We Are Scientists - After Hours

Artist: We Are Scientists

Song: After Hours

Album: Brain Thrust Mastery

Year: 2008

“This door is always open, this door is always open, no one has the guts to shut us out. But if we have to go now, I guess there's always hope that some place will be serving after hours…”

*A THOUGHT: This is the kind of song that when you listen to it, you immediately get a feeling, in this case I get this feeling of nostalgia/melancholy. The lyrics, as I interpret them, are about saying goodbye to someone, who maybe or maybe not, is leaving forever or at least you’re not going to see that person for a long period of time and as a consequence you are asking that someone to stay so you can spend more time together, looking for a place to “serve after hours”. I can associate this song maybe with death, and the “after hours” meaning either trying to extend the time spent with that someone who’s leaving or perhaps the idea of an afterlife where you’ll meet that someone again. And in the moments you are together it’s like if time didn’t exist at all, like if it didn’t matter all, all you try to do is to cherish those moments, as sadly you know those moments will be gone.

I don’t know, I constantly think about death, after all is the one thing in life that is guaranteed to happen, but I don’t think about it like “oh no I’m doomed, somebody help!” and is not that I’m eager to get there either. No, it's not like that at all, on the contrary, somehow it’s an engine so that I try to make the most of everything as I don’t know when it’s going to happen, not mine, or my loved ones and it is a shame that sometimes we take for granted that we or someone else is going to be there, but you never know... Yes, I know, it sounds cheesy and taken from some cheap self-help book, but what are you going to do about it? Sue me? I don’t think so, the most you can do is stop looking at this blog, which I see you are already doing...

There’s a phrase on this song I really like: “We’re all right where we’re supposed to be” and happens to be so very true, as life takes care (and our actions) of placing each and every one of us where we deserve, with whom we deserve, etc, etc, etc. So if you give crap, you’ll receive crap (which is going to be three times bigger, so you’ll think twice before you give crap to someone ¬¬); you know, some basic karma stuff… And in the video you’ll see we always get what we deserve…

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