Top Rated Interpretation
2005-10-28 14:06:46
This song is about how people can lose their identities and become just like everyone else.
"Life is a waterfall, we're one in the river, one again after the fall." - We all start off the same and we all end up the same.
"Swimming through the void, we hear the words, we lose ourselves, but we find it all." - As we go through life we are told lessons, but we ignore them. We forget who we really are in the mix of seeking the synthetic lifestyle, and that's the price to lose who we really are.
"'Cause we are the ones that wanna play, always want to go, but you never want to stay." - We always want to be part of the scene. We strive for what we want and when we get it, it still does not satisfy.
"And we are the ones that want to choose, always wanna play, but you never wanna lose." - We want and want. We do whatever we can but if trouble is ever near we do whatever we can to maintain innocence.
"When you lose small mind you free your life." - When we stop to see the full picture is when we really have control of our lives.
"Life is a waterfall, we drink from the river then we turn around and put up our walls." - We take and take and in the end we give nothing. This shows how greedy, oblivious and inconsiderate people can be.
yulka
2008-07-11 22:43:42
You're all wrong.....and how can you say this song is about nothing? I know daron said at bdo 2002 but man, daron says a lot of things.....everything has it's meaning....even the most stupid thing....
i studied this song from years, and I can tell you my interetation of it:
this song is about humanity and how humanity destroys and disrespects everything on its way.....
Life is a waterfall
we´re one in the river
and one again after the fall
(it means that life is like falling water, it never stops until it founds bottom, and in that waterfall of life....we're all one...no differences, no nothing....we're all one)
swimming through the void
we hear the word
we lose ourselves
but we find it all
(it means that when we're in that great waterfall of life, we hear the advices of everyone, but we don't pay attention and lose ourselves, we find the right way at the end)
cause we are the ones that want to play
always want to go
but you never want to stay
and we are the ones that want to choose
always want to play
but you never want to lose
(in the first line "play" means we want to be better, we want to clear ourselves, but we step back then
and "choose" means we always want to have everything coming easily, and we want to have it all, but with no work at all)
aerials, in the sky
when you lose small mind
you free your life
(when it says "aerials" it means "lives"...everybody's life hanging in the sky,.....and that when you stop being shallow, when you stop judging whithout knowing, when you stop making fun of something, when you stop being selfish, when you open your mind........you are truly free)
life is a waterfall
we drink from the river
then we turn around and put up our walls
(it means that in life we take advantage of things, like people our pure water, and then we turn our backs on them and we become hipocrites like when we "put up a wall"
swimming through the void
we hear the word
we lose ourselves
but we find it all
(it means that when we're in that great waterfall of life, we hear the advices of everyone, but we don't pay attention and lose ourselves, we find the right way at the end)
cause we are the ones that want to play
always want to go
but you never want to stay
and we are the ones that want to choose
always want to play
but you never want to lose
(in the first line "play" means we want to be better, we want to clear ourselves, but we step back then
and "choose" means we always want to have everything coming easily, and we want to have it all, but with no work at all)
aerials, in the sky
when you lose small mind
you free your life
(when it says "aerials" it means "lives"...everybody's life hanging in the sky,.....and that when you stop being shallow, when you stop judging whithout knowing, when you stop making fun of something, when you stop being selfish, when you open your mind........you are truly free)
aerials, so up high
when you free your eyes eternal prize
(it means that life is higher than ourselves, everybody's life is sacred and cannot be judged........then, when we realize that, we open our eyes.....we have the eternal prize...which is freedom)
