Tabula Rasa Lyrics
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A city worth creating for
Each little winner’s loss
All the people said:
You’d be better off to go
And do what you want
Than say you did what you could
So now you gotta go
Get out there on the move
This is why we’ll start again
And this is how we’ll get there
So follow
And when you think you want to look back
To see if I’m coming too
Just remember this story’s twist:
You’d prefer to risk it.
Tabula Rasa Song Meaning & Comments:
Mar 4, 2010
I think this song is about compromising and staying in the environment you were born into or fit into, or being a big fish in a little pond vs. getting out there and creating yourself.
Towards the end it seems like maybe two creative people fell in love and then one of them left to follow his passion vs. staying in the relationship and the confined environment; preferring to risk the relationship for his own creative and personal freedom. I’ve felt this before, the love you find is based on your own happiness and freedom and if you compromise those things to stay in a relationship then part of you whithers and the relationship suffers, it’s a catch 22 really. Stay with the person and lose your self or leave and keep yourself alive inside but break up or go long distance.
According to Wikipedia, tabula rasa is Latin for “blank slate” and refers to the epistemological thesis that individuals are born without built-in mental content and that their knowledge comes from experience and perception.
Generally proponents of the tabula rasa thesis favour the “nurture” side of the nature versus nurture debate, when it comes to aspects of one’s personality, social and emotional behaviour and intelligence.