I was fast, there were packs I was leading." So here... i've become a sperm and now i am headed towards the egg with my little sperm brothers, but i am the strongest and the fastest of all of them and i reach the egg before them. Epic win! This is a nice thought. When i thought this up, it made me happy. Even though we might not always feel like we're good at things or that we fail more than we succeed, we should remember that there were hundreds of millions of other animals that we conquered before we were even born.
on a side note, i just looked up how many sperm there are in a single ejaculation and i found this piece of information:
The average sperm count fell from 113 million sperm/ml of semen in 1940 to 66 million/ml in 1990. The volume of a single ejaculate has declined from 3.40 ml to 2.75 ml. This means that men on average are now ejaculating less than half the number of sperm as men did 50 yrs ago. A drop from more than 380 million sperm to about 180 million sperm per ejaculate. Furthermore, the number of motile sperm has also dipped. Importantly, the sperm count has not declined in the less polluted areas of the world during the same time period.
Pollution is changing our bodies... not to mention choking our planet to death. I liked it better when we worried that we were destroying the planet, rather than just warming it up. Shit man, i likes it hotter anyways. Recycle bitches. Just kidding. But seriously, you should recycle and not litter and ride a bike. I continue:
"Tripped out, The Devil spoke to me through my finger tips, which were in the ground, the same beneath you now, which means I'm alive, which means I'm not dead."
We've gotten myspace messages from people accusing me of being a satanist which is a pretty radical rumor to have about yourself but it aint true. this is what people who speak to the devil really look like:
vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1525446
The devil didn't actually speak to me.... I was just... high. The type of high where you think you're having a revelation. "I'm like... Alive right now. How Trippy." I am the kind of person who took a lot of... things for granted, even simple things, like having a loving family and living in America. I grew up extremely privileged and didn't have to work for anything, So this was kind of me realizing that i had taken the fact that i was alive advantage. Just ask those millions of sperms who didn't make it. They would like to be where you are right now, no matter how shitty you may think you have it. I mean, they're not really conscious, so they don't really "want" anything. This is a pretty touchy subject now that i'm writing and explaining it. For the record, I am completely pro-choice and i think that people that call themselves pro-life should probably call themselves ANTI-choice, just like they think i should call myself anti-LIFE, but really I am pro-life like everybody else on earth. Cept for the suicidal and murderers. Unless you killed someone because you were in the army. But not if you were in the wrong army and killed an American. And I guess it doesn't count if you killed yourself for a reason. But not if that reason involved the Twin Towers.... More song explanation.
"This God of your Holy Books, I do not agree with him." The important thing here is that I said "...of your Holy Books." Specifically, i meant the Father-God of the Christian, Muslim, and Jewish religions, the one who smites some with fire and brimstone, damns others to hell, and expects all to follow him blindly without a single appearance to a group of humans. Don't you question why he chose to speak to his prophets in their heads or while they were in the mountains alone? I guess I just have a tendency to not trust people, especially when they are making grandiose claims about being the son of God (how can you be the son of something that isn't human?) or claiming that God sent them a list of rules. Moses got tired of not having a voice and had to claim that God gave him the rules so that people would listen. I don't blame him. Not having a voice is kind of what sucks most about life and is really why I started playing music in the first place. So listen up! Just kidding. You probably already stopped reading this. But i continue anyways.
"I will not be one more servant, I will not bow to anything, not a puff of smoke or the flash of a turning mirror." I can't stand the fact that there is a Hierarchal system in place today, i'm not going to keep it going after i die. There is a way to exist without having some at the top and most at the bottom. Its just that the people at the top don't want you to realize this because if we learned how to change to a more equal system that was corruption-proof, there would be a revolution tomorrow. Our proper evolution is being halted by a bunch of old white people who want to have the most cake. Think about how silly they will feel when the aliens arrive and their money is exposed as meaningless paper. But let's not just wait for the aliens, let's expose it now and work to fix it. Can we really feel safe bringing children into the world when we know that they will be slaves to debt and the American culturefuck? Turn on the TV. Culturefuck. Smoke and mirrors. But the smoke and mirrors I referred to in the song were actually the tricks and supposed miracles of all the prophets. They were just the best magicians of the age. I hope it doesn't come off like I am trying to convert people to turn against their religions. I'm just making my brain processes available to interested people. That is all. There is really no hidden agenda behind this.
