Learning What's Real without Violence to What's Good
by Wenaolong on February 24, 2011I just found this place by way of a search just to get the lyrics straight, because ever since childhood I've been hearing this song without the benefit of comprehending certain phrases (like with MANY songs I love, and that I bet many here also love). Well, that's no big deal up to a certain point, but after a while you just want to know wtf that lyric IS, you know? On the one hand, I don't want to know, because I like my inchoate and childhood-based foggy interpretation, as that lets a certain aesthetic through that won't get bogged down in interpretation. But on the other hand, there is bound to be lots of weird interpretations, both subconscious and conscious, which also do have their impact on what you get out of the song, but also what you will never get out of it, and that stuff may be worth getting.. So now I am determined that there is no more any risk of some sort of deep psychological trauma if I go all out and check every song lyric for any song I love and have heard since childhood, and there may be many benefits from digging into not only the objective story behind the meanings, sometimes even offered by the artists themselves, but also to read what sort of flippy or weird meanings others get out of them, or perhaps even just different than mine.
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