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| Neil Young – After the Gold Rush Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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This song can only be about the state of the Earth. It is such a sad song. As mentioned previously it looks to the past; comparing it to the 1970's with Mother Nature on the run. This idyllic past never took more from the Earth than it really had to. As opposed to today when supply outweighs the demand in one part of the world but is the polar opposite in others. Roads, deforrestation, nuclear power. All taking its toll on a planet on the brink of change.
It also seems as though Neil is deeply saddened by this, discussing his feelings to a small extent in the second verse. A burned out basement may not be the definate basement, one you would find under a house. This could be a metaphor for the spent world with the full moon in his eyes, exposed without the cover of clouds. The band playing in his head and the getting high are both coping mechanisms, ways of escaping.
The third verse, with all its space ships and colour has got to be his imagination, the literal escapism from the dead earth. Human beings as chosen ones can leave the earth, but they cannot take it with them. The animals, the plants, the landscapes, all desolate and left to history. A very sad song indeed. |
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| Bob Dylan – Tangled Up in Blue Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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You tie someones shoelaces so they can walk on, suggesting she made it possible for him to leave. I read an interesting point about the slaves above somewhere, suggesting prostitution, which would almost certainly explain him dying inside. |
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| Bob Dylan – Tangled Up in Blue Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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Petrarch is a 14th Century poet and the majority of Dante's works were also written in the 14th Century. Certainly a hard one to work out, though Dante is definately the more likely. Though, like Petrarch, he wrote poems about love, though not as exclusively as Petrarch (who developed the sonnet especially for the purpose of writing about his love for Laura). He was more inclined to write poetry about his stylistic and existential experiences. |
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