Incubus - Absolution Calling

(This is a fairly intimate experience to share, but this song gave me tears of joy like no song has before when I finally understood it. It took me YEARS and a hundred listens for me to finally get it. I would try to understand, but couldn't. I've even asked other people in past years. And in the summer of 2020, it was playing in the background and just smacked me straight in the face. And I wept tears of joy. Hundreds and thousands of hours of listening to music in the pandemic, alone in a room, nowhere to run. Music saved my life and taught me a strength and calm that I've never had before, and this song was BIGTIME for me. I finally get it when people say "music saved my life". The smartest decision I ever made was to just dive right into music like never before and trust myself and my instincts again.)

It's like an intuition, or a feeling in the air
An intangible impression that's always everywhere
You bit into the apple, laid down your sword and shield
(Untie! A little bit dies, a little each time, the medicine smiles)
Then spun round like a gyre in the unified field
(Inside, your elegant guide, an arrow in flight, a million miles)

I remember feeling the opposite of falling
(Into that spot, where we untie every knot)
Spinning past the ceiling, absolution calling
Are you there, or not?

It's an open invitation, come see the sights of sages
We've been a pride of lions, so afraid to leave our cages
Don't fret over the pieces that smolder in the sun
(Untie! A little bit dies, a little each time, the medicine smiles)
Cause nothing can be broken when everything is one
(Inside, your elegant guide, an arrow in flight, a million miles)

I remember feeling the opposite of falling
(Into that spot, where we untie every knot)
Spinning past the ceiling, absolution calling
Are you there, or not?

I remember feeling the opposite of falling
(Into that spot, where we untie every knot)
Spinning past the ceiling, absolution calling
Are you there, or not?

You bit into the apple, laid down your sword and shield
(Untie! A little bit dies, a little each time, the medicine smiles)
Then spun round like a gyre in the unified field
(Inside, your elegant guide, an arrow in flight, a million miles)

I remember feeling the opposite of falling
(Into that spot, where we untie every knot)
Spinning past the ceiling, absolution calling
Are you there, or not?

I remember feeling the opposite of falling
(Into that spot, where we untie every knot)
Spinning past the ceiling, absolution calling
Are you there, or not?

BONUS Lyric

This is my favorite isolated lyric from the past year probably:

From Slaves' "Talk to a Friend"

I spend the next five lines asking bad questions
How could I hit rock bottom never learning a lesson?
Do I deserve this hurting?
If my body goes limp, would I float to the surface?
Or can I live in a world with no purpose?
How could I change when I'm still the same person?

On the surface, they look like reasonable, logical questions. Questions 90+% of people would ask. But they are all bad questions. They all are looking the wrong direction, into the past. The period we can't do anything about or change. There is only learning from mistakes and looking forward. It's a clever as hell lyric.

Good questions
Who do I want to be?
Where do I want to go?
How do I get there?
How do I make amends for past wrongs?
Objectvely, what are my weaknesses and how do I become better?

Etc. etc.