https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/sleeping-on-rocks/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:55:38 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/sleeping-on-rocks/#post-134852 Wed, 26 Oct 2005 08:12:20 +0000 after adam and eve were cast out of eden, the entrance was guarded by two seraphim with flaming swords, never to be entered by man again.
satan was modeled after the god pan, who had the body of a goat and the torso of a man, and horns. he was a fun-loving prankster who played the pipes, the "pan-pipes". there's also the myth that robert johnson learned to play the guitar when lucifer tuned his guitar for him, making him the greatest blues musician in exchange for his immortal soul. johnson often used alternate tunings.
in genesis, god modeled man "in our image". this reference to "our", instead of "my" is a vestige of the polytheism that all early religions contained. this, of course, changed later, as we can see plainly in the first commandment.
the tao te ching places emphasis on the world in opposites. there is no up without down. there is no love without hate. the master keeps to the center and embodies the flow. this static world in opposites is what christianity, god and the devil, good and evil, us and them, the apocalypse, is all about.

verse one implies that exchanging one form of passive entertainment for another can be dangerous without perspective.

there is an expression, "cutting off your nose to spite your face", which means that you do something that damages yourself in an effort hurt someone else, or that the cure is more harmful than the disease. in this case, hardening your feelings in order to prevent getting hurt, even though it shuts out any opportunity to love.

the pink floyd reference is obviously intentional.]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club Anonymous https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/sleeping-on-rocks/#post-134852 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/sleeping-on-rocks/#post-134474 Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:05:58 +0000 but your lyrics flow like lead
and all in all you're just another brick
in a featherbed
I reallly liked this part!

Keep it up!]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club nolongerme https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/sleeping-on-rocks/#post-134474 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/sleeping-on-rocks/#post-134367 Mon, 24 Oct 2005 03:24:09 +0000
"all in all, you're just another brick" -That is a dangerous line! I really don't think that there is any danger here. "Another brick in the featherbed" is saying that it doesn't fit with the crowed, and that it is somewhere it doesn't belong. I think brothert. wanted to make the connection to pink floyd. Just with some different meaning.

SMohyee, great thoughts about the song. I had to re-read it and I could get what you were saying. I had different interpretations, but your seemed quite accurate (so it seems.) I also noticed that you're somewhat new, so welcome to guitarnoise.

Brothert. give us some feedback whenever you can and let us know what the song really means and if SMohyee's interpretation was right.

As always, Keep it up!]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club pierson https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/sleeping-on-rocks/#post-134367 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/sleeping-on-rocks/#post-134336 Mon, 24 Oct 2005 00:04:49 +0000
My only thought was that you may want to be careful with

"all in all, you're just another brick" -That is a dangerous line!

Nice lyrics though

Taso]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club Taso https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/sleeping-on-rocks/#post-134336 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/sleeping-on-rocks/#post-134216 Sun, 23 Oct 2005 02:43:15 +0000
V1 - Our imaginations and minds are so limited by effects of television, we are amazed when we discover the benefits of literature

V2 - The finding morality one explains that even though we may start out being taught a set of moral principles to follow, eventually we modify it to suit our own life. I still don't get the nose reference. Though maybe it means that even though someone 'smells bad' to you, you'll still let them in because you've become jaded.

V3- Once again talking about morality, tied into religion this time. You work your principles around what works, aka scientific evidence. Furthermore, you question the value of religion, since if people do terrible things in its name (angel cut with swords of fire), and it takes bad things to make you appreciate good (satan tunes ears higher), you'd have to question whether God deserves any more worship than Satan.

Also, I like the Floyd reference with the 'all in all your just another brick' (in the wall).]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club SMohyee https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/sleeping-on-rocks/#post-134216 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/sleeping-on-rocks/#post-133815 Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:24:07 +0000 in a featherbedhurt by those i let in close
so i cut out my heart to spite my noseFreakin' awesome. Keep it up!]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club pierson https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/sleeping-on-rocks/#post-133815 https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/sleeping-on-rocks/#post-12601 Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:48:15 +0000 or so it seems in my dreams
my thoughts bent by cathode tubes
kept in molded plastic cubes
i found life in the printed page
and imagined myself a sage

there's beauty in your head
but your lyrics flow like lead
and all in all you're just another brick
in a featherbed

given hate by those unafraid to share
and it all leaves me too numb to care
jerked around by jerks
finding morality in what works
hurt by those i let in close
so i cut out my heart to spite my nose

there's beauty in your head
but your lyrics flow like lead
and all in all you're just another brick
in a featherbed

i'm an atheist in eden
taught right and wrong by newton
while angel swords cut with fire
and satan tunes my ears higher
so who created love and hate
and which god does my image imitate

there's beauty in your head
but your lyrics flow like lead
and all in all you're just another brick
in a featherbed

edit: switched the last two verse lines]]> Guitar Noise Songwriting Club Anonymous https://guitarnoise.forum/guitar-noise-songwriting-club/sleeping-on-rocks/#post-12601