We Are Free Men
Embracing Ephemeral: A Journey Beyond Choices
Lyrics
Well, the future spills its intangibles
Refers to the unpredictable nature of the future, filled with abstract possibilities.
An unknown set of variables
Highlights the presence of unknown factors influencing outcomes.
A path that split infinitely up ahead
Describes a diverging path with infinite possibilities lying ahead.
So tell me what's the use to pick and choose
Questions the value of decision-making when faced with numerous options.
From what you should or shouldn't do?
Challenges the notions of shoulds and shouldn'ts in life choices.
That's time spent better sleeping in your bed
Suggests that time spent sleeping may be more valuable than overthinking choices.
Or wide awake in a shopping mall
Contrasts the idea of relaxation (bed) with the busyness of a shopping mall.
Trying clothes on from off of the wall
Describes trying on different roles or identities like trying on clothes.
Yeah, anything to entertain yourself
Emphasizes the lengths people go to for self-entertainment.
Because a costume can be comfortable
Suggests that wearing a metaphorical costume can bring comfort.
It can make you feel more beautiful
Explores how a costume can enhance one's perceived beauty.
It can even make you look like someone else
Acknowledges the transformative power of costumes in altering appearance.
But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do
Recognizes that even with a disguise, one's true self remains unchanged.
Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always is
Compares a bad habit to a persistent, unshakeable presence.
And it's nothing that no doctor's going to fix
Asserts that certain issues can't be fixed by conventional means.
They pat your back bruised with their accolades
Describes receiving recognition (accolades) that leaves emotional scars.
And all four walls are a trophy case
Depicts success represented as a trophy case within confined walls.
But that doesn't make it any less of a cage
Comments on the paradox of success feeling like a cage.
But you can make it all less difficult
Encourages embracing the temporary and fleeting nature of life's experiences.
By embracing the ephemeral
Suggests that understanding impermanence can ease life's challenges.
Then you'd never have to worry or explain
Proposes that accepting the physical nature of life eliminates the need for explanation.
Because if it's really all just physical
Questions the significance of memories if everything is purely physical.
Then my memory's immaterial
Philosophizes on the immaterial nature of memory.
So why then do I remember you at all?
Raises a question about remembering someone despite the immateriality of memory.
But I do, I do, my friend, I've seen your face
Confirms the speaker's recollection of the friend's face and shared experiences.
We shared a cup, I know the taste
Recalls a shared moment of intimacy and connection.
Its sweetness is relentless on my lips
Describes the lingering sweetness of the shared experience.
So help me drink in everything that is
Expresses a desire to fully experience and absorb every aspect of life.
Like a freed convict, drunk on redemption
Compares the speaker's state to that of a liberated ex-convict enjoying redemption.
From the way I've been
Reflects on the speaker's past and the need for personal transformation.
But I swear this time that things will be different
Commits to a positive change in the speaker's life.
Well, right and wrong, they have never been that far apart
States that right and wrong are closely related.
For those who'd write that sentence where you hang
References consequences (hanging) for those who define moral boundaries.
We will be lifted up from all of this
Expresses hope for transcendence from life's challenges.
Yeah, we will transcend the insignificance of our existence
Aspires to rise above the seeming insignificance of human existence.
Yeah, your body's gone, but angel, you will live
Believes in the enduring nature of the soul despite physical death.
Yeah your body's gone
Repeats the affirmation of the soul's continued existence after physical death.
Now your body's gone
-Now your body's gone
-Now your body's gone
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-Now your body's gone
-Now your body's gone
-Now your body's gone
-Now your body's gone
-Now your body's gone
-Now your body's gone
-Now your body's gone
-Now your body's gone
-Now your body's gone
-Now your body's gone, but angel, you will live
Concludes with the belief that the departed will live on as an angel.
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