Born for One Thing Lyrics
Mortal, spawn on the altar
Caught in the heart of the blaze
The primal fear of disappearing
Becoming a ghost in the void
(Death)
[Verse 2]
Give a price, put a name
None of it real in this matter
Wandering, distracting
Wishing the life of another self
[Chorus]
We were born for one thing
Tame the greatest fear of all
We were born for one thing
Born to face the greatest fear of all
[Verse 3]
We're all drawn into oursеlves
In a collective coma
Rеmember gazing up for answers
But now we're staring down
(Down)
(Down)
(Down)
(All is blur in the maze we put an end to all)
[Chorus]
We were born for one thing
Tame the greatest fear of all
We were born for one thing
Born to face the greatest fear of all
[Bridge]
We're no one
United
When we're gone
About
In an interview with Kerrang, Joe explains,
We are all going to die, so we need to learn in this life how to let go,” Joe says with disarming bluntness. “Death is a big thing – as much a part of life as birth – but it’s taboo. We need to come to peace with ideas of death and decay [as we are] with how night becomes day. If we are at peace with the idea that our body will cease functioning one day, it can help us to be more generous and compassionate and [not hold onto what we don’t need]. The Buddhists say that if you own more than seven things you start suffering. I think there’s something in that.” Kerrang, 2021
Q&A
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Joe Duplantier:
This is about facing the fear of death. At a certain age, there’s a consciousness in all of us, a clock ticking—a countdown to the great unknown. It’s a reflection based on some books I read when I was younger about Buddhism and these philosophies that teach how to be at peace with oneself and meditate on the essence of being. That’s something we’re losing a little bit in society. Instead, we worry about the things that we want to hold on to in case the world goes to shit.
—via Apple Music
