Songs Written About Enlightenment

[RendHeaven]

"The Unanswered Question" By Charles Ives (1908).

I interpret this music as representing Reality: Man, God; All of it. It's as Meta as it gets. It blows me away that such profundity can be communicated without any spoken word.

(Do note that there are many other interpretations of this work. Such is the beauty of art. Nonetheless, Ives himself has given us some hints on how to interpret this, as we'll see below.)

 

The following excerpt is from Wikipedia:

Ives provided a short text by which to interpret the work, giving it a narrative as in program music. Throughout the piece the strings sustain slow tonal triads that, according to Ives, represent "The Silence of the Druids — who Know, See and Hear Nothing". Against this background, the trumpet poses a nontonal phrase — "The Perennial Question of Existence" — seven times, to which the woodwinds "answer" the first six times in an increasingly erratic way. Ives wrote that the woodwinds' answers represented "Fighting Answerers" who, after a time, "realize a futility and begin to mock 'The Question'" before finally disappearing, leaving "The Question" to be asked once more before "The Silences" are left to their "Undisturbed Solitude". The piece ends with the strings "humming softly in the distance, like the eternal music of the spheres."

 

I consider the woodwinds to be the mind of Man, frantic to answer the "Perennial Question of Existence": Why is there something rather than nothing? Who or What am I?

The small army of woodwinds each have conflicting answers, making a meaningless mess of noise. Who's answer are we to trust?

The question itself is fascinating, posed by a solo trumpet. It is "nontonal," which roughly speaking, just means that it doesn't make musical sense. Isn't that incredible? THE PERENNIAL QUESTION OF EXISTENCE is represented as nonsense! (e.g. unintelligible, absurd) 

By the end, the mind (aka the woodwinds) realizes that there are no "external answers" to this most intimate question, and they cease to answer. They've finally "let go."

The meaningless question rings out one last time, but all that remains is the strings, or "The Silence of the Druids who Know, See and Hear Nothing." This is like Absolute Nonduality, completely void yet perfect, All-consuming and Eternal.

The whole of the piece represents the collision and eventual collapse into unity of the confused seeker and God.

If you listen to it enough you may cry.

[Loving Radiance]

I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time can not erase

When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me

You used to captivate me by your resonating light
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away all the sanity in me

These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time can not erase

When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears
And I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me

I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along

When you cried, I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream, I'd fight away all of your fears
I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me
Me, me

 

[Now I get why all songs are about love.]

[StudentOfLeove]

 

Enjoy this fire! ♡ :*

[Guest EmptyVase]

This song always makes me want to cry to the beautiful, mysterious nature of reality.

Lyrics:

[Verse 1]
Disembodied voices deepen my
Suspicious tendencies
Conversations we've never had
Imagined interplay

[Chorus]
Psychopathy
Don't you dare point that at me

[Verse 2]
Heated altercations we've never had
So I'm told, yet guided by them all
Every single one

[Chorus]
Psychopathy
Misleading me over and over and over

[Verse 3]
Judge, condemn, and banish any and everyone
Without evidence
Only the whispers from within

[Chorus]
Psychopathy
Misleading me over and over
Psychopathy
Misleading me over and over and over

[Interlude]
Imaginal interplay
Imaginal interplay
Imaginal interplay

[Refrain]
Don't you dare point that at me
Don't you dare point that at me

[Instrumental Interlude]

[Refrain]
Don't you dare point that at me
Don't you dare point that at

[Instrumental Interlude]

[Refrain]
Don't you dare point that at me
Don't you dare, don't you dare
Don't you dare point that at
Don't you dare, don't you dare
Don't you dare point that at

 

 

[xxxx]

Lean on Me, Bill Withers

 

[Guest SirVladimir]

You taught me the courage of stars before you left
How light carries on endlessly even after death
With shortness of breath, you explained the infinite
How rare and beautiful it is to even exist

I couldn't help but ask
For you to say it all again
I tried to write it down
But I could never find a pen
I'd give anything to hear
You say it one more time
That the universe was made
Just to be seen by my eyes

I couldn't help but ask
For you to say it all again
I tried to write it down
But I could never find a pen
I'd give anything to hear
You say it one more time
That the universe was made
Just to be seen by my eyes

With shortness of breath, I'll explain the infinite
How rare and beautiful it truly is that we exist.

Edited December 4, 2020 by SirVladimir

[allislove]

Here I am, rock you like a hurricane ?

