perhaps while many of us still sit in relative comfort and luxury, only giving the passing thought to the problems of the world, a passing prayer, but not realizing how our lives and lifestyles are intertwined with their suffering. There's definitely a juxtaposition in this song between the developed, civilized world and those that still have to deal with rampant poverty, wars, /drought/disease, and so forth. i think it means there's a certain humanity to be recognized if we really look at any other person. "the way the camera follows us in slo-mo, the way we look to us all" - for some reason this reminds me of those save the children ads, showing children with bloated bellies running, turning slowly. "The way we look to a distant constellation that's dying in the corner of the sky." - ever wished upon a star? or looked at the heavens and prayed, or wondered if there's a god out there, if suffering has meaning, or the reason for your pain in the world? I think that's what's meant, but we're out praying on a star that long ago died out, even though we don't know it yet. What miracles, what things that civilization and now the technological revolution have brought us. These are the days of lasers in the jungleĮach verse also kinda reminds me of reading a news story in a newspaper. It's every generation throws a hero up the pop charts The way we look to a distant constellation
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