OK..... I think Infinity is enough a work of art that it deserves to have its every song analysed and examined within the context of every person who reads a different meaning into it. I figure I may as well start with what is probably the single greatest song ever recorded, Truth, seeing as it is the first song on the album and is just so damned good.
Also, this is a good place to start because of the fact that it's a predominantly instrumental track and so the interpretations will differ greatly from person to person.....
From my perspective, this album is about one man and his struggle with his own holiness, his own place within the sphere of all that is, his own place within that which we know as God but which the individual has smartly realized comprises of every single fucking thing in the entire universe....
The individual knows that he is not truly an individual, because he is in fact just a little piece of the jigsaw puzzle that is God. He is as much God as any other person, so why does he feel so alone? Why is he the only person that he knows that is going through this contemplation, why does he have to make this fucking record to exhaust himself of these feelings and express to a cold, confused world the things that they should be thinking of already.... Why has this task fallen to him?
I think that this is not so pressing a concern on his mind in this first track, though, which I feel to be a statement of his own, and our own, divinity. I feel it is a celebration of life, of existence, of the marvel of being. The "Hallelujah" shouted out like the most joyous prayer is a more appropriate way of saying "FUCKING YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!! I AM ALIVE AND I AM HOLY AND HOW FUCKING GOOD IS IT?!?!?!"
The entire track sounds to me like the closest that any man could get to expressing Godliness in a song... the closest to expressing how incredible it is that we are right here, right now, on this same planet, in this same form, speaking with this same language... We are all only energy, we could have been anyplace at anytime, but we are here, now, together.... What an amazing thing it is to exist.... What an amazing song Truth is.
Also, this is a good place to start because of the fact that it's a predominantly instrumental track and so the interpretations will differ greatly from person to person.....
From my perspective, this album is about one man and his struggle with his own holiness, his own place within the sphere of all that is, his own place within that which we know as God but which the individual has smartly realized comprises of every single fucking thing in the entire universe....
The individual knows that he is not truly an individual, because he is in fact just a little piece of the jigsaw puzzle that is God. He is as much God as any other person, so why does he feel so alone? Why is he the only person that he knows that is going through this contemplation, why does he have to make this fucking record to exhaust himself of these feelings and express to a cold, confused world the things that they should be thinking of already.... Why has this task fallen to him?
I think that this is not so pressing a concern on his mind in this first track, though, which I feel to be a statement of his own, and our own, divinity. I feel it is a celebration of life, of existence, of the marvel of being. The "Hallelujah" shouted out like the most joyous prayer is a more appropriate way of saying "FUCKING YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!! I AM ALIVE AND I AM HOLY AND HOW FUCKING GOOD IS IT?!?!?!"
The entire track sounds to me like the closest that any man could get to expressing Godliness in a song... the closest to expressing how incredible it is that we are right here, right now, on this same planet, in this same form, speaking with this same language... We are all only energy, we could have been anyplace at anytime, but we are here, now, together.... What an amazing thing it is to exist.... What an amazing song Truth is.
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