| Adele – Skyfall Lyrics | 11 years ago |
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I’ve been listening to this non-stop for days. I’m not looking at this as being descriptive of the movie because, in my opinion, it only bears a loose connection to it in terms of the themes. Adele is coming from a totally different place. The whole song is about death, but it’s a spiritual death and rebirth: “this is the end”, “I’ve drowned...”, “swept away...”. Psychologically this is amazing because she is going to “where we start” which is, of course, birth and from there to be reborn. The one she is facing it with is essentially her soul (her counter-self, in Jungian terms) the combination of the ego and id (even slightly) seems to destroy the world, but actually it destroys the conscious perspective of the world and creates a new perspective. She and he soul “face it all together”, they “stand tall” when it “crumbles”. Her whole view of the world is dying but she has been brave enough to stand and face it all. “A thousand miles and poles apart”; this is like the ego and unconscious, they are antipodes but you’ll notice that they both start at “Skyfall”. So they’re as far apart as it’s possible to be but they’re also right next to each other — this is her soul/animus. You’ll never have her heart; she has already given it to her soul. The sky falling is a mythological motif which means that the “otherworld” will invade this one, it’s an alchemical motif meaning that what is “above” combines its self with what is “below”. The sky and the earth paradoxically come together for her at the moment she combines with her soul. She says “let the sky fall” because she knows this is the only way the two “poles” can be reconciled. See what I mean about different themes? The movie is essentially about Bond’s perfect nemesis (he’s really fighting himself, since both he and the villain are infatuated with The Mother, by way of M) and it’s not about his combination with himself. He actually kills his nemesis, assuring that it will only return to kill him. Fun. |
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