| Neutral Milk Hotel – Wood Guitar Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| Is it not: "And who needs fools to think you're hip / when all the world is full of shit" ? | |
| Syd Barrett – It Is Obvious Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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More thoughts on that: Reason is written on the brambles. His blood, stranded on the spikes, reads: "Oh Listen". Right, so with that clarification out of the way ... "Remember those times I could call through a clear daytime and you would be there." Perhaps the "you" in this sentence is Reason itself. The oppppsite of a "clear daytime" is a cloudy, or unclear, night. He remembers when he could excersize reason, at a time when his life, his mind, was clear and bright - but no more. |
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| Syd Barrett – It Is Obvious Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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Reason, it is written on the brambles, Stranded on the spikes, my blood READ: Oh, Listen" ------------ You see, it is 'my blood "read"', not "red" ... It's like the title of the song ... It Is Obvious! (The) Reason is obvious. In his blood, it is written: "Oh Listen!" |
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| Syd Barrett – Long Gone Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I wote this a while back: Alright, so given the conclusions drawn here, I submit to you my psychoanalysis as well. Think "long gone", like gone crazy, gone fishing, not there ... The lyrics are about being trapped, as though in one's own mind; though it is a bit more than that, for this entrapment seems to be a malady, suffered in the first person, and viewed in the third. The malady cannot be treated, cannot be compromised; the harder one presses - or others press -to dissolve it's hold, the stronger it holds. The sufferer is illustrated in one sad scene, in which He (or She, as it were) is standing at a window, and crying, either tearfully or perhaps shouting - this can be pictured literally, though it is also metaphorical. The sufferer is also here cast into the role of the hero; for standing in the window, he is thinking of the people he loves, and even here in his (or Her) isolation behind the window of his (or Her) mind, His eyes (the eyes are the windows to the soul, afterall, have you not heard that?) engender the beauty of the love he feels for those people. The lyric ends in the fourth stanza, where the entrapment theme becomes evident, the imagery of a wild animal in a cage, who at the very end lifts Her head to that great symbol of freedom, the sky - the light, in the sky, in fact, which is the dawn, the beginning of the day anew - the dawn opening, to which Her face lights up, as She sees this from inside her cage. But what I think is most interesting, in this interpretation, is that Her dilemma is not solved. For her cage does not open, but it is the dawn that opens, and lights up her face - only we then, in the final stanza, return to the songwriters assertion that She is long gone. This is a sad song. Makes me think a little bit of the song Dominos. Themes of whiling away time, remaining cloistered from the rest of the world. Memories. Dream reference. |
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