this is directly tied with Socrates famous quote: "the unexamined life is not worth living." jordan says to reflect on your life. "see the reverse there's an answer there" means to explore yourself. but how on earth do we fix this? so what to do now? "hands off your fate, child, you'll bury yourself in mistakes." asks the question should we leave life on our will entirely? if so, that causes us pain. (you know, how we not act or do act on fear to avoid pain) The foreigners would be anyone to sees the human race for the first time would even understand pain & how fear would even understand pain too at first. us (children) are trying to find solid ground to stand on a "shaking" world. General Commentthe beginning introduces the cruelty of this world especially with the first line. Hands held upward and eyes wide in suspenseįor a fence is built to protect what lies inside of it.
We turned our water into whining, shouting, Like, goodbye, five times, one for each fingerĪnd you say, "my, my, the ways i've changed since then-the ways i've changed."Īnd all i ever say is, "i'm tired. It hits like a brick to the back of your head "my, my, the ways i've changed since then-the ways i've changed." I am the moth-drenched love of dead mulesĪnd i shake like a spider in the rain when you say, What tied our hands tight to the train tracks, then backed off slowly?
Someday, somewhere it'll leave but, tell me, someone, where does it go? Like a dream that i had of lost faith, it fadesįed with bodies and bread soaked in blood. "hands off your fate, child, you'll bury yourself in mistakes." Yes it's fear-but it's a fear that understands. It is pregnant with the fury that the pain in life demands They feel safer than a statue when they've got a spear in hand, It's a tyrant to the foreigners who've never seen the land Hoping somewhere on this shaking earth, they could find a place to stand. It is evil when it eats, unless it's feeding from the damnedĪll the children painted diagrams of god upon their hands The lion isn't sacred when not sleeping near the lamb