{"id":1802,"date":"2009-04-10T23:41:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-10T15:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2009-04-25T00:19:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T16:19:34","slug":"whats-wrong-with-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2009\/04\/whats-wrong-with-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s Wrong with ‘Wrong’?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Catch the new single from Depeche Mode’s new album ‘Sounds of the Universe’ (performed live in Berlin). After the lyrics below are my reflections on them.<\/p>\n

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Wrong<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was born with the wrong sign
\nIn the wrong house
\nWith the wrong ascendancy
\nI took the wrong road
\nThat led to the wrong tendencies
\nI was in the wrong place at the wrong time
\nFor the wrong reason and the wrong rhyme
\nOn the wrong day of the wrong week
\nI used the wrong method with the wrong technique
\nWrong
\nWrong<\/p>\n

There’s something wrong with me chemically
\nSomething wrong with me inherently
\nThe wrong mix in the wrong genes
\nI reached the wrong ends by the wrong means
\nIt puts the wrong plan
\nIn the wrong hands
\nWith the wrong theory for the wrong man
\nThe wrong eyes on the wrong prize
\nThe wrong questions with the wrong replies
\nWrong
\nWrong<\/p>\n

I was marching to the wrong drum
\nWith the wrong scum
\nPissing out the wrong energy
\nUsing all the wrong lines
\nAnd the wrong signs
\nWith the wrong intensity
\nI was on the wrong page of the wrong book
\nWith the wrong rendition of the wrong hook
\nMade the wrong move, every wrong night
\nWith the wrong tune played till it sounded right yah
\nWrong
\nWrong<\/p>\n

Too long
\nWrong<\/p>\n

(First stanza repeats)<\/p>\n

Comments on Lyrics
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The song seems to sing of typical DM-styled existential angst and indignation. Though it blames ‘unchosen’ genes and even the stars under which one was born (but these are karmic results too), it also admitted that one ‘took the wrong road that led to the wrong tendencies’. However, tendencies are but morphing habitual patterns, that one can reshape. One can always endeavour to take the right path. Unless by deliberate choice, one is never at the ‘wrong place at the wrong time’. One is instead at the right place and right time due to karmic forces at play – even when it seems all wrong. It is one’s onus then, to make the best of one’s circumstances – to make them truly right, especially when one can’t simply walk away.<\/p>\n

Whether one believes in fatalism or not, one still ought to do one’s best. If not, to spend the rest of one’s life blaming everything else is surely not going to being one closer to happiness; it would be sheer pointless wallowing in misery, which makes the situation more miserable. With the Buddha-nature within, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with one inherently, other than the refusal to believe in one’s Buddha-nature and one’s ability to actualise it.<\/p>\n

There’s no need to entrust one’s life with any wrong person or plan, and one should simply withdraw best one can to get on the right path. Playing ‘the wrong tune’… ;till it sounded right’ seems like a good idea, but it must be truly right, not just sounding right, or it would be a bigger mistake with worse delusions. ‘Wrong, wrong’… much ‘too long’ it is, to see everything else wrong, other than oneself. A circular loop of self-destruction indeed…. as the last stanza of pointing fingers everywhere else loops back to the first stanza, trapped in a negative rebirth. Don’t even keep blaming oneself – just change oneself to make it right, and change the world thereafter. Nothing is really wrong – other than not doing this. Below is the disturbing official music video of the song.<\/p>\n

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What can we do, other than struggle against an ill destiny?
\nWhat can we do, other than accept the destiny after struggle?
\nWhat can we do, other than struggle to better this destiny after?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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