Interpretations:Now That I Have Everything
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This song initially comes across as a satirical chivvying of the unsatisfying desire to have everything, as if teasing materialism.
Yet I find it interesting that if we were to achieve an enlightened state, and own essentially nothing except for our existence, the mirror on the wall (the ego) would cease to have influence on us.
It would be hard to keep track of anything whether you became inseparable from a cluttered pile of infinite possessions or the infinite field of incorporeality.
Either goal would take much dedication, require enduring paths you may not want to revisit, and could disturb your friends. - CatastropheelingGood
This song seems to me to be about a guy who somehow looked into the future and used his knoweledge to make a fortune. examples:
mirror on the wall- a tool with psychic powers
knew what I had to do to be well to do- already knew everything he needed to do
can't tell things apart I don't know where they start- disorientation that would come from seeing the future or time travel
etc. (I'd do more but I'm tired and feeling geeky reading lyrics at my computer)
also it may be more metaphorical for just someone who is a very skilled buisnessperson who started out poor and got really really rich
Is anyone else reminded of Elvis Costello? I am, but I can't put my finger on why, exactly. - Ms Fernandez
I think this song is literally about somebody who has everything, sort of relatable to what attaining nirvana would be like. It's about how, now that the narrator has everything and all knowledge/realization of everything, he has nothing really to live for; there's nothing more to get. He just lets his being float through existence ("I can't tell things apart, I don't know where they start"), and he finds pretty much everything (surfing, what that guy's gonna say) irrelevent to him (including himself-- what does a man who have everything think about when there's nothing left to think about?), because whatever you do, "Everything is everything." It's like describing that we always spend life trying to gain and achieve more and move ever higher to no avail, and even if we do, we find there's nothing to do. A kind of depressing take on the meaning of life, where we live to fulfill the task of completing our lives but we don't and die "frustrated and sad"-- but even the achievement of the (unrealistic) goal leads to no satisfaction, so no matter what we do or strive to do, we'll never be happy at the end. Yay! ~ magbatz
