Moving on to the song itself and the lyrics, the 'Uncertainty Swamp' mentioned is a metaphor for an ambivalent, indecisive, ambiguous, un-clear, ill-defined character (all traits of someone who lacks decisiveness & confidence, who are quite often women). A swamp is both liquid and solid, has both water and earth. It has trees and fish. It is neither a lake nor a field. It is both. So it could be said to be indecisive inasmuch as it can't decide whether to be a solid field or a liquid lake. It's both left-wing and right-wing, but also neither. It's both a monarchist and a republican, but also neither. It's both a deist, and an atheist, but also neither. It is something and nothing. It is of no defined character. This absence of definition is what makes people un-certain, and un-confident.
Certainty provides confidence. If you were going to cycle along a path you would need to know for certain that the road you were cycling along was going to remain a road and not change into a muddy quagmire, or even something so bizarre as a pool of toffee. If that road was in-decisive and constantly changed it's mind about it's own nature then cyclists wouldn't have the confidence to go out for a simple bike ride because they wouldn't know whether the road was indeed going to remain a road or not. Now extrapolate this simple scenario to different areas of human existence (manufacturing, inter-personal relationships, farming etc) and you begin to see how destructive a lack of confidence, of certainty, can be to human beings and their society.
A man can gain confidence in himself by choosing a particular path and sticking with it. What that path is, what his character is (e.g. be him right-wing or left-wing, monarchist or republican, atheist or deist) is of secondary importance to him deciding to choose it. The path itself is secondary to his decision to choose a particular path and stick with it, to pick a tree and live it, to pick a mountain and climb it regardless of the rocks and other violence that is inflicted upon him, to pick your cross. Be confident with it, with your choice. Confidence breeds decisiveness. Decisiveness breeds confidence.
# The Uncertainty Swamp #
You heard the news lately,
about the Swampy Disease?
Yeah, it replaces your confidence.
with the Swamp mentality.
Oh yeah.
It takes your Love.
and then replaces it with Swamp.
That murky Swamp.
The Uncertainty Swamp.
Yeah the swamp.
You know that fire within,
that let you do anything.
It get's extinguished by filthy thing,
that Disease known as Swamp.
The Swamp.
It takes your Love.
and then replaces it with Swamp.
That murky Swamp.
The Uncertainty Swamp.
The Swamp.
The Swamp.
The Swamp.
The Swamp.
It takes your Love.
and then replaces it with Swamp.
That murky Swamp.
The Uncertainty Swamp.
The Swamp.
I've been to the abyss.
I stood there and looked 'round.
It's terrifying & cold down there
but at least it has some form.
Any kind of form is better.
Form it gives you certainty.
Any kind of certainty
is better than no certainty.
Swamp takes your Love.
and then replaces it with Swamp.
That murky swamp.
The Uncertainty Swamp.
The Swamp.
The Swamp.
It takes your Love.
That murky Swamp.
It takes your Love.
That murky Swamp.
Too bad.
Too bad.
Hey hey hey.
Hey hey hey.
Hey hey hey.
Hey hey hey.
Hey hey hey.
Hey hey hey.
Hey hey hey.
Hey hey hey.
[End of lyrics.]
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