This song has been haunting my soul since the first time I heard
it. Besides having amazing instrumentals and vocals, it speaks to me and
inspires me in a way that no song has for a long while.
It has something very important to say to our culture and
society…and what we have become. We allow ourselves to be hypnotized by reality
television and our superficial minds cannot think deeply anymore. We are only
concerned with what we want, what we believe that we need. But the truth is
that we are empty. We are simply vessels for corporations to fill with their
ideas of what we should be. No one is truly original anymore. Call me jaded.
When will we wake up? What does it take to understand that
we are so inundated with useless garbage that we have forgotten to care about
important virtues? With pop music lulling us into a false sense of happiness
and MTV convincing us that our deviant behavior is nothing compared to the
outlandish, fame-hungry reality TV stars we watch, we will never be able to
think for ourselves. Our society will continue to be slaves to the brands we
subconsciously worship. The only hope we have is to shut out these controlling
voices and risk being ostracized by those around us.
We are empty…and we must stop filling ourselves with
fleeting desires that will never fulfill us. We have a need for something
eternal…
