Post by fugees-online on Sept 19, 2005 11:06:09 GMT 1
LAURYN ON CARNAL LUST
I. Adam Lives In Theory
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Adam lives in theory trying to turn stone into bread, masquerading like he's got it figured out/Cut off from the sunshine only smart in his own head/Leaving his descendents to hope in doubt/Left to his devices, those worthless sacrifices, praying to the altar of his self/Making pilgrimages thinking he's religious, like he's got all the light and no one else/He takes the unsuspected 'cause he knows they're not connected, and he shows them how to be just as he is/Virtually real and commercially appeal to the lust of all the people where he lives/Eve was so naive, blinded by the pride and greed, wanting to be intellectual/Drifting from the way she got turned out one day and now she thinks that she's bisexual/Caught up in emotion, burning up in her devotion to the king of exploitation in the field/She handed him her virtue, 'cause he told her 'I won't hurt you,' so she laid with him to see how good it feels/Now can you tell me what, what we gonna do now, where we gonna go now, what we gonna say now , now can you tell me what, what we gonna do now, where we gonna go now, what we gonna say now,
Now after the sensation and the empty fornication she brought infection home into her bed/Quickly multiplying, now the three of them are dying by the poison she perceived to be good head/Now Eve and her husband are perverted in their judgment 'cause everything appeared to be the same/They entertained suggestions,'/ next time just use protection'/Desiring to cover up their shame/But much to their demise poor decision closed their eyes to the very antidote to their dilemma/Burning in their lust, both of them adulterous, destroying the original agenda, praying to the sky in order to maintain a lie/They exhausted every possible conclusion/They can't even entertain the solution in a brain filled with vain information and pollution/Hiding from the truth, he provided an excuse to explain away his desperate situation/When confronted blamed his wife, giving birth to carnal life, refusing to acknowledge what he'd done/Now, if we can't agree with who created us to be who says we're guilty everyone before his eyes/Making no exception since the day of our conception, predisposed to hating truth and loving lies/Then can you tell me what, what we gonna do now, where we gonna go now, what we gonna say nowThen can you tell me what, what we gonna do now, where we gonna go now, what we gonna say now
Stop walking in pride, let the thief be crucified, unlearn everything you know and let Him teach you/Line upon line and precept upon precept/Say goodbye to this decaying social system/He wants to know how far we're willing to go, if we love Him like we say we do, He'll try us/Just you don't regress or slip into hopelessness/Once He's satisfied it's love He won't deny us/And then He'll tell us what, what we gonna do now, where we gonna go now, what we gonna say nowHe'll tell us what, what we gonna do now, where we gonna go now, what we gonna say now
Explanation: Adam Lives In Theory was one of Lauryn’s first true parables. The idea takes Adam and Eve and makes them into modern day people. As in historical biblical stories, Eve took the apple from the serpent and gave it to Adam thus condemning man. This time, the two are placed in modern day context. And the apple is applied in regards to carnal lust and sins of the flesh. Eve, in this story accepts the apple, which is sexual intercourse and then condemns herself, her husband Adam, and her lineage with a sexually transmitted disease, Lauryn aptly comparing the apple to “good head (fellatio)”
“Drifting from the way she got turned out one day and now she thinks that she's bisexual/Caught up in emotion, burning up in her devotion to the king of exploitation in the field/She handed him her virtue, 'cause he told her 'I won't hurt you,' so she laid with him to see how good it feels/ Now after the sensation and the empty fornication she brought infection home into her bed/Quickly multiplying, now the three of them are dying by the poison she perceived to be good head/”.
Lauryn claims that all of her songs are about problem, cause, and solution. She explains the problem: man’s carnal lust. The cause: man’s pride, his lack of spiritual pleasure, and his need to fit into society, as well as his belief in the pollution that society preaches as true: “They can't even entertain the solution in a brain filled with vain information and pollution/Hiding from the truth, he provided an excuse to explain away his desperate situation/”. The solution, she explains quite simply in the final verse of the song: “Stop walking in pride, let the thief be crucified, unlearn everything you know and let Him teach you/Line upon line and precept upon precept/Say goodbye to this decaying social system/He wants to know how far we're willing to go, if we love Him like we say we do, He'll try us/Just you don't regress or slip into hopelessness/Once He's satisfied it's love He won't deny us/”. She instructs that we should stop walking in pride, and except the fact that everything we know could potentially be a lie. She says let the thief be crucified, the thief who didn’t believe in Jesus on the cross still resides in each of us, and must be crucified for us to truly believe. Unlearn all the pollution that society has taught us and let God reteach us by releasing our faith in society, which she calls a decaying social system. She then explains the God wishes to know how far we’ll go, that’s he testing our faith. If we do not regress, which means to fall backwards into sin that we’ve escaped, then we’ll satisfy his test of our love, and he will tell us where to go, what to do, and what to say at all times in life. This song like any parable is applicable to any situation, but she chooses to focus specifically on carnal lusts and acceptability as that is what is driving the world masses at this time.