| Anathallo – John J. Audubon Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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The entire section before "Overhead the goose flies low..." is directly talking about loss of hearing in the upper register as we age. The story of John Audubon is a metaphor for this as well. The goose is the hair in your ear that dies and falls off when you hear something too loud at that frequency or you just get old and it falls away. The part I think John Audubon plays in it is perhaps, like whenshesmiles said, making record of those sounds so that younger generations can be exposed to them before they gone, like many species of birds will be. I believe it also puts John Audubon in the place of the musician, killing his own hearing (birds) by exposing himself to loud percussive sounds inherent in music making in order to produce sounds (Audubon's paintings) that others may enjoy. |
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