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All you touch, and all you see is all your life will ever be. -Pink Floyd, TdSotM

jeron 10y ago
*TDSotM
equalarrow 10y ago
So beautiful and true on multiple levels. 1. What it says 2. The prose and length of how it is said I will be thinking of this for the rest of the day, thank you.
andrepd 10y ago
Hmm. What do you reckon is the meaning of this line?
- quakeguy 10y ago
  Whatever you read into it i guess. That's the power of it.
  - justinpombrio 10y ago
    No. Read the damn words. It's not even that obtuse.
    - quakeguy 10y ago
      Touch sth. with your hands? Or touch it with your mind? Is all everything? Or just the things we can remember? Do your eyes see everything, or only the important parts? Do you remember every second of your life? Can you remember everything? Read my damn words twice.
- justinpombrio 10y ago
  "In concrete fact I have no self other than the totality of things of which I am currently aware." The Way of Zen, by Alan Watts
- Arjuna 10y ago
  My personal take... The lyric expresses a longing to know more, but alas, we are forever confined to our senses; similar to Kant's perspective, which suggests that, although we can know information about a thing (i.e., via the senses, "touch" and "see", as the lyric suggests), we can never know a thing in and of itself (i.e., outside of our senses). We can only ever experience a sense-based representation of a thing, and not the thing's true nature. Moreover, we cannot touch (i.e., experience) or see (again, experience) anything outside of the present moment. No matter what changes, we are locked in the moment, because there is no past or future, in the sense that we can experience those concepts now (i.e., there is only the present moment in time). Everything that has ever happened, occurred in a series of present moments. The lyric expresses these truths, while intertwined with a saturnine feeling; that is, we are bound by our senses, and bound by the moment, but we long to experience more. However, it is all we ever have; it is: "all your life will ever be."
- vikiomega9 10y ago
  I thought it meant a helplessness given a mental illness, going by the theme of the song.

jeron 10y ago

*TDSotM

So beautiful and true on multiple levels. 1. What it says 2. The prose and length of how it is said I will be thinking of this for the rest of the day, thank you.

andrepd 10y ago

Hmm. What do you reckon is the meaning of this line?

quakeguy 10y ago
Whatever you read into it i guess. That's the power of it.
- justinpombrio 10y ago
  No. Read the damn words. It's not even that obtuse.
  - quakeguy 10y ago
    Touch sth. with your hands? Or touch it with your mind? Is all everything? Or just the things we can remember? Do your eyes see everything, or only the important parts? Do you remember every second of your life? Can you remember everything? Read my damn words twice.
justinpombrio 10y ago
"In concrete fact I have no self other than the totality of things of which I am currently aware." The Way of Zen, by Alan Watts
Arjuna 10y ago
My personal take... The lyric expresses a longing to know more, but alas, we are forever confined to our senses; similar to Kant's perspective, which suggests that, although we can know information about a thing (i.e., via the senses, "touch" and "see", as the lyric suggests), we can never know a thing in and of itself (i.e., outside of our senses). We can only ever experience a sense-based representation of a thing, and not the thing's true nature. Moreover, we cannot touch (i.e., experience) or see (again, experience) anything outside of the present moment. No matter what changes, we are locked in the moment, because there is no past or future, in the sense that we can experience those concepts now (i.e., there is only the present moment in time). Everything that has ever happened, occurred in a series of present moments. The lyric expresses these truths, while intertwined with a saturnine feeling; that is, we are bound by our senses, and bound by the moment, but we long to experience more. However, it is all we ever have; it is: "all your life will ever be."
vikiomega9 10y ago
I thought it meant a helplessness given a mental illness, going by the theme of the song.