| Custom Kings – Rose Pickles Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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This Song By the Custom Kings, is Infact an adaption from Tim Winton's "CloudStreet". The Different verses of the song all reflect upon a particular character and the personification of the house and it's role in establishing the unity within the Two Families. The beginning of the song immediately portrays Rose's Situation by labeling the kitchen as "my kitchen", immediately expressing the maternal role forced upon Rose due to Dolly's obsessive drinking. "I hear his footsteps and I hear him breathe" overshadows the lifelessness of Fish after his accident and the separation of his other half. The "Magic-Realism" of the Play, Book and Now- Miniseries, the song is rightfully adapted. Within the Book, The house is personified as being alive and having a dark, depressing past. The Ghostly "Female" Voice throughout the play linking itself to the Ghosts inhabiting the house of Number 1 Cloudsteet. Throughout the entirety of the play/novel/miniseries, the characters wish to escape from the house, and their own reality. Quick Physically escaping, Dolly submerging herself in alcohol and sex and Oriel living outside of the tent, with Oriel stating to the house "What do you want from me?". The mentioning of Drugs establishes their desire to escape, as in contemporary cultures, drugs are used as a means to escape reality.. "I gave her the best food that she'd ever tasted," describes the new experience of "love" and "unit" valued by Winton through his description of "the whole restless mob of us". Rose's anorexia is portrayed by the Custom Kings establishing that "She wants to get wasted", a subconscious phrase in which Rose wastes away due to her starvation. The House itself speaks through the song "you sleep on my floorboards" reminds listeners of the House's surreal lively appearance and actions. The Final verse itself can be interpreted as being spoken through the house, to "Stitch me up" means to unite the bonds between the two families, and relinquish the depression that has for so long lingered in the house. The Final Line "I think I know whose Ghost haunts my kitchen", relates to the main character Fish. For those who have not read the book or play "cloudstreet", it begins with Fishes death and rebirth, through the Miracle in which Fish is torn from himself in the water, and his constant desire to be whole again. In Short the Verses can be interpreted as followed: -The First Verse spoken through the words of Rose, interpreted by "i've read the best words that man's ever written," Rose having read the whole town library. But also portrayed by "But it's your voice that cries out to me in my dreams," Rose's initial love for Fish. -The Second Verse, Fifth and Sixth, are most likely spoken through the house. The House throughout the entirety of the Play And Book Being personified as a "living" "Breathing" thing. -The Third Verse is infact Quick, Rose's Love. "I gave her my soul the night i saw her naked." The two were bound together in the windowless room, as they purged the house of the ghosts by their love. The room previously experiencing death inside, this foreign emotion of "love" repelling them. And that's the interpretation I have come up with after a month of analysis of The Book/Play and only recently the Mini-Series. I Hope i've shed some light on it. |
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