Philosophical Reflections
The song is divided into five segments and the segments and segments are linked at the same time. The first paragraph tells us that the speaker again comes to an old dark friend to talk about darkness and pour his heart into the darkness like an old friend, and it is clear that he has always been lonely and that it is not the first time he dictates or ponders in the dark.
And this time to dark friends - it's a prolonged Mirage (vision) in the head. The vision is translated as an illusion because it often appears in the Lord's dream, though illusory, but so real. The second segment shows the reality of the Mirage. In a dream, the herald man always trembled, walked alone in the cobbled streets, rubbed the halo of a street lamp and turned to the cold and fire.
It was a wet and cold night. On such a lonely, wet and cold night, he wakes up from the sudden piercing light of neon lights, experiencing real silence. The light carries the positive meaning of civilization, hope and enlightenment, in which the sex of Simon changes this image. The third stage has entered the culmination of the Phantom.
The light is the light emitted without a lampshade, because the straight line is so strong. He saw thousands of people in such a strong light. These people talk, but the content of the conversation is empty, there are no words, so yes Talk without talking; the side of the speech is the left ear, listening to the right ear, scattered, so you hear without listening. Can speak, speak, hear, listen as often as simple words for intelligent comparison and artistic effect, really deserves to be a ballad master. Also, they don't mean that they write songs and sing them. It's one thing to write songs, another to sing.
Despite this, nobody dared to face this problem and dared to break such silence. Therefore, God warns them with grief and anger against the horror of silence, because silence, like cancer, continues to spread until it swallows everyone. He wanted everyone to listen to his words, so that he could pull them out, but no one paid attention to him. His words were like quiet drops of rain falling on the bottom of a quiet well, without causing the slightest ripple. Thus, every man worships and prays to the neon God he forms. Here the neon God and the neon light of the second paragraph are connected, connected, the sign means a call.
As long as the underground walls in the fifth line of this paragraph and the shadow halls in the sixth line, the true meaning will not finally appear. The neon light contrasts with it, and it represents the civilization of capitalism, as well as its erosive material goods. In the second paragraph, Simon's floor uses a metaphor to reverse the positive meaning of light and make it dazzling because it does not give clarity, and because people crave material goods and ignore what surrounds them.
At the moment when the preacher tried to object, but in vain, neon slogans broke out with anxiety: the words of the prophet are written on the walls of the subway and in the halls of apartments. Pre-Cognitiveists are not those who predict the future in religion, but tramps and poor people. They often write complaints and grievances on subway walls and in apartment halls, but these voices flood this materialistic society.
At this point, we see that there are basically two themes in the song: one for the worship of capitalism and the other for the alienation and apathy that have led to the loss of human ability to communicate, in fact these two themes are interconnected. From the moment the term silent mass silence appeared, it was almost equal to indifference.