| The Feeling – Strange Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Quite probably about coming to terms with sexuality but this song dis-assembles me whenever I hear it. Having been slightly h.f. autistic / Asperger's all my left and only diagnosed/affirmed in my 50's there are some couplets that really resonate. It's both empowering and capable of reducing me to tears, which is kind of the same thing. Maybe that doesn't say what it means, but that's what it means to me. Thanks Dan. |
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| The Feeling – Rose Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Just re-visited this album (12 Stops & Home) as the long awaited 3rd album is released this week. As one or two others have already observed, the song is ostensibly about the pleasure of imbibing chilled rosé wine. Until relatively recently rosé (wine) was regarded as relatively inferior to whites or reds, it's only since about the mid noughties that it began to enjoy greater popularity. But the song is layered in meaning and Dan is using rosé wine as a metaphor for his surrender to love, a perhaps unconventional (in conservative circles) but unashamed, soaring, proud love. The colour is an obvious reference and I like the 'especially today' couplet too, it suggests some sort of epiphany or awakening. Combined with the arrangement, from the minor chord sequence in the opening to the roaring climax, it is a very moving work of some poetic beauty, a minor classic. (I'm not a musician so I may not have expressed that very accurately.) |
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| Einstürzende Neubauten – Sabrina Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Reasonable analysis, if a bit over elaborate. And the creature in the video is a Minotaur, not a goat. | |
| Elbow – The Loneliness of a Tower Crane Driver Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The title bears echoes of Allan Sillitoe's short story (and film) The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner, which explores related the relate theme of a 'Hegelian Master-slave dialectic', where in this case the job gives the crane driver the social freedom of a high income (a high position?!) but enslaves him through its physical and social isolation (through his workmates' envy). My favourite line is "They say I'm on top of my game", delivered as a tacit 'crie de coer' - he's so obviously not - like someone whose heart is breaking telling his (or her) friends "I'm all right, I'm all right" when they are falling apart inside. The 'mirrors and smoke' couplet is a nice piece of wordplay that could be read as a drug reference by some listeners and though I doubt that was Guy's meaning it adds a nice analogous layer to the song. He gets a lot into just a few poetic lines. |
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