| Leonard Cohen – You Know Who I Am Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| I think she loves him but she has too many expectations, causing a distance between his real "him" and her idealized "him". He realizes this makes their relation impossible. If she insists, he won't resist, but he knows it will be too hard to build up a healthy relation. | |
| Leonard Cohen – One of Us Cannot Be Wrong Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| she dumped him, the doctor, the saint and the eskimo are himself representing the contradictions he feels, and in the end he just gets very very wasted | |
| Paul Simon – You Can Call Me Al Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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this might sound a bit strange and even a boring explanation, but i think the ones who know something about psychology might agree. He\'s been in africa and has studied Dante and I\'m sure you\'re all right about all that. And he uses all these images and experiences brilliantly to discribe how \"he\'s soft in the middle\": what does a man in his midlife crisis feel? He feels lost and alone, confused, gets a beerbelley, thinks life is dull, might have complexes about his weeny(?), doubts about his family, has another girl but is not satisfied... Along his life, full of incidents and accidents, he only got hints and allegations, no solutions as he had expected. But at that moment he gets to know Betty, the girl Al was married to in earlier times, or better said: his anima (his femine, unconscient side). It feels like heaven to him to finally have found his long lost pal, he says goodbye! to the first part of his life and hello! to the new part. I thought of this because Gumboots tells a rather similar story: him discussing with his unhappy other himself. At the end he says \"hey señorita\" to himself, might be \"Betty\", or his anima. I wonder what Jung would have told about it... |
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