Human Clay
Human Clay is the second album from Florida based rock band
Creed. The album includes the least amount of the band's mainstream
hits compared to that of their debut and final albums but portrays possibly
the most intresting album cover of the late ninties. The band's biggest hit
from the album, "Higher," can symbolize as part of the solution to become
free and break the mold of clay. The thoughts of freedom from some
aspects of life as well as how people are like clay and as they grow they
become a figure that is more human and alive than that of a simply molded
waste.
As a child, people learn and grow depending on their enviroment.
The Human Clay used in the album art of the band shows a clay figure
deteriorating into the road of clay or outstretching its arm to climb out of
the road. The deteriorating version represents a figure falling to the mold
and sinking which quite possibly represents the fall of life and the sinking
back into where the figure's life began to restart the cycle of life in new
form. The other version could represent the new mold after accepting God
into one's life. Scott Stapp, frontman of the band, was a born again
christian and frequently used songs and other forms of media to express
statements of God so this could also represent something to Stapp as a
born again christian rises from the clay; much as the story of Adam and
Eve. By the bible, Adam was created from dirt so this could be an
interpretation of the creation of Adam. The figure shows no emotion and
looks deaf and dumb to what is happening much ...