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Jojo, on May 6 2009, 04:04 AM, said:

Could someone possibly explain what the line You gotta feel your lines means according to the context of the song. I don`t get it.

I just took this line and the overall idea of the song as meaning that you've gotta be true to yourself...

[hope]

Jojo, on May 6 2009, 04:04 AM, said:

Could someone possibly explain what the line You gotta feel your lines means according to the context of the song. I don`t get it.

I'm sorry, it was a fairly inadequate explanation above. I was just being lazy and will now try and put it in the context of the song. At least the way I see it.

The person in the story/song has reached the point where they feel they have nothing left to lose. So they choose instead to let go of themselves completely and trust their fate/ relinquish control of their fate to a higher power.

In so doing, they find that they are then free to"reinvent" themselves and become whoever or whatever they want to be.

But the striving is always to represent themselves/ourselves in the purest, most authentic way possible. You gotta feel your lines-you've got to be true to yourself.

[Jojo]

Wow! I`ve been waiting for such answer from an english speaking person, because for me this line was both of linguistic and semantic issues. Now I can see how you see it (or how the lyrics should be proberly understood in some way)

[hope]

Jojo, on May 8 2009, 01:51 AM, said:

Wow! I`ve been waiting for such answer from an english speaking person, because for me this line was both of linguistic and semantic issues. Now I can see how you see it (or how the lyrics should be proberly understood in some way)

I'm really happy that you got the point of view I was trying to put across!

I must stress that it's only an explanation of what the line/song means to me though.
Interpretations of lyrics are a personal thing and this is just my opinion, no more no less..

[loudlove]

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thats a good way of looking at it, I myself always wondered what those lyrics meant.

I really love this song, love how it's quietish in the beginning then very loud and aweome in the end, very powerful build of up Johns voice, his guitar and Josh on the drums.

[styro]

Kind of reviving a dead topic here, but did anyone ever figure out who plays bass on this song? My working theory is that Flea plays at the beginning (until 2:04) and John plays the rest, since the bass playing at the beginning sounds rather Flea-ish to me (quite similar to the bass riff during the chorus of Stadium Arcadium(the song)). I think John plays the rest because the bass riff that starts at 4:35 (I think its bass, in the left channel, its heavily processed but I absolutely love the tone regardless) sounds a lot like the guitar line from I Will Always Be Beat Down, similar pattern anyway. If this is the case then I could see why they didn't list who played bass in the liner notes, because it would be a bit confusing to credit one instrument to two people, heh. Sorry if I sound a little overanalytical, I'm just curious since I play bass myself.

[Iva]

That booklet is a FAIL. As if someone made it in dark and had only ten minutes to do it.
Your revival of the dead thread is 100% valid, don't worry.

[Mr. Maniac]

so is the vinyl packaging

that's sad because the empyrean deserves a better one. i mean the cover and the musics great!

[MomentsHaveYou]

Talk about resurrecting a dormant thread...

It's just that I haven't yet seen anyone interpret the following line as I do:

You gotta feel your lines

It seems to yell at me of allusions to acting or rehearsing for a role in the theatre. It's a cliche thing for a director to say to their actors 'once more with feeling'. Lines are the dialogue in a play. Shakespeare wrote 'All the world's a stage' (full quotation here).

So it means being earnest with your words, saying what you feel. It's what someone on a cross, under no illusions about their own mortality, might be likely to urge the people watching him to do. Really it's as lots of other people have already said, I just thought it worked particularly well as a theatrical reference.

[orangevarld]

Hummm, why not? It makes sense. Anyway, interesting thought.