• i appreciate the entries by shsam and royalfowey... it does sound like dandy to me, no matter how hard i try to hear daily or deadly. I get what has been said about cycles but at the same time its not about things coming around again, it is specifically about the death of all things. the fact that all things pass just makes them more precious, think about the difference between fake flowers and real flowers. The beauty is in the bitter sweetness of the brevity. That is why paganists celebrate both death and life, sex and blood, darkness and light, good and evil. It is what makes us human. It is what brings a balance and a beauty. All of the greatest of art has an element of pain and regret as well as a great longing for something more pure, greater, higher. We are always striving for something beautiful, whole and lasting. a bit like the full moon in this song. We are the dogs barking futilely at the moon, dogs are often used as imagery when you want to make the object appear driven and hopeful yet also lowely helpless and futile. hence the saying 'you are barking up the wrong tree' I like the sense in this song that there is a kind of release in death, a kind of strange tragic beauty, that we are all waiting for it in a sense. as said by others, we are always looking to the future, hoping to improve things, yet in the end we all end up in the same place having frittled our life away on dreams. but its the only way we can live. It is who we are. I love this song, it is everything that i think and feel about the world, and at a time when I feel like it might be time to move on, and i'm feeling sad about what I have to leave behind. things become more beautiful when you know that you wont have them for much longer.

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