Deep Tracks: What Was I Made For? | Jake Haber

Tune in to Part 2 of Deep Tracks as we examine Billie Eilish's Oscar Winner "What Was I Made For?" from the movie Barbie.

Behind the vibrant cinematic flair of the film and the melancholy beauty of the song lies a powerful message of embracing the full spectrum of human experience.

Lyrics: 

Iused to float, now I just fall down

I used to know but I'm not sure now
What I was made for
What was I made for?

 

Takin' a drive, I was an ideal
Looked so alive, turns out I'm not real
Just something you paid for
What was I made for?

 

'Cause I, I
I don't know how to feel
But I wanna try
I don't know how to feel
But someday, I might
Someday, I might

 

When did it end? All the enjoyment
I'm sad again, don't tell my boyfriend
It's not what he's made for
What was I made for?

 

Think I forgot how to be happy
Something I'm not, but something I can be
Something I wait for
Something I'm made for
Something I'm made for

 

Quotes:

 

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks:

"I believe faith is not certainty but the courage to live with uncertainty"

 

Alan Watts:

“This, then, is the human problem: there is a price to be paid for every increase in consciousness. We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."

 

Joanna Macy:

"The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe... All is registered in the 'boundless heart' of the bodhisattva. Through our deepest and innermost responses to our world - to hunger and torture and the threat of annihilation - we touch that boundless heart."