This is much higher quality than the other recordings on youtube,thank you! I assume you found/have tapes in really good condition

@SongsfromtheStars

3 жыл бұрын

You would be correct, rocketman0739 has it though.

I just found this and it actually has nice quality thank you so much

The lyrics of this song are actually a song written by Rudyard Kipling in 1935

@SongsfromtheStars

3 жыл бұрын

More of a poem, but yes. There are many filk songs that take their texts from Kipling.

@HatfieldCW

2 жыл бұрын

Check out "The Undertaker's Horse" playlist on this channel, if you haven't yet. Lots of good Kipling there.

@steakthedoggaming5333

Жыл бұрын

Technically it's a modified version, but yes, it is based on the poem Hymn of Breaking Strain.

@khoshekhthecat

Жыл бұрын

I always forget that Kipling also wrote non racist things

@cjmarion6350

Жыл бұрын

@@khoshekhthecat this is one of my favorite comments ever

A song that helps a weary, scarred soul. Im one such soul.

@Spaceman33393

2 жыл бұрын

I know how you feel, some days you try to bear too much pressure and break.

"Yet we - by which sole token we know we once were Gods" I like to think that when Kippling wrote this line he used this phrase to encapsulate the Duality of Man. On one hand, the line "We know we once were Gods" could be interpreted as meaning that mankind (in our collective hubris) thought ourselves to be our own Gods. On the other hand, the line "We know we once were Gods" could also be interpreted as meaning that mankind (out of humility) thought ourselves to be Gods children/servants/etc. ("Those beings are the Gods", versus "Those servants are Gods children".) The main reason I think he intended this dual-interpretation of the line is because of the use of the phrase just before it. "Yet we - by which sole token". A token or coin is often used as a symbolic representation of someone or something having two sides, with two faces. One thing that can be interpreted two separate ways at once, just like humans on the whole often having delusions of their own grandeur and being exceptionally humble. Anyway. I just wanted to share that.

@arcadiaberger9204

10 ай бұрын

Interesting interpretation. I'm pretty sure, myself, that what Kipling meant was that the sense of shame people feel when we fail, even when the odds are absurdly stacked against us, as though we expected to be omnipotent, is evidence that our souls, at some time in the past, must have existed in the form of divine beings which WERE omnipotent. This is related to the belief that our dread of death shows that death is not natural for us, so we must by our nature be immortal beings, and that mourning for the dead is evidence that an afterlife exists where one day there will be a reunion with those we have lost. I don't buy this argument. You could propose by this line of reasoning that your craving for more doughnuts after you've already eaten so many you feel quite full is proof that one day you will be given a stomach with infinite capacity.

@greengrendel

10 ай бұрын

@@arcadiaberger9204 I'd take it that way too, the "by which sole token" line referring to the following line.