| Dougie Maclean – Caledonia Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This song has such a personal meaning to me. I first heard the song when Celtic Woman had done it on some PBS special that I had seen multiple times. I liked it, but didn't think anything of it. Then one day while perusing YouTube, I found a version done by Celtic Thunder, the all male version of Celtic Woman, and I fell in love with it. So I found lyrics, learned the song almost by heart, and I hold the lyrics very near to my heart. I am away at college in one of the Chicago suburbs, but I live in a small country town in the middle of nowhere Illinois. And I actually understand this from both perspectives, it's almost strange and conflicting. While I am away at school, I consider my personal Caledonia to be my hometown. I miss my family, my best friends and I were raised there and have been friends almost our entire lives, and I miss the sense of familiarity. When I am at college, I don't always necessarily feel as though I am 'home'. However, when I am home for an extended period of time(Summer/Winter breaks), I begin to feel as if my college is, in fact, my Caledonia. I miss seeing all of my friends from school, I have formed a few great friendships that will last a lifetime. And sometimes, home doesn't necessarily feel like home. My friends that stayed in the area continued living their lives together while I was away, so whenever I go back, home I feel more distant, because I have missed months of life at a time. That's one thing I like about this song...although Caledonia is an actual area of Great Britain, every single person can think of a place that they would call their Caledonia. The line that really hit me the hardest was: "Lost the friends that I needed losing, Found others on the way". I was sharing a bunch of music with one of my best friends from home a day or two before New Years, and right before I played this song, we made brief comment of how our core group of friends has changed in the past 4 or so years...a few of our closest friends very recently leaving the group due to some decisions they made. When I played this for him, he noticed the lyric and kind of chuckled, and then once the song was over, we had a long discussion regarding the "lost the friends that I needed losing." I think that is such a powerful line, at least to me personally. It's not "I lost touch with some of my friends...that's too bad...maybe I'll post on their wall on Facebook." No, it's friends that "needed losing". Almost as if the narrator has matured or changed on his travels, and some of his old friends just aren't on the same wavelength as him anymore. I have definitely experienced that with some of my friends. This was an extremely long, drawn out personal interpretation, but I would suggest to anyone and everyone to check out the Celtic Thunder version, the harmonies are delightful, the orchestration is perfect and they all sing very, very well. thanks for listening! |
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| Brian Head Welch – Flush Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Yeah....it was really really awesome....he had some very inspiring and insightful things to say regarding Christianity in the present, and how it needs to change for the future... If you have more questions regarding his video, on his Myspace page he posted a blog explaining the content of the video...it's a really good post... |
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| Brian Head Welch – Home Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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That's correct... This is a remake of the original song called "A Cheap Name" You can even tell early on in the lyrics that it is directed to 50 Cent.... "Your little toys won’t save you from shot ten" 50 has a song called "Toy Soldier", plus he was shot 9 times... |
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| Brian Head Welch – Flush Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Cadillac... I co-host a Christian Metal radio show and we had Brian in the studio this past Sunday to talk about the album and life and such... Off air, we were discussing the video, and, if I can recall (someone else in the studio was asking me a question, so I only half heard what Brian was saying) but he was mentioning that the red powder represents drugs and addiction. The people in the video show the sex appeal of drugs and drinking. However, at the end, everyone starts vomiting up tar, showing the dangers, physical and emotional, that drugs affect. This is a very unclear description that I just gave, and I wish that I had heard more clearly what Brian was saying about it, because I wasn't entirely sure of the meaning myself. I hope this helps a little bit! |
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