#Sisyphus lyrics full

Now that is a profoundly positive and optimistic message to give to people. It's not a contradiction to say that Sisyphus was happy about his lot.Īnd the fact that he CAN be happy means that no matter how bad your life is because it can no way be as bad as his – you can manifest happiness in your life. And then Sisyphus has to walk back down the hill, seeing the rock at the bottom, trudge his way down it – and that's when Camus says, 'but in that moment, Sisyphus is much more powerful than we can possibly give anyone credit for.'Ĭamus says, 'We can imagine Sisyphus happy.'Īnd the word I want to focus on is the 'can.' After that great comes flying down again. Every time he gets it to the top of the mountain, it rolls back down – he has to push it up again.

Sisyphus, who's angered the gods gets condemned to pushing a rock up a mountain forever and ever and ever. So then Camus starts you off even more depressingly by telling you about someone else's life, which appears so much worse than our own. And he starts very depressingly the initial question of philosophy is: 'Should I commit suicide?' I suddenly realized there was this question to answer – I don't have an answer for it.Īlbert Camus, for instance, wrote a book about this. I couldn't care less if a football team won over another team.īecause I didn't have an answer, that posed the question. I just couldn't care less whether a company earned more or less money.

#Sisyphus lyrics full

When comes to the meaning of life, the reason that I became a philosopher and became interested in the meaning of life was because I was just full of apathy.