• thoughts comparing listen only vs. watch
• corporate/exploitation
  • keep your head low vs. questioning authority
  • if nobody speaks up nothing will change
• doubt causes failure but it doesn't mean the lack of hope
• ripples of change; at the end of the story, eurydice starts with a flower in hand, meaning that though the cycle repeats, small cracks appear in the walls
• idealism vs. pragmatism
• hope and cyclic history
• not a love story but a story of humanity

notes

• The experience of being alive vs. material possessions
  • Parallels between Hades and Orpheus
  • Dreams vs. being trapped in cycles
  • Humanity over toil
• Revolution, obedience, power, wealth imbalance
  • Why are people power-hungry? What do they have to lose?
    • Lack of fulfillment in life, lost sight
• Nature vs. artifice
  • "Chant" — "It ain't right, it ain't natural" when talking about seasons changing and oceans rising
  • A result of fixation on material wealth and neglecting the core of existence
• Eternal love that you would do anything for
  • Love and beauty over material wealth
  • The Agony of Eros#^ref-19225

highlights

Alive? That's worth a lot! - Euridyce, "Come Home with Me"