Seal    Seal Message Board    Seal Message Board  Hop To Forum Categories  Just Like You Said    The Meaning of The Song: Human Beings
Go
New
Find
Notify
Tools
Reply
  
-star Rating Rate It!  Login/Join 
Newborn Friend
Picture of SealFan13
Posted
Hello, this is SealFan13. Does anyone know, what the lyrics to the song "Human Beings" mean? Please reply back if you know. Thanks you. Smile


SealFan13
Well I feel when you reach number one, think like you're bluffing but really you'll be blocking the sun
 
Posts: 20 | Location: Arizona | Registered: Tue June 21 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Do as you do, cause if you don't, or if you do, people will say, to say,...you know? Be true to you and do as you do;O)
Future Love Paradise
Picture of ladysingstheblues
Posted Hide Post
Hi Sealfan13, This is my take on the song:

Love is the answer to finding oneness. Being human means our bodies can't live on forever, and when we die, life will go on without us...someone will replace us.

Some think that dying will bring you peace, and when you feel this way before it is time for you to die naturally... you have lost your path in life...lost your faith...but then, that is another song Wink

Sometimes, the things people seek in life do not always make them happy...yes, they reach the top at what cost? When they are throwing up the very gift that they share with others...it blocks the "Sun"...the "Chi" in their being.

Peace, Janet
 
Posts: 8581 | Location: Where The Sun Rises | Registered: Wed October 22 2003Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Future Love Paradise
Picture of fast changes
Posted Hide Post
it blocks the "Sun"...the "Chi" in their being.


Big Grin
 
Posts: 1567 | Registered: Mon December 01 2003Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Bring It On
Picture of Rain Wheaton
Posted Hide Post
Human Beings
(Seal) 1998
It is only love I feel
That will give us peace of heart
In my hour of desperate need
I...feel closer to the One
Oh...but why...
Please Human being
If you bleed they will say it was destined
They'll be punchin' tickets
For the minute if you fall out of line
desperate desperate

Tell me is it death you feel
That will bring you peace of life.
Who wants

Tell me you're one
Tell me you're one of us
Tell me you're one
Tell me you're one of us

When you lose your self esteem
That's when love dies...
Ohhh...
Please....
Human being
If you bleed They will say that it's destined
They'll be punchin' tickets
For the minute if you fall out of line

We're mere human beings we die
So...So...desperate desperate... yeah...

Well I feel...
When you've reached number one
You look like you're puffing but
Really only blocking the sun...

Blocking the sun
Blocking the sun..............
Blocking the sun
Blocking the sun..............

We're mere human beings
We die...
It's destined........
They'll be punchin' tickets
For the minute you fall out of life

We're mere human beings we die
We're mere human beings we die
Desperate
It's destined
We're mere human beings we die...
desperate
it's destined destined
We're mere human beings we die...
 
Posts: 444 | Location: Canada | Registered: Mon August 22 2005Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Princess
Love's Divine
Picture of LoneliestStar
Posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Rain Wheaton:

Please Human being
If you bleed they will say it was destined
They'll be punchin' tickets
For the minute if you fall out of line


Punching tickets by minute? I have been thinking about this lyric lately. There's a lot of talent wasting away, unfortunately, behind bars -- or in the grave.
 
Posts: 1578 | Location: Tinsel Town | Registered: Wed November 19 2003Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Haunt My Heart
Get It Together
Picture of Black Halo
Yahoo IM
Posted Hide Post
Just a personal interpretation, but I've always thought "...they'll be punching tickets by the minute if you fall out of line..." meant that there's people clamoring for Tupac and others like him to fail- society LOVES a good scandal! People will buy tickets/ watch someone come up short.


I guess what confuses me most about us,
Are the deeds you've done to break my trust,
I possess but one glass Heart,
For you to stress & break apart
...and thank God for that
 
Posts: 88 | Location: Chicago, Illinois USA | Registered: Mon September 01 2003Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
Heavenly
Posted Hide Post
quote:
Originally posted by Rain Wheaton:
Human Beings
(Seal) 1998
It is only love I feel
That will give us peace of heart
In my hour of desperate need
I...feel closer to the One
Oh...but why...
Please Human being
If you bleed they will say it was destined
They'll be punchin' tickets
For the minute if you fall out of line
desperate desperate

Tell me is it death you feel
That will bring you peace of life.
Who wants

Tell me you're one
Tell me you're one of us
Tell me you're one
Tell me you're one of us

When you lose your self esteem
That's when love dies...
Ohhh...
Please....
Human being
If you bleed They will say that it's destined
They'll be punchin' tickets
For the minute if you fall out of line

We're mere human beings we die
So...So...desperate desperate... yeah...

Well I feel...
When you've reached number one
You look like you're puffing but
Really only blocking the sun...

Blocking the sun
Blocking the sun..............
Blocking the sun
Blocking the sun..............

We're mere human beings
We die...
It's destined........
They'll be punchin' tickets
For the minute you fall out of life

We're mere human beings we die
We're mere human beings we die
Desperate
It's destined
We're mere human beings we die...
desperate
it's destined destined
We're mere human beings we die...


I have a similar view and I like the addition here.

quote:
Originally posted by Black Halo:
Just a personal interpretation, but I've always thought "...they'll be punching tickets by the minute if you fall out of line..." meant that there's people clamoring for Tupac and others like him to fail- society LOVES a good scandal! People will buy tickets/ watch someone come up short.


Seal reatirates the the comment about the hour of desperate need - feel closer to the one. Some of it is faith but in absence of all that you have relied on it is something else that must save you. Kinda like going to far to be saved my any other means. If you bleed then it was written as destiny I feel is a realy nie touch. That is like saying it was always expected and therefore it is not unusual. Speaking of higher politics or actions that ae sanctioned. Has an almost illuminati/secret society feel to it.

In absence of better judgement to find resolution the idea of bringing death closer to you is the only way of finalizing one's own affirmation to finaly live. The blaze of glory type aspect of going out in a bang. This is dying for a cause or giving up within it? Either way the point of finality makes diferent people react in similar yet, unlike manner(s).

The loose your self esteem part is saying something like : if all you have is your self idea of who you are and then that changes. Then, they have won and love no longer exists within you. As if to reference that the life of the person was built on self ( a false premise) which makes al things subsequent and seemingly invalid - VALID or having a power of the person and love does not reside there. Love = God.

Very intricate and elaborate this song. The final part where you are puffing but really only blocking the sun. That is the self becoming to much in comparison to all the things around you and diminishing the aspect of the love alliance and manufacturing claims of greatness boasting of oneself and becoming inflated. Therefore, blocking the sun is the inflated self which disallows for the love light to shine through to get to the person and fuel the idea of salvation and to erode the dreams or modes of encouraging death. moreso it is to dissipate the loneliness felt to bring a much needed healing.

Freud talks about ego this is somthing about it as well but it is also about how the person learns to rationalize an irrational world and it is due to the lack of commitment felt seen and heard through the posture of being in love, or one, or of God. Powerful stuff.

G.


Today, is not yesterday.
 
Posts: 825 | Location: USA | Registered: Tue September 09 2003Reply With QuoteEdit or Delete MessageReport This Post
  Powered by Eve Community  
 

Seal    Seal Message Board    Seal Message Board  Hop To Forum Categories  Just Like You Said    The Meaning of The Song: Human Beings

© Warner Bros. Records 2003