[Mason Riggle]

People say I'm crazy
Doing what I'm doing
Well, they give me all kinds of warnings
To save me from ruin
When I say that I'm okay, well they look at me kinda strange
"Surely, you're not happy now, you no longer play the game"

People say I'm lazy
Dreaming my life away
Well they give me all kinds of advice
Designed to enlighten me
When I tell them that I'm doing fine watching shadows on the wall
"Don't you miss the big time boy, you're no longer on the ball?"

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round
I just had to let it go

Ah, people ask me questions
Lost in confusion
Well, I tell them there's no problem
Only solutions
Well, they shake their heads and they look at me, as if I've lost my mind
I tell them there's no hurry, I'm just sitting here doing time

I'm just sitting here watching the wheels go round and round
I really love to watch them roll
No longer riding on the merry-go-round

I just had to let it go
I just had to let it go
I just had to let it go

- John Lennon
 

 

[zeroISinfinity]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Dodo]

 

Everybody, everybody in the house of love
Everybody, everybody in the house of love
Everybody, everybody in the house of love
Everybody, one love, one God

Everybody in the house of love
Everybody in the house of love
Everybody in the house of love
One love, one God
Everybody in the house of love

We got to stop the pain and put the the wars on hold
Let the power of love inside the soul unfold
Free the mind, let it rise above
We've gotta change this world into a world of love

Mother Earth, she's on overload
One more war and she might explode
We got to look back and see a love from the past
We got time to change it but it's running out fast
(Out fast)

Not bothered about your color
Concerned about your creed
In the house of love, everybody's free

Not bothered about your color
Concerned about your creed
In the house of love, everybody's free

Everybody in the house of love
Everybody in the house of love
One love, one God
Everybody in the house of love

Everybody in the house of love
Everybody in the house of love
One love, one God
Everybody in the house of love

How many more tears must she cry?
How many more fears must be felt inside?
Before we realize we've gone too far
The creator created, we tore apart

Love can guide us back on the right road
Gotta save the planet before she explodes
We gotta love our mother, gotta let her know
Boom, boom, before she blows

Not bothered about religion
Not bothered about belief
In the house of love, everybody's free

Not bothered about religion
Not bothered about belief
In the house of love, everybody's free

Everybody in the house of love
Everybody in the house of love
One love, one God
Everybody in the house of love

Everybody in the house of love
Everybody in the house of love
One love, one God
Everybody in the house of love

Born to live, we live to die
Our eyes can't see, they can only cry
But our mother's tired of crying, she's had enough
She's gotta surely blow 'cause we're giving up

Build the house of love while we've got the time
Too many bombs in the world, it's like a living mine
The house of love is what we must build
The past won't last if the present is killed

Not bothered about your color
Concerned about your creed
In the house of love, everybody's free

Not bothered about your color
Concerned about your creed
In the house of love, everybody's free

Everybody in the house of love
Everybody in the house of love
One love, one God
Everybody in the house of love

Everybody in the house of love
Everybody in the house of love
One love, one God
Everybody in the house of love

Everybody in the house of love
Everybody in the house of love
One love, one God
Everybody in the house of love

Everybody in the house of love
Everybody in the house of love
One love, one God
Everybody in the house of love

Everybody in the house of love
Everybody in the house of love
Everybody in the house of love
Everybody in the house of love

Everybody in the house of love
Everybody in the house of love
Everybody in the house of love
Everybody in the house of love

Everybody in the house of love
Everybody in the house of love
One love, one God
Everybody in the house of love

Everybody in the house of love
Everybody in the house of love
Come on now, free your soul
Everybody in the house of

[electroBeam]

Probably already posted, but just incase it hasn't been:

Come up to meet you, tell you I'm sorry
You don't know how lovely you are
I had to find you, tell you I need you

Tell you I set you apart
Tell me your secrets and ask me your questions
Oh, let's go back to the start

Running in circles, coming up tails
Heads on a science apart
Nobody said it was easy

It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard

Oh, take me back to the start
I was just guessing at numbers and figures
Pulling the puzzles apart
Questions of science, science and progress

Do not speak as loud as my heart

But tell me you love me, come back and haunt me
Oh and I rush to the start
Running in circles, chasing our tails

Coming back as we are
Nobody said it was easy
Oh, it's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be so hard
I'm going back to the start
Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Ah ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Oh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh

[gettoefl]

 

 

[Nahm]

 

[zeroISinfinity]

Gd Jed and his temperament.Lets calm him down. 

 

 

[Nahm]

 

[Dodo]

 

[Nahm]

Another profundity for no one. 

 

[WaveInTheOcean]

 

[IamMystic]

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