| Incubus – Isadore Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I don't want to harp too harsh and much on you, but I really have to disagree with you here. You're jumping between narators so many times, only to make it somehow fit your theory of pregnancy, although it's much more likely that there's only one narator, Isadore. Why? Because the narator "wants more than this kite will soar" (line 3) and because he's the one taking the parachute, leaving Erica behind (lines 29 - 31). Let me put it this way: in order to support your theory, you had to invent a narator outside of the baloon and made him have sex with Erica, all of this based on the name "Isadore" and it's ethymology. A similar approach to this would be: "Ok, Erica in fact means 'ruler of people', so I guess the song is about this powerhungry Erica traveling over the world in a baloon with a man called Isadore, who eventually grows tired of her, although he originally had feelings for her. Therefor he jumps out of the baloon with a parachute, the parachute being a metaphor for his safe trip back into normality and to the common folk. However, before jumping out of the baloon, Isadore clearly states, that he no longer supports Erica's methods of ruling over people and tells her so ("I can't believe you're taking everything, you're taking everything ")." Again, I do not want to flame or harp on you. But I see a lot of flaws in your analysis and frankly, it just makes a lot more sense, that this song is actually inspired by and about the book "Fear of Flying", written by a certain "Erica Jong" and about a certain "Isadora Zelda White Stollerman Wing". |
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| Incubus – Isadore Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| What AlisonFowles said. Pretty obvious actually. Everything else, except maybe the ex girlfriend theory, seems way too far fetched. | |
| Incubus – Isadore Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I've been going over these lyrics a lot myself. And I'm really impressed as to how much some of you read into them! However, I highly doubt they are as complex as most of you think. First of all, where the hell do you get the idea of erica being pregnant? Because a baloon is round? Pretty far fetched, if you ask me. Secondly, it's rather obvious who the narator is, there aren't that many options here. Just look at the first few lines: "Erica and her Isadore climbed aboard a balloon I want more than this kite will soar I've set our sights on the moon" Obviously, the narator has to be one of the two persons travelling in the baloon. Proof: First of all, "kite" in line 3 is a reference to the baloon in line 2, why would an unnamedd narator outside of Isadore and Erica want the "kite to soar"? It's much moar plausible that "I" is simply either Isadore or Erica. Secondly, and more importantly: "There's just one parachute Goodbye Erica now I see that my worst fears were in tune" "I" = the narator uses one of the parachutes, clearly indicating that he'd have to be in the baloon in order to do so...narrowing the identity of the narator down to, again, Erica and Isadore. Next, most of you seem to be kinda misled by the in general happy tune of the song. If you just read the lyrics without the music, one actually notices, that there's a lot of unhappiness, discontent and sadness in the lyrics. I picked some of them out for you in order to demonstrate: "I can't believe you're taking everything" "Blinded by their unbridled height our lovers turned dissolute" "There's just one parachute Goodbye Erica now I see that my worst fears were in tune" I don't see a lot of "fatherly" love in those lines. Maybe an angered or broken heart, but certainly not a sad lament about the death of one's lover or something like that. And to end my take on the lyrics: I'm pretty sure, that AlisonFowles nailed it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear_of_Flying_%28novel%29 The way I see it, the song is about what you want out of a one night stand (the "zipless fuck") and what you expect from someone. There are those, who want to "soar higher" (into a serious relationship) and who maybe are disappointed, because there goals are ultimately unachieveable and about how eventually, they come to terms with that, in the end realizing, that it would have been a bad idea to begin with ("Goodbye Erica now I see, that my worst fears were in tune"). |
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