![]() and as your wading in the euphoric waters of the high, the current of addiction is opening up and already getting ready to swallow you into the inescapable clutches of the undertow im not a junkie but i know about the eupouric effects of a heroin high and how the high can make everything appear "twice as high as heaven" and the influence of the drug on decision making can be "twice as loud as reason". The imagery of the cold black water and the rich silt on the riverbed sounds like a description of black tar heroin. Suggests and beckons all while swallowing. The currents mouth below me opens up around me. "I've been struck dumb by a voice that speaks from deep, In a nutshell, YOU are what keeps my fire burning, or should I say, "you are fuel that sets my head on fire" You have to have an open mind to see these messages, or you will think that a song is about jesus faking his death, or a crazy man LITERALLY standing halfway in lake of water. Yes, everyone has their own opinion, but do you really? Is your opinion made solely from within, or do you think that you think the way that you do, or your process of thinking, was influenced somewhat by your prior experiences? first track on salival, you must be vulnerable, not in a way where you will be taken advantage of literally, but vulnerable enough to set aside old views and doubts and be openminded. There are certain things that you have to do in order to hear what the lyrics mean. Most of his songs are like a puzzle, you have to keep refering to another song to define a meaning. Into a dream within a dream." "It doesn't have to feel water"(-maynard's dick)Īnd I'm back on my knees."-he feels like this because he keeps going back to the emptiness. He is constantly using this analogy, the water, "i'm treading water" "the water will come and claim what is mine" "quicksand=water=the world" "almost like I'm swimming" "Seems like I've been here before. ![]() ![]() "shut up shut up" reminding himself that he does not want to follow that way anymore. It is a constant cycle of realizing that he does not want to live like that so he climbs to a new place, but he can only stay away so long before he finds himself back where he is comfortable, back to what he had always known. He continuously keeps falling into this old pattern because it is what he has always known, even though he does not choose that way, or should I say chosen that way. He speaks of this water, or this undertow which metaphorically is the world. The song undertow is one of my favorites because it expresses most of what he says in so many of his other songs, but instead much more direct. Let me just say that without you people not seeing anything that he stresses through his music, there would be nothing to talk about. essentially, it is saying that we will go no where without those who question what most are afraid to, and we will all 'die beneath the undertow' because we are all being swept along by the government and society and religious groups so much we are all but too far in to possibly escape it, and only those who dare will have to deal with the truth, to know, as the others float along in blissful ignorance. 'numb and insignificant' is an expression of being overwhelmed by this new truth he's discovered. The end bit, euphoria, is about how incredibly easy it is for people to fall into the patterns and behaviors that society and the government want you to, to follow accepted religion and question very little, how euphoric it is to be at ignorance with truth. The government tells you what to think and feel, media dictates what you want, parents and others already brainwashed and so giving you your opinions, some things have been so solidified that no one even questions society anymore, and that is what this song is expressing. It refers to maynard, knowing this, and trying to stay 'above water' so to speak(hence the lyircs, 'under a second/third time now), but he keeps getting pulled under again because its all aorund him. This song is not about drugs, it's not about an induced euphoria, it is about society and the 'undertow' it pulls you along with from the day you are born.
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