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• Chop suey song meaing full#

And it seems to me that our human life may be like this. It takes time you know, a long time, for the water finally to reach the bottom of the waterfall. And I thought it must be a very difficult experience for each drop of water to come down from the top of such a high mountain. And the water does not come down as one stream, but is separated into many tiny streams. It does not seem to come down swiftly, as you might expect it seems to come down very slowly because of the distance. The highest one there is one thousand three hundred forty feet high, and from it the water comes down like a curtain thrown from the top of the mountain. I went to Yosemite National Park, and I saw some huge waterfalls. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in life.” Nirvana, the Waterfall, Shunryu Suzuki, Roshi

I did some research and Serg said he wrote it following his reading of Zen Mind - Beginners Mind. I was blown away by the lyrics, please read them and enjoy the song. These guys are social advocates and play really hard rock.

They've always been radical and the band members are known to be anti establishment. Music is Life."īecause this band in particular always wanted to send their message via their songs. Steven Bridges from Las Vegas, Nevada"Vioanna from Indianapolis, Indiana.Kinda helped me because I've been thinking hard about the meaning for a while. You can think it's war, you can think it's about how identity, you can think it's about religion, at the end of the day there is not a single person in this world that is going to be thinking of you expressing that opinion but you, so if you're gonna express it at least be vaguely nice about it.īut anyways, my first opinion on this was sort of similar to this, but it's more about the cruelty of people that try to manipulate you to get what they want, which I think is emphasized by how different the kid in the music video is and how he may have some gift that people try to take advantage of, and the kid is obviously aware of it at the point where he's in the room with the two women and he looks frustrated or confused or whatever, but this way of thinking of it was a little better than what I had, mainly because my opinion was based off the video and not any lyrics while this had a crap ton of evidence other than the video.

You can have opinions and think of what it means and you can follow that but you don't have to be dicks about it when people think something else than you. Anonymous from Elk Grove, CaliforniaThere are people arguing in the comments about stupid things like what the song actually means, it doesn't matter what you think it means because there's a big chance that, unless you've dedicated decades of your life to deciphering it, you're wrong.This shows how greedy, oblivious and inconsiderate people can be. "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.

Chop suey song meaing full#

"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. We do whatever we can but if trouble is ever near we do whatever we can to maintain innocence. "And we are the ones that want to choose, always wanna play, but you never wanna lose." - We want and want. We strive for what we want and when we get it, it still does not satisfy. "'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 forget who we really are in the mix of seeking the synthetic lifestyle, and that's the price to lose who we really are. "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. "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. This song is about how people can lose their identities and become just like everyone else.