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| Cream – White Room Lyrics
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The Viet Nam war. WWII. Heroin. Cocaine. LSD. Depression. Vampires! I love it! |
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| Cream – White Room Lyrics
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All reviews and interviews say that? Could you possibly cite one? Two? ChelseySelavy already pointed to http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/6596212/white_room. I checked that one out, and it appears to have been written by a fan, and says:
The song's unnerving psychedelic imagery came from lyricist Brown, who had just gone through a period of drug and alcohol excess. "It was in my white-painted room that I had the horrible drug experience that made me want to stop everything," he said.
Translated: I was living in a flat that had a white-painted room. I had been abusing drugs and alcohol. This lead to a particularly bad experience that led me to clean up my act. That white room was the setting of the song.
Note that he doesn't say anything direct about the SUBJECT of the song. Most pointedly, he DOESN'T say it is about cocaine. |
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| Cream – White Room Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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Hello, world. Clapton did not write White Room. Jack Bruce and Pete Brown did. And puhLEEZE, spare us the reflexive "Well yeah -- they wrote it ABOUT Clapton" response. Weak, weak, weak. |
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| Cream – White Room Lyrics
| 14 years ago
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The nihilists never rest. Any song just means whatever you in your pointed little head want it to mean. Anything Shakespeare or Byron or Keats or Blake wrote means whatever you think it means? Or, are you saying that applies only to songs from this limited amount of time? Huh??? Think about the implications of that stance. To say that "In a white room with black curtains near the station" means anything and everything anyone cares to attach to it is logically the same as saying it means nothing. Deal with THAT! |
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| Cream – White Room Lyrics
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Ah, a plausible explanation: "Jack Bruce and Pete Brown wrote this song about Brown's flat and it's surroundings and a longing for this girl." Exactly! The idea that, for the songwriters from that era (I lived it, BTW), the subject matter was frequently drugs, is horse scat. Good lyrics contain imagery, do they not? If someone wants to cherry pick certain images and then force them onto a "Vietnam" template, or a "cocaine addiction" template, it's incredibly easy. Pick ANY song that contains good imagery, and you'll succeed. The tendency for fans to do this with songs from the late 60s and 70s is so, SO tiresome. |
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