You can climb a mountain
You can swim the sea
You can jump into the fire
But you'll never be free
You can shake me up
Or I can break you down
Whoa-o-o-o-o
Whoa-o-o-o-o
("Jump Into the Fire" by Harry Nilsson)
There are endless philosophies, doctrines, codes, ethics, beliefs, and so on depicting and boxing the age old concept of what life is. What life means. What life can or cannot be. One can be realistic in various different "realistic" mindsets. One can be the inversion of that.
The point is, from my understanding, life is as cryptic now as it has always been for me. For some reason though, I read these lyrics written by Harry Nilsson for his kick ass rock song, and I can't help but relate them to my life. I don't really comprehend why. I just do. I hear the lyrics, listen to the beat, bust out into a groove, and feel my mind surfing the cosmos.
Life is as cryptic as these lyrics I posted. I can think of a multitude of things Nilsson could be commenting on. He could be talking about human drama or ego. He can be talking about the condition of being human. The chorus that follows the verse above is a repetition of "we can make each other happy". In that vein, he could be singing to a lover ditching him to pursue something more fiery and chaotic. Or, I could be completely wrong and the sexual passion is nonexistent.
I change my mind a lot pondering this. The more I learn, the more it molds and jives with a variety of ideas, building some elaborate leviathan of a composite philosophy - stolen and adapted from more sources than I care to mention. The same goes for my interpretation of this song.
There's just one constant. This song charges me up. It opens the floodgates to the Dragon nestled deep within the cavernous, fiery Hell that is my body. It unlocks that doorway that lets the inner behemoth soar into the endless possible queries of what "life" is. It becomes this mysterious formless concept that vibrates and resonates my foundations, unleashing that beast within. Life and sound. Energy. A mythical creature of tantamount abilities.
You can jump into the fire
But you'll never be free
I already have jumped in. I just don't know what the "fire" is. I may never know.
-Doctor Nonsensical
