Question! Lyrics
Ghosts are no different than you,
Ghosts are now waiting for you,
Are you,
Sweet berries ready for two,
Ghosts are no different than you,
Ghosts are now waiting for you,
Are you, dreaming,
Dreaming the night,
Dreaming alright
When we fly
When we, when we go,
Do we die?
Ghosts are no different than you,
Ghosts are now waiting for you,
Are you,
Sweet berries ready for two,
Ghosts are no different than you,
Ghosts are now waiting for you,
Are you, dreaming,
Dreaming the night,
Dreaming all right
When we fly?
When we, when we go
Do we die?
La la la la la la la la,
La la la la la la la la,
La la la la la la la la
When we fly?
When we, when we go
Do we die?
La la la la la la la la.
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I think the lyrics are wrong in "where do we go when we die" it's "when we when we go, do we die?"
BTW, ChristAlphaOmega, you're pretty closed minded in assuming that what you say about God and the afterlife existing is absolutely TRUE with such weak evidence such as "some people on an operating table saw an afterlife"...
anywayz, Serj probably wouldn't absolutely believe in God or the afterlfe if he even asked the question "when we go(out of our bodies) do we die?" He is asking "Is there an afterlife?"
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It's "dreaming denied," not "dreaming the night!"
Anyways, this is by far the best song on the new album, but every song is awesome on it. I think it's about sending people over to war, knowing that they very well could die.
im pretty sure that the song is about eating deadly night-shade berries. sweet berries ready for two? and once the berries are ingested, the consumer usually dies, as they are very poisonous, but before they die, they halucinate, perhaps explaining how they fly.
im pretty sure that the song is about eating deadly night-shade berries. sweet berries ready for two? and once the berries are ingested, the consumer usually dies, as they are very poisonous, but before they die, they halucinate, perhaps explaining how they fly.
i feel that it is about having doubts of god and hoping heaven is real(im athiast btw) and knowing your about to die and fearing your death because of said doubts
i feel that it is about having doubts of god and hoping heaven is real(im athiast btw) and knowing your about to die and fearing your death because of said doubts
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abosolutely the best song. and yea i agree. its even the title, QUESTION! its one of the biggest questions in life. not really being able to answer what happens whe we "fly"
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I also agree with ChristAlphaOmega that the chorus has an obvious afterlife-question reference. However, you don't have to be a missionary while explaining a song with a vague religious connections. I won't even get into the invalidity of your arguments because it would be a wasted effort. If you'll notice, the song is called QUESTION, and you are trying to spin it as an answer. Get over yourself.
Hey, I agree with you and everything about the meaning but just because Someone has different beliefs than you doesn't give you the write to shoot them down. Get over YOURSelf since you think you know everything.
Hey, I agree with you and everything about the meaning but just because Someone has different beliefs than you doesn't give you the write to shoot them down. Get over YOURSelf since you think you know everything.
Terricotta, what you just said doesn't really make sense. ChristAlphaOmega's words, I felt, were hinting at intolerance and kinda challenging. It read aggressively towards anyone with a different point of view towards god and the afterlife. I guess you could say I'm agnostic, and I don't know. So I'm kind of offended when anyone says they KNOW, and declares their right in the way ChristAlphaOmega did. Interpretations of songs or anything else is a place for opinions, and opinions are NOT facts. Inhib was not shooting down his beliefs, he was shooting down his ARGUMENTS. (how he presented his beliefs)...
Terricotta, what you just said doesn't really make sense. ChristAlphaOmega's words, I felt, were hinting at intolerance and kinda challenging. It read aggressively towards anyone with a different point of view towards god and the afterlife. I guess you could say I'm agnostic, and I don't know. So I'm kind of offended when anyone says they KNOW, and declares their right in the way ChristAlphaOmega did. Interpretations of songs or anything else is a place for opinions, and opinions are NOT facts. Inhib was not shooting down his beliefs, he was shooting down his ARGUMENTS. (how he presented his beliefs) Inhib was getting at the fact that NOBODY knows everything, not that he himself knew everything. I guess one could say your interpretations are of inhib's words are wrong, but that's an opinion now, isn't it?
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I think the song refers to not the afterlife,but life.I think it's about the life itself being IT,not the thing after it.The sweet berries would thus be some sort of metaphor for hedonism,and ghosts are no different than you fits in pretty well...and in ghosts are now waiting for you-think the relevant word is NOW,it means not in the after life,but right now,and the ghosts refers to other people,to be consistent with the "ghosts are no different than you",meaning that this is the place,this is the "great afterlife" everyone’s waiting instead of living it,we are the ghosts in it.Dreaming the night,as i understood it at least,would be then dreaming of something that wont come,dreaming of night during the day instead of seizing the day..."Do we know when we fly?....When we,when we go...do we die?" is,again,about us not realizing that the our world is a paradise,and then presuming,but not being sure that this right now is all there is to it...that's how I get it anyway,sort of a carpe diem song. :D
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I think the song refers to not the afterlife,but life.I think it's about the life itself being IT,not the thing after it.The sweet berries would thus be some sort of metaphor for hedonism,and ghosts are no different than you fits in pretty well...and in ghosts are now waiting for you-think the relevant word is NOW,it means not in the after life,but right now,and the ghosts refers to other people,to be consistent with the "ghosts are no different than you",meaning that this is the place,this is the "great afterlife" everyone’s waiting instead of living it,we are the ghosts in it.Dreaming the night,as i understood it at least,would be then dreaming of something that wont come,dreaming of night during the day instead of seizing the day..."Do we know when we fly?....When we,when we go...do we die?" is,again,about us not realizing that the our world is a paradise,and then presuming,but not being sure that this right now is all there is to it...that's how I get it anyway,sort of a carpe diem song. :D
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I know next to nothing abotu music theory, but why use such strange time signatures? In the opening lines it feels like something is missing, so I wonder whether SOAD are intentionally leaving words out of the lyrics - along with the rhytmical elements associated with them. I dont know if there's a word for that, but its how it comes across to me.
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i agree with ChristAlphaOmega and sdrawkcab. the song depicts the fact that life is just like a dream. we find our love ones eventually in our life, and die what happens after death is the most unusual "question!"?
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I believe this song is about suicide.
I agree 100% with ChristAlphaOmega with the whole "where do we go when we die?" thing but I think that with the whole sweet berries thing is like taking pills or something poisonous..
"Ghosts are no different than you" because people can't see ghosts and you think that they won't notice you are dead and gone.. You think that they'll forget eventually and you don't think they'll notice that you're gone really..
Whoever is going to commit suicide is probably thinking "Where will I go when I die? What will it feel like? Will I feel lik I'm flying? Will it feel like a dream?"
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I believe the song is about reincarnation. Supported by the music video and the knowledge that Serj wrote this one himself, he is big into one Divine Spirit that flows through everyone and connects us all. That being said, the video first shows a boy killing a red bird (a red herring if you will). Then a next life a of a boy meeting a girl in a red dress in a garden, and in another life as an actress doing a play with the reincarnated boy. In every instance, the boy kills the being in red. At the end of the video, we are shown a baby born and is held in a red blanket, symbolizing that, once again, this being has reincarnated itself yet again.
Maybe I'm wrong. All I know is this is a damn good song!