Coppertop Artifact pt 1

Coppertop Artifact pt 1

The first thing that I chose to be my artifact was a song that is very confusing but good at the same time. And it’s called “Closer” by Kings of Leon, and I feel that this best represents some type of artificiality of modern life. I will do my best to describe how and why the artifact that I chose indicates that the world is, or may be, an illusion. So before I begin please take just about 4 minutes to listen to the song so that you can understand where I’m coming from.

Stranded in the spooky town
Stop lights are swaying and the phone lines are down
The floor is crackling cold
She took my heart, I think, she took my soul
With the moon I run
Far from the carnage of the fiery sun

Driven by the strangle of veins
Showing me no mercy, I'd do it again
Open up your eyes
you keep on crying, baby, I'll bleed you dry
the skies they blink at me
I see a storm bubbling up from the sea
and it's coming closer
and it's coming closer

Your shimmy shook my bones
leaving me stranded all in love on my own
Do you think of me?
Where am I now, baby, where do I sleep?
It feels so good but I am old
Two thousand years of chasing taking its toll
And it's coming closer
And it's coming closer
And it's coming closer
And it's coming closer

In this song to me it describes how messed up this world is and it talks about an emptiness feeling and that the way it once was isn’t no more. In a part of the song he says “the skies they blink at me” maybe suggesting that the world he is talking about in this song is not real because he is being watched above from the skies meaning probably a god like ruler watching his every move. But you can get a million things out of this song if you sit and actually think. To me towards the end of this song he is truly talking about a lost love or something that to him might have been his world until it was flipped upside down.