Basically Serj is taking about how humans always are quick to war, to hatred. How there's a lack of brotherhood and humanity in everyday routines. How even after we share the same planet, the same earth, we always tend to hate, we don't even glance and smile at each other;therefor, we drink from the river that we share, then we turn around and put up our walls. Walls as in borders, houses, division.
You always want to play, but you never want to lose:
Meaning we are always quick to jump in, and we put our asses in front of everbody, and we want to show our faces, but then most of us never want to loose.We are in denial of the possibility of not winning. Which is stupid, because there has to be a winner and a loser, and the loser shouldn't be sore about it because it's life.
Swimming through the void
We hear the word,
We lost ourselves,
But we find it all? :
Meaning we swim through the random, we hear cries, we observe the world, and many fall victims to sadness... you loose yourself to leisure, and not caring. However, then one day when you think you've found yourself, and how how you want to approach life... how you want to approach others.....have you really found out? Or is it incomplete?
Aerials, in the sky,
When you lose small mind,
You free your life.
This is the toughest piece of lyrics for me.
I believe it refers to some kind of an angel, or a humaniatarian figure in the sky, and when a small mind that doesn't understand the bigger pictures fails to meet that angel's wit, it fails to understand the right way.....the angel or figure looses its purpose, and so that angel is striped of it's job to help people for the greater good. Therefor, that angel fades into obscurity.
Man....
