Cathode Ray: a stream of electrons... a stream of negativity?
Sunshine: Sunshine is bright. And hot.
So, is this song about the negativity burning us, destroying us, or brightening and illuminating us? Or both? Or am I missing the point entirely?
Carry our streams
- We carry negativity with us and in us
Lift up our less than elated lives
- What it says really. The question is how it ties in.
Transmit our selves
- We pass on our bad bits to others.
We breathe out
Where no one whispers
- Tricky. I think hes saying that we only show our true selves where no one can see
All in all, I guess this verse is saying that we all have bad bits in us, which we use to lift ourselves and inflict on others, only acting like us properly when not around others.
Take in the dark light
turn the nighttime into day
This one is more simple. We take in the negativity, which causes a change - in this case (im guessing) is a lifting one, forcing us to be better. It depends on whether he is using day as positive and night as negative, or vice versa.
Cathode Ray Sunshine
speak out and we receive
Show me and let us in
The Cathode Ray Sunshine (I THINK) is the negativity from others that forces us to rise/burns us. People are negative, so other people become negative as they receive. Not so sure of the last line there. It could possibly refer to the true self, and how if shown its letting people properly into your life. What is more likely I think is that its a variation on line before - show us negativity, and we become like it.
Alienate
Block out all
- It splits us away from others, and makes us less communicative with others (which is negative.)
Amid the breaking of the light
- Things get worse. I think this line could be used to support Light being positive throughout.
See it again and again
- Obvious. It happens so many times.
Single sight
The single sight bit is that we only see the surface of it, and might be a bit of a reference to materialism. It also I think means we are obsessive, and see only the good or the bad. This verse seems to be about how amid growing negativity we grow away from each other, and how the author sees it often.
Sensory perception
Turn the nighttime into day
This ties in with Single Sight - if we look at things properly, perceive them properly (i.e. with all our sense), it raises us and make things better.
To our great distrust
Escapism a means of
getting through alive
- We ignore it, pretend its otherwise, and as such survive, but dont trust it. We pretend things are better, yet dont always believe it.
Take it in and spit it out
- We take in negativity, and give it out.
That measly filth
- Mikaels contempt for it
We lift ourselves above this by Escapism, and as such survive being burnt. But at the same time, we are still perpetuating this filth by being negative in turn. So while we are lifted, and become stronger, we are at the same time dragged down to the level...
Focal degradation
- our sense of what we want is gone. We no longer have focus.
Drag the chaos into light
- The confusion and negativity is shown and illuminated
Cathode Ray Sunshine
Burn
- Negativity destructs... or maybe this is purifying. But I think not
This closing sequence seems focused on the negative effects and destruction of this.
In total, I think Cathode Ray Sunshine is about negative thinking in our lives, and how it either forces us higher or destructs us.
Any thoughts?
Sunshine: Sunshine is bright. And hot.
So, is this song about the negativity burning us, destroying us, or brightening and illuminating us? Or both? Or am I missing the point entirely?
Carry our streams
- We carry negativity with us and in us
Lift up our less than elated lives
- What it says really. The question is how it ties in.
Transmit our selves
- We pass on our bad bits to others.
We breathe out
Where no one whispers
- Tricky. I think hes saying that we only show our true selves where no one can see
All in all, I guess this verse is saying that we all have bad bits in us, which we use to lift ourselves and inflict on others, only acting like us properly when not around others.
Take in the dark light
turn the nighttime into day
This one is more simple. We take in the negativity, which causes a change - in this case (im guessing) is a lifting one, forcing us to be better. It depends on whether he is using day as positive and night as negative, or vice versa.
Cathode Ray Sunshine
speak out and we receive
Show me and let us in
The Cathode Ray Sunshine (I THINK) is the negativity from others that forces us to rise/burns us. People are negative, so other people become negative as they receive. Not so sure of the last line there. It could possibly refer to the true self, and how if shown its letting people properly into your life. What is more likely I think is that its a variation on line before - show us negativity, and we become like it.
Alienate
Block out all
- It splits us away from others, and makes us less communicative with others (which is negative.)
Amid the breaking of the light
- Things get worse. I think this line could be used to support Light being positive throughout.
See it again and again
- Obvious. It happens so many times.
Single sight
The single sight bit is that we only see the surface of it, and might be a bit of a reference to materialism. It also I think means we are obsessive, and see only the good or the bad. This verse seems to be about how amid growing negativity we grow away from each other, and how the author sees it often.
Sensory perception
Turn the nighttime into day
This ties in with Single Sight - if we look at things properly, perceive them properly (i.e. with all our sense), it raises us and make things better.
To our great distrust
Escapism a means of
getting through alive
- We ignore it, pretend its otherwise, and as such survive, but dont trust it. We pretend things are better, yet dont always believe it.
Take it in and spit it out
- We take in negativity, and give it out.
That measly filth
- Mikaels contempt for it
We lift ourselves above this by Escapism, and as such survive being burnt. But at the same time, we are still perpetuating this filth by being negative in turn. So while we are lifted, and become stronger, we are at the same time dragged down to the level...
Focal degradation
- our sense of what we want is gone. We no longer have focus.
Drag the chaos into light
- The confusion and negativity is shown and illuminated
Cathode Ray Sunshine
Burn
- Negativity destructs... or maybe this is purifying. But I think not
This closing sequence seems focused on the negative effects and destruction of this.
In total, I think Cathode Ray Sunshine is about negative thinking in our lives, and how it either forces us higher or destructs us.
Any thoughts?