"Let's talk about your real fears, like that you might actually be all alone, no happy heavenly home" I don't know if this is true of others, but when i was young i was very convinced that there actually was a heaven and it was really one of my greatest fears that it might not be true. I imagine that the people who do believe in it have the same sort of doubt from time to time, but don't want to talk about it. Secrets are bad for your teeth.
"No happy heavenly home to return to God, dispenser of Judgmental pencil shavings, he's got baggies full for you, but i've got a planet packed with proof" This is talking about how it sucks to not only have a bunch of peers and superiors judging you throughout your life but in addition there is an Ultimate Judge who watches you your ENTIRE existence and then hurls it all back at you the moment you die. The pencil shavings are a tiny object which should be placed in the trash, not back into your face. but yeah baggies of pencil shavings do look a bit like weed. I'm sure subconsciously there is some connection there. the planet is packed with proof that God is a player-hater. Which means we are the players. Which implies this must be a game. Which presupposes... maybe he didn't?
"To understand, to comprehend, to be together, we must spend time alone" This is for everyone out there who does believe in a God and gets comfort from it and does not give a fuck what I think. You can all think of my rejection of religion as my time alone. If you don't want to think about this lyric that way, then take it literally. You must find someway to be alone to really feel union with another. You can't just have all the good your whole life or else you wouldn't know what good is. This is what it really means when people say "bad things happen for a reason." Bad things don't really happen for a reason, they happen so that we can know when something good happens and appreciate it. Until we can reach the point where we realize bad and good are both illusions and we should take events as simply events without a good-bad dualistic bias.
"And i am the only thing that's controlling my functions, my habits and hands" someone has this tattooed on their body so i feel really weird about explaining it any more in depth for fear that it would change something about it for him and thus, change something that is unchangeable, that would bum me out if i got a lyric tattooed and then found out it was secretly about my fav band's hooker fetish, oh shit i gave it away
"And i'm alone in the vastness, hollow vacuum" This is an homage to the late, great At the Drive-In, without whom Weatherbox would probably sound a lot lamer. their lyric is "neutered is the vastness, hollow vacuum, check the oxygen tank" from their single one armed scissor on relationship of command. if you don't have this record, you are off the team. Way a-head of you, buddy.
"I take my chances." I wish i didn't take chances, but i did and i do. My advice to you is look before you leap. even if what you're looking at isn't what you want to see. Not saying don't leap, just saying look deep down there real hard first. That's probably confusing but i am still confused by that lyric, so its appropriate. Skadoosh.
"And i am holding all my horses tight" I wish i had held my horses tighter. Remember you are the field, the horses are just passing through. Focus on the field. Yourself. The box. Not the weather. The horses. Horses pass, fields stay put. This is the right understanding.
"We've become breathlessly Dark, and we're coming up for light" This was sort of a reference to the time i spent in My American Heart, which was kind of a dark time for me. Not on the surface, i got along with the dudes great and had a fun time, but i was really doing it for the wrong reasons and had to convince myself every morning to keep going against what I knew, Weatherbox was the light at the end of the tunnel and i escaped that black iron prison and found the honey-goodness... then things got weird. but thats another blog.
OH YEAAAAAH
I HAVE COBWEBS FOR MAPS, I'M WALKING IN CIRCLES AGAIN
this basically means that i talk like a fag and my shits all retarded
i'd like to thank God, my Mom (happy birthday) and my girlfriend and sister for pestering me all night to use photoshop.
THIS IS MY ADMISSION TO THE WORLD THAT I AM INDEED VERY STRANGE. NO PART OF ME IS ANY TYPE OF ROCKSTAR. NO MATTER HOW SWEET I LOOK WITH A NOSE RING. i love you all. good night and good luck.
