True Happiness This Way Lies?

A heavy compressed very manly voice enters from the cheering of his audience. 

Hey Man! I've got what you need!

Have you ever wanted something so badly that it possessed your body and your soul through the night and through the day?!

Until you finally get it!

And then you realise (break)

That it wasn't what you wanted

after all. (Audience sympathising with oooouuuu - sound) 

And then those self same sickly little thoughts now go and attach themselves to something...

or SOMEBODY... NEW! (Audience laughs together)

And the whole god damn thing starts all over...

 again. 

(Here the crisp acoustic guitar starts...

and the speaker begins singing)

Well I've been crushing the symptoms

but I can't locate the cause

Could God really be so cruel?

To give us feelings 

that could never be fulfilled?

(and we feel some rhythm in his play, I myself start to rock a bit from side to side)

He ends the cosy song with this line:

The only true freedom is freedom from the hearts desires 

and the only true happiness this way lies. 

- Matt Johnson/ The The

What is this? Ripping off a highly respected artist on the very day of Santa Lucia!? 

Sorry, Matt. But listening to your words made me think about the same thing I thought about yesterday, and earlier today. The reason of feelings. 

I'm not in the middle of big feelings at the moment. It makes it easier to be analytic. 

So?

Feelings exist because they are necessary for us. Or else we would die. I have to assume that. Nearly everything we are equipped with from nature is because we need it to stay alive. (I say nearly because then I'm safe - I can withdraw if I realise that some things are a waste of traits...). But I'm so curious about, WHY in the whole wide world we need to feel so deeply about others?

I'm talking about love in all it's glory and shapes. Including romantic love, friendship, family feelings, pet love and loving yourself. But also the opposite feelings. 

I mean... If a human animal from the time before words and music existed needed to stay alive - isn't it enough to react to the most basic feelings as fear, safety, hunger and thirst, comfort, horniness, sleepiness etc.? How does falling crazily in love respond to this? 

I don't get it. 

But I'm a huge fan of feelings. 

So no complaints. 

This was just a parallel from the song. The subject is what it is. True. Another way to say; the grass is always greener on the other side. 

And don't we know that feeling? 

Rebecca