Glen from WhenHow is this song not about Satan?.To be there for you as you go through whatever it is your going through but the first start is to just be honest. The best teachers have nothing to teach you but to offer you grace instead. It's easier to be shut off and to pretend than to really be. The greatest teachers will leave you to yourself chained to fate basically stating the only person who's going to get you out of your own mind is you. People who struggle to be honest about their true feelings with others and with themselves. Mia from NopeI interpreted this song to people who struggle with anxiety and being doubtful.Seems like he could've switched 'eyes' and 'brains' and the lines would have rhymed better, IDK. Luna Loud from Royal Woods, MichiganAnyone else notice he sings the lines:Īnd measure these things by your brains.'.I love to work like that and listen to other music that I think is made in that way, because it leaves it wide open to whatever you want to make it.' Rather than thinking, 'I'm going to start with this, end here and this is what I mean,' it's a piece that comes from a lot of little pieces.

Then it was really a matter of putting these little pieces of meaning together, in almost a montage. Then the verses are setting up this meditative place – they even mention a church – just trying to put together an image of a man in contemplation about these bigger ideas. It's a pretty obvious statement but it's also a kind of surrender, an acknowledgement of our weakness. It's easier to be what we are: fledgling beings trying to find our way through life. That initial lyric is a surrender to the obviousness that it's easier not to be a wise man. He said, 'The opening line, 'It's easier not to be wise,' was based on me always having had an interest in spiritual traditions and philosophy and finding answers to the big questions in life. Kowalczyk told Songwriting Magazine the meaning behind the song's opening lyrics.

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