The lyrics focus on "the directionlessness of modern life."

The seeming sense- and directionlessness of the riots wasn't comprehensible.

Might the legacy of the Islamic Revolution be an economy that mirrors the informality and directionlessness of the bazaar?

One of the weaker episodes, drawing an elaborate parallel between Laranjinha and a middle-class boy being raised by an overextended single mother, implies that directionlessness is a sort of universal characteristic of childhood.

He added, "It's a powerful re-imagining of what the Sabbath sound can represent, and the song's encapsulation of early-'90s angst and directionlessness helps make it one of the definitive grunge anthems."

But at the sold-out double bill of Richard Buckner and Son Volt on Thursday night at Irving Plaza, directionlessness was a compliment and a goal, a feeling to be captured in the music.

He is glad that his father died early in his life so that he wouldn't have to be disappointed with the directionlessness of his son's life ("I have never in my life been on my way anywhere").

For example, as characterized by Martin Buber in his 1952 work Bilder von Gut und Böse (translated as Good and Evil: Two Interpretations), "The first stage of evil is 'sin,' occasional directionlessness.

Now, as if some God of Underachievers had noticed his directionlessness and mandated a punishment to fit his crime, he had apparently been condemned to drift through time and space as well, like a man lost after closing time in an endless museum.

It's no coincidence that the lyrical and melodic vagueness (even the vocal delivery) of Hari Georgeson crop up in the first song, "Breathe"; Waters makes a belief out of directionlessness - Dark Side Of The Moon is the unhappy son of All Things Must Pass.