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Tuesday, 03 November 2009

  • (misheard lyrics) "Let it Rock"


    It's so hard to find songs that actually appeal in some significant philosophical way to me.  I'm not above willingly hearing what I want to as far as entertaining music goes in order to make ends meet in a culture that bombards us with trite nonsense.  Just wish what I misheard on the radio had been the actual lyrics.

    The chorus to Kevin Rudolf's "Let it Rock" goes:

    Because when I arrive
    I, I bring the fire
    Make you come alive
    I can take you higher
    What is this, forgot?
    I must now remind you
    Let It Rock
    Let It Rock
    Let It Rock

    Instead of what is highlighted, my cognitive biases interpolated, "What they says, for God..."   Meaning, the way people used to conceive of what makes life worth living in a passionate way for God needs to be replaced with a passion for life in a humanistic sense. 

    And the song had introduced God earlier in the song:

    So you pray to God
    To justify the way you live a lie, live a lie, live a lie

    So it wasn't an implausible interpretation, but it was wrong.  Oh well.  There's a whole bunch of other stuff going on in the song I'm not even going to try to understand, so it's not a significant loss.  But it does remind me how few songs seem to be available in my philosophical genre. 

    Ben

    Update:  Saint Gasoline has a very interesting post interpreting the entire song as a fully humanistic anthem.

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