| Lead Belly – Goodnight Irene Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I love this song. It's so sinister. I hate that in some versions they took out "get" and made it "see you in my dreams" To me this is a song about an obsessed psycho whose stalking a young girl. It sounds so pretty but when you read the lyrics the singer is crazy and scary. |
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| Syd Barrett – Octopus Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| And yeah, I think it's also sincerely about a carnival too. That's kind of the way metaphor is supposed to work. | |
| Syd Barrett – Octopus Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I think it's a surprisingly honest song about altered senses of experience and reality that others could never really understand whether by drugs or insanity. The experience is disorienting and jarring, yet there's no way to use words to explain it because words can't really convey experience. They can only work when there are shared approximations on which to agree. It's surprisingly poetic in that it plays off of both verbal and visual puns. Both wings and sails navigate the air, plates can be dishes that break or records being spun beneath needles. Needles can create sound waves on the records, and waves break. Sails navigate both air and water, needles control both the experience of music and the experience of drugs. Hiding drug use or insanity, and yet having some judge (internal or external) that can't be escaped. At the same time, finding in drugs the ability to be oneself, getting money for it even, and yet none of what you're thinking really makes sense and it would be better not to see it (though it's ambiguous whether this refers to the approved of reality or the unapproved of). I have to say it's one of the best songs about drugs/insanity and the psychedelic experience I know of. |
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