| ohGr – Comedown Lyrics | 12 years ago |
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Not too far, DrGarlic! These lyrics are slippery, ambiguous, difficult to make sense of--which puts the interpreter into the position of someone "stepping out behind the white room allies / wincing from the sun now forcing open eyes": What is seen is fragmented, can't be easily contextualized. I also get the sense that there are two people--the difference in syntax suggests this, the first lines nodding toward complete sentences, followed by a string of blunt nouns, adjectives, and phrases. One person seems to be assaulted by the bright light; the other issues a challenge: "Come down here (further out of the cave, into the bright light [of knowledge] that hurts you) and blow my mind." In that sense, "Wonder exactly / who you'll find / when you lose your mind" denotes a good thing, "your mind" referring to something tamed, opiated, or socially-constructed towards passivity or non-critical-thinking. I'm sure I'm just paraphrasing you, DrGarlic. :-) Come to think of it, though, there may be just one speaker empathizing with the person coming out of the cave. A demonstration, as it were, of what people don't generally do: empathize, especially with those in rough situations. People are more inclined to prescribe remedies (and doesn't it seem as though these remedies fall into dichotomies? Give 'em welfare, or cut off the flow of welfare fertilizer. Take away the guns, or relax gun control laws). Overall, the song makes me think of the idea that people don't "fight back" (i.e., enact a solution) unless a situation becomes "bad enough." At the same time, bad situations are an impetus for burying one's head in the sand, for building up a callus. The song doesn't sound entirely hopeful. |
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