listened to this a lot scraping along my rock bottom, it somehow felt comforting. the song was like a drinking buddy. but now I'm sober and it's odd , I haven't listened to it in a while.
listened to this a lot scraping along my rock bottom, it somehow felt comforting. the song was like a drinking buddy. but now I'm sober and it's odd , I haven't listened to it in a while.
John Lion said the story was half true, based on personal experiences whilst working as a retail assistant in a shopping mall. John denied inspirations with Streets of London for the music, citing Dylan, Paul Simon and Donovan are the most likely ones to have unconsciously inspire that melody. He said he was driving and humming the melody and found the chords once he got home.
John Lion said the story was half true, based on personal experiences whilst working as a retail assistant in a shopping mall. John denied inspirations with Streets of London for the music, citing Dylan, Paul Simon and Donovan are the most likely ones to have unconsciously inspire that melody. He said he was driving and humming the melody and found the chords once he got home.
It honestly sounds a lot like someone's dislike with God's absence in their life. They see the hurt and abandonment in the world and want God to know that He's not forgiven for it. When the world ends, He wont forgive Himself. This could also be said about humanity towards itself.
It honestly sounds a lot like someone's dislike with God's absence in their life. They see the hurt and abandonment in the world and want God to know that He's not forgiven for it. When the world ends, He wont forgive Himself. This could also be said about humanity towards itself.
I suppose it could also easily translate to a relationship but that would be stretching it. The lyrics seem to encompass humanity as a whole and speaks with an eternal tone that says the audience is more omniscient than on person.
I suppose it could also easily translate to a relationship but that would be stretching it. The lyrics seem to encompass humanity as a whole and speaks with an eternal tone that says the audience is more omniscient than on person.
Still listening to this and always will - when the bass comes in it it so beautiful. As for what it means, for me it's just about Mark trying out his thoughts making sense of the world he has to live in. The commentary section is magic. I have this song on so many of my mixed CDs because it is just such a magnificent song. "And if I had a home"
Still listening to this and always will - when the bass comes in it it so beautiful. As for what it means, for me it's just about Mark trying out his thoughts making sense of the world he has to live in. The commentary section is magic. I have this song on so many of my mixed CDs because it is just such a magnificent song. "And if I had a home"
Devastating xx
Devastating xx
I've been listening to this song for over 35 years and never really analysed it but loved it but surely this is a song about Jesus? How he tries to help folk and although they are damaged goods tries to make them better? Simplistic I know but anything else?
I've been listening to this song for over 35 years and never really analysed it but loved it but surely this is a song about Jesus? How he tries to help folk and although they are damaged goods tries to make them better? Simplistic I know but anything else?
It has always seemed to me to be about how the working-class have always been perceived and this song is a bit of a self-referential thing to that, as in a retort to those perceived ideas - a bit of a "you don't understand us at all" kind of thing going on, so they are parodying what the middle and upper classes think of us. As in, your ideas about us are these things, therefore we have a template that we act upon - but oh boy are you so fucking wrong. The mere fact that this song is written...
It has always seemed to me to be about how the working-class have always been perceived and this song is a bit of a self-referential thing to that, as in a retort to those perceived ideas - a bit of a "you don't understand us at all" kind of thing going on, so they are parodying what the middle and upper classes think of us. As in, your ideas about us are these things, therefore we have a template that we act upon - but oh boy are you so fucking wrong. The mere fact that this song is written and articulated belies their whole notions of the working-class - it's a retort against the whole ideas about us.
I view the coin that she gives to the blind beggar as a coin of pity for all the "blind" men, not least our "hero". She's at the gate (a portal to something else: insight? wisdom?), where she comes and goes as she wants, while the only man around is blind (and probably just sits there, and does not enter).
I view the coin that she gives to the blind beggar as a coin of pity for all the "blind" men, not least our "hero". She's at the gate (a portal to something else: insight? wisdom?), where she comes and goes as she wants, while the only man around is blind (and probably just sits there, and does not enter).
She's out in the daylight, while our "hero" is only slowly waking up in bed, with only a little light shining in through the beat-up shades....
She's out in the daylight, while our "hero" is only slowly waking up in bed, with only a little light shining in through the beat-up shades.
He wakes up, tells himself it does not matter that she's gone - but the very moment that he opens the window and sees the light, he feels an emptiness.
She's born in spring - a time of awakening and increasing light - while he is born "too late". He has reached insight about love and his true emotions only when it was too late, and the (more mature and emotionally enlighted) woman was already gone